Overview
Yitzhak Lewis is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University. He holds a Ph.D. (2016) in Hebrew and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He received his B.A. (2007) in Comparative Literature, Psychology, and Creative Writing, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yitzhak’s current book project, titled Games of Inheritance: Kabbalah, Tradition, and Writing in Jorge Luis Borges, is a study of marginality and mysticism as literary tropes in the writing of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. His previous book, titled A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity (SUNY Press, 2020), deals with the Russian Imperial context of early modern Hebrew and Yiddish letters. His teaching and research interests include comparative literature in Hebrew, Spanish, Yiddish, and English, literary theory, transnational writing, and world literature.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University
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2019 - Present
DKU Faculty
Recent Publications
Journal Article
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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January 25, 2021
New Historicism and alternate history raise similar questions regarding history and ideology. New Historicism reads every text as an alternate history narrative, while the narrative mode in alternate history can inspire a nuanced understanding of the criti ...
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Book
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March 1, 2020
It is a permanent disruption: “Parabasis is not enough, for Schlegel. Irony is not
just an interruption; it is (and this is the definition which he gave of irony), he says,
the “permanent parabasis,” parabasis not just at one point but at all points. ...
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Journal Article
In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
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2020
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Education, Training & Certifications
Columbia University ·
2016
Ph.D.