Naama Harel

Hebrew Language Program Coordinator and Lecturer in Hebrew Language

(212) 854-6668

Email: nh2508@columbia.edu

Naama Harel specializes in Modern Hebrew literature, Modern Jewish literature, and Israeli culture, as well as Human/Animal Studies, ecocriticism, and posthumanism. She holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew and Comparative Literature from the University of Haifa. She is the author of Kafka’s Zoopoetics: Beyond the Human/Animal Barrier (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Her current book project, The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast, explores the triangular interplay between Jewishness, gender, and animality in Modern Hebrew fiction. She has published various scholarly articles on related themes, including compassion for animals (Tza’ar ba’alei chayim) in Hebrew revival literature, metamorphosis narratives, animal fables, anthropomorphism, de-allegorization, humanimal hybridity and liminality, post-speciesist utopias, and species fluidity.