Shiri Goren
Curriculum Vitae
Shiri Goren is the Director of the Hebrew Program. She joined Yale’s faculty in 2006. Her teaching and research focus on contemporary literature, film, and other cultural production in Israel/Palestine, Yiddish literature, second language acquisition, and the pedagogy of inclusive teaching of culture.
Her work has appeared in a variety of venues including Jewish Social Studies(Link is external) ; CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture(Link is external); Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society(Link downloads file) and in several edited volumes, among them: Israeli Television: Global Contexts, Local Visions(Link is external) (2021); Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict(Link is external) (2019) and Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture(Link is external) (2013). She is the co-editor of Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture(Link is external) (Wayne State University Press, 2013) which highlights a new generation of scholars revitalizing the field of Yiddish Studies.
She received her PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University (2011). She teaches courses on Israeli culture and society as well as about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Her courses include Reading Between the Panels: Visual Narratives and the Culture of Hebrew Graphic Novels; Israeli Society in Film; Dynamics of Israeli Culture; Conversational Hebrew: Israeli Media; Israeli Narratives [English]; as well as Hebrew language courses (Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced).
Goren is the recipient of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award for Inclusion and Belonging (2024). She currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Before coming to the United States, she was a journalist and senior editor of news magazines and programs on Israeli television and radio.
Recent Peer Reviewed Publications
“Remember Them All: Reimagining Collective Memory in Sayed Kashua’s Israeli Sitcom Arab Labor,” in As Seen on Israeli Television: Global Contexts, Local Vision, edited by Miri Talmon (volume under review by the University of Texas Press).
“Humor, Violence and Creative Resistance in the Israeli TV Show Arab Labor” (in Hebrew). Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society, [Iyunim Bitkumat Israel] No. 24, December 2014.
“War at Home: Literary Engagements with the Israeli Political Crisis in two Novels by Gabriela Avigur-Rotem.” In Rachel Harris and Ranen Omer-Sherman eds. Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture (Detroit: Wayne state UP, 2013), 187-204.
“Writing on the Verge of Catastrophe: David Vogel’s Last Work of Prose.” In Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren and Hannah Pressman eds. Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (Detroit: Wayne state UP, 2013), 29-45.
Other articles and reviews have appeared in The American Jewish Archives Journal; Modern Hebrew Literature; and AJS Perspectives, among other venues.