Shai Ginsburg | Scholars@Duke

Shai Ginsburg
Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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Thursday 9:30-11:30 &
Friday 11:30-1:30
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Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015

Contact Information

Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708-0414
shai.ginsburg@duke.edu
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Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2001
- M.A., Hebrew University (Israel) 1995
- B.A., Hebrew University (Israel) 1992
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2015
- Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2012
Recognition
In the News
- DEC 8, 2020 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  
  The Joy of Mastering the Challenging Languages in Asian and Middle East Studies
- JAN 15, 2020 Duke Research Blog
  
  How Board and Video Games Are at a New Frontier of Humanities Research
- FEB 25, 2019
  
  Let the Games Begin: Trinity Opens Lab to Study Game Development & Culture
- SEP 16, 2015 Duke Today
  
  “Write Down, I am an Arab”: Scholars Discuss the Story of Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish
- JAN 15, 2014 WUNC Radio
  
  Shai Ginsburg: Film series shines light on 'the real Israel'
Expertise
Subject Headings
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Israel (Country)
Research
External Relationships
- Cambridge University
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Ginsburg, S., M. Land, and J. Boyarin. Jews and the ends of theory, 2018.
  - Ginsburg, S., M. Land, and J. Boyarin. Introduction: Jews, theory, and ends, 2018.
  - Ginsburg, S. P. Rhetoric and nation: The formation of Hebrew national culture, 1880–1990, 2014.
  - Ginsburg, S., and Brian Horowitz. Bounded Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel, 1880–2010. Slavica Publishers, 2013.
  - Man, P. D. The Resistance to Theory. Translated by P. D. Shai Ginsburg. Resling, 2010.
- Academic Articles
  - Ginsburg, Shai, and Amir Banbaji. “Introduction.” Mikan, no. 20 (April 2020): 5–25.
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  - Ginsburg, Shai, and Maya Barzilai. “Rereading Hebrew Speech.” Mikan, no. 20 (April 2020): 198–227.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Pessah Ginsburg: Two Letters (Christiania 1917; London 1918).” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 29 (2017): 307–21.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Paul de Man’s Death Mask.” Mikan, no. 16 (2016): 256–64.
  - Paul de Man, S. “Autobiography as De-Facement.” Translated by S. Ginsburg. Miakn, no. 16 (2016): 244–55.
  - Ginsburg, S. P. “Alon Hilu and the Hebrew historical novel.” Shofar 33, no. 4 (June 1, 2015): 134–57. https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2015.0029.
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  - Ginsburg, S. “The Bookcase and the Language of Grace.” Mikan 14 (2014): 239–63.
  - Ginsburg, Shai. “The Physics of Being Jewish, or On Cats and Jews.” Ajs Review 35, no. 2 (November 2011): 357–64. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0364009411000444.
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  - Ginsburg, S. “Studying Violence: The Films of Avi Mograbi.” Takriv, no. 2 (2011).
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  - Ginsburg, S. “An American Reflection: Steven Spielberg, the Jewish Holocaust and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict.” American Studies 34, no. 1 (2011): 45–76.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Signs and wonders: Fetishism and hybridity in Homi Bhabha's the location of culture.” New Centennial Review 9, no. 3 (December 1, 2009): 229–50. https://doi.org/10.1353/ncr.0.0082.
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  - Ginsburg, S. “The Social Function of Israeli Cinema.” Zeek, 2009, 73–79.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Politics and Letters: On the Rhetoric of the Nation in Pinsker and Ahad Ha-Am.” Prooftexts 29, no. 2 (2009): 173–173. https://doi.org/10.2979/pft.2009.29.2.173.
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  - Ginsburg, S. “Literature, Territory, Criticism: Brenner and the "Erets-Israeli" Genre.” Theory and Criticism, no. 30 (2007): 39–62.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Truth in the Land of Israel: On the Notion of Truth in the Work of Ahad Ha-‘Am.” Edited by Hannan Hever, 2007, 260–75.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Between Language and Land: Moshe Smilansky’s ‘Hawaja Nazar’.” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 20 (2006): 221–35.
  - Ginsburg, S. “"The rock of our very existence": Anton Shammas's Arabesques and the rhetoric of Hebrew literature.” Comparative Literature 58, no. 3 (January 1, 2006): 187–204. https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-3-187.
