Shiri Goren
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.; CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.; Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society and in several edited volumes, among them: Israeli Television: Global Contexts, Local Visions. (2021); Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2019) and Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture (2013). She is the co-editor of Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (Wayne State University Press, 2013) which highlights a new generation of scholars revitalizing the field of Yiddish Studies.
She teaches courses on Israeli culture and society as well as about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Her courses include 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). She currently works on developing a course on Graphic Novels in Hebrew.
She is the recipient of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award for Inclusion and Belonging (2024).
Goren is a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew and a Program Committee member of the Association of Israel Studies.
She has served as an elected senator of the inaugural Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate at Yale (2015-2020) and as a member of the Senate Executive Committee (2017-2020).
Goren is an ACTFL OPI (Oral Proficiency interview) Tester of Hebrew with full certification.
Before coming to the United States, she was a journalist and senior editor of news magazines on Israeli television and radio.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
“‘The Trump Era Has Arrived and I Finally Feel at Home’: Sayed Kashua in Illinois,” (in Hebrew. English abstract) Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society [Iyunim Bitkumat Israel] No. 36. Winter 2022. Pp. 123-147.
“Post Pandemic Pedagogy” (in Hebrew) Hebrew Higher Education Vol. 24, Spring 2022. Published online, as part of the segment: Post Pandemic Face to Face and Remote Teaching December 2021.
“Remember Them All”: Reimagining Collective Memory in Sayed Kashua’s Israeli Sitcom Arab Labor” Israeli Television: Global Contexts, Local Visions edited by Miri Talmon and Yael Levy Routledge, London and NY, 2021, Pp. 48-66.
“Arab Labor, Jewish Humor: Memory, Identity, and Creative Resistance on Israeli Prime Time Television,” Jewish Social Studies Vol. 25 No. 2 Feb 2020, pp. 107-126.
“Israeli Narratives: Charting New Territories” in Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Rachel Harris ed. Wayne State University Press, May 2019, pp. 333-338.
“The Materiality and Embodiment of Violence: Ronit Matalon’s Poetics of Responsibility” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21.2 (2019): https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3575
“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) pp. 73-93
“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 Hebrew Higher Education; The American Jewish Archives Journal; Modern Hebrew Literature; and AJS Perspectives, among other venues.