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  - Ginsburg, S. “Between Memory and History: Saul Friedlander as an Autobiographical Writer and as a Historian.” Theory and Criticism 17 (2000): 217–22.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Hamlet—In search of Language.” Efes Shtayim, no. 3 (1995): 153–57.
- Book Sections
  - Ginsburg, Shai. “From Here to Elsewhere and Back in Israeli-Hebrew Children’s Literature.” In Since 1948 Israeli Literature in the Making. SUNY Press, 2020.
  - Ginsburg, S., Martin Land, and Jonathan Boyarin. “Jews, Theory, and Ends.” In Jews and the Ends of Theory, edited by Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, and Jonathan Boyarin, Jews and the Ends of Theory:1–26. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Poetry and Conflict: on Civility, Citizenship and Criticism.” In Toward a Critical Rhetoric on the Israel-Palestine Conflict, edited by S. Matthew Abraham, 152–74. Anderson, S.C.: Parlor Press, 2015.
  - Ginsburg, S. “The City and the Body: Jerusalem in Uri Tsvi Greenberg’s Vision of One of the Legions.” In Jerusalem Across the Disciplines, edited by Miriam Elman and Madelaine Adelman, 2014.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Class and Historical Anxiety: The Rhetoric of Class in David Ben-Gurion’s and Meir Ya’ari’s Thought (in Hebrew).” In Literature and Inequality, edited by Amir Banbaji and Hannan Hever. The Van Leer Institute, 2014.
  - Ginsburg, S. “S. Yizhar’s Khirbet Khizeh and the rhetoric of conflict.” In Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice, 165–79, 2014.
  - Ginsburg, S. “War and Peace in Israel: Hebrew Literature and Russian Literature in Hebrew, 1942–60.” In Bounded Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel, 1880–2010, edited by Brian Horowitz and Shai Ginsburg, 131–50. Slavica Publishers, 2013.
  - Ginsburg, S. “From Ziklag One Cannot See Khirbet Khizeh.” In The Palestinian Nakba in Cinema and Literature, 23–31, 2012.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Love in Search of Belief, Belief in Search of Love.” In The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema, 371–76, 2011.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Rhetoric and Criticism: The Work and Life of Paul de Man.” In The Resistance to Theory, by Paul de Man (Hebrew Translation), 2010.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Truth in the Land of Israel: On the Notion of Truth in the Work of Ahad Ha-‘Am.” In A Moment of Birth: Studies in Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Honor of Dan Miron, edited by Hannan Hever, 260–75. Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2007.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Between Myth and History: Moshe Shamir’s He Walked in the Fields.” In Literature and Nation in the Middle East, edited by Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi, 110–27. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
- Book Reviews
  - Ginsburg, Shai. “Tangled Roots: The Emergence of Israeli Culture,” December 2020.
  - Ginsburg, Shai. “Mothers, Fathers, and the Hebrew Literary Canon.” Novel. Duke University Press, August 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7547020.
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  - Ginsburg, Shai. “Belonging in Israel/Palestine: Theory and Literature.” Novel. Duke University Press, May 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7330326.
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  - Ginsburg, Shai. “Literature, Colonialism, and Empire. Rev. of To Inherit the Land, to Conquer the Space: The Beginning of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz-Israel by Hannan Hever.” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature, 2017.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Rev. of Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion, edited by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg.” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, 2015.
  - Ginsburg, S. “Jews and Cinema, Stereotypes, and Self-Images. Rev. of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema by Nathan Abrams.” H Judaic, H Net Reviews, n.d.
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  - Ginsburg, S. “Literature, Colonialism, and Empire.” Rev. of To Inherit the Land, to Conquer the Space: The Beginning of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz-Israel by Hannan Hever.” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature, n.d.
- Journal Issues
  - Ginsburg, Shai, and Amir Banbaji. “Hebrew Literary Thought.” Mikan, April 2020.
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Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Presentations & Appearances
Service to the Profession
- Participant. Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism. Duke Office of Faculty Advancement. January 11, 2021 - January 14, 2021 2021

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Subject Headings

Global Scholarship

Expertise

External Relationships

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Book Reviews

Journal Issues

Recent Courses

Presentations & Appearances

Service to the Profession