Publications

Book Projects

Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the College Classroom ed. Rachel S. Harris (under review Wayne State Press)

Casting a Giant Shadow: The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema eds. Rachel S. Harris and Dan Chyutin (under review Indiana University Press)

Rachel S. Harris: Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema (Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2017)

Rachel S. Harris:  An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014)

Narratives of Dissent: War in Israeli Arts and Culture Eds. Rachel S. Harris and Ranen Omer- Sherman (Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2013)

PUBLICATIONS: Editor Journal Special Issue
Guest Editors Rachel S. Harris and Anna P Ronell “Russian-Jewish Diaspora Post-1970” The Journal of Jewish Identities Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan, 2011) (Wrote 1500 word introduction)

Guest Editor Rachel S. Harris “The Jewish Woman and Her Body” Nashim 23, Spring-Fall 2012 (Wrote 3200 word introduction, pp5-11)

Guest Editor Rachel S. Harris “Hebrew Literature Now: Israeli Writers of the 21st Century” Shofar 33.4 (2015) (Introduction pp1-14)

PUBLICATIONS: Articles and Chapters in Books
Articles
“Not Borrowing Enough: Eran Riklis’ A Borrowed Identity” Sayed Kashua ed. Adia Mendelson Maoz (Open University, Israel forthcoming)

“Palestinian Counter-Hero: Samir El-youssef’s Anglo-Palestinian fiction” Telos FORTHCOMING 2017

“Israeli Literature in the 21st Century – The Transcultural Generation: An Introduction” Shofar 33.4 (2015): 1-14 (for guest edited special issue)

“Between the Backpack and the Tent: Home, Zionism, and a New Generation in

Eshkol Nevo’s Novels Homesick and Neuland” Shofar 33.4 (2015): 36-59

“Hebraizing the Arab-Israeli: Language and Identity in Ayman Sikseck’s To Jaffa and Sayed Kashua’s Second Person Singular” JOJI 2014 Vol. 7 No. 2, 35-58

“Ahoti Hayafa (2011): Magical Realism and Marginalisation in The World of the Mizrachi Woman” Jewish Literature and Magical Realism – special issue of Symbolism 12/13 eds. Axel Stahler 262-278

“Parallel Lives: Palestinian, Druze and Jewish Women in Recent Israeli Cinema on the Conflict, Free Zone, Syrian Bride and Lemon Tree.” Shofar 32:1 (Fall 2013) 79-102

“Samson’s Suicide: Death and the Israeli Literary Canon” Israel Studies Vol. 17, No 3 (Fall 2012) 67-91

“Death and Decay: Urban Topoi in Literary Depictions of Tel Aviv” Israel Studies Vol. 14, No. 3 (Fall 2009) 75-93

“Forgetting the Forgotten Ones: The Case of Haim Gouri’s“Hanishkahim“” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Vol. 8, Issue 2. 2009, 199-214

Chapters in Books:
“Women on Screen: Teaching Gender But Not History” in Teaching the Arab Israeli Conflict in the College Classroom ed. Rachel S. Harris (Currently under review with Wayne State Press)

“New Frontiers: The Israeli Western” Casting a Giant Shadow: The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema eds. Rachel S. Harris and Dan Chyutin (Currently under review with Indiana University Press)

“No Heroes in A Cycle of Violence: Collaborators, Perpetrators and the never ending terror of the Arab-Israeli conflict” Terrorism and Literature ed. Peter C. Herman Cambridge University Press FORTHCOMING

“Lehitashknez (Passing) in Contemporary Arab-Israeli Hebrew Fiction ” in Modern Arabic Literatures in Hebrew eds. Hannan Hever and Omri Greenberg [Hebrew] FORTHCOMING

“Hebrewism and Israeli Culture: Language, Dance, Music and Film” Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century eds. S. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017)

“From Feminist to Housewife and Back Again: Orthodoxy and Modernity in American Jewish Women’s Writing” The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Anglophone Jewish Fiction eds, David Brauner and Axel Stahler  (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) 76-89

“No Place Like Home: Arab-Israelis, Contemporary Fiction, and an Arab-Hebrew identity” in The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel eds. Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm (Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2014) 327-351

“The History of Israel” Cary Nelson, Rachel S Harris, and Kenneth W. Stein in The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel eds. Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm (Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2014) 385-440

“A Woman’s War: The Gulf War and Popular Women’s Culture in Israel” Narratives of Dissent: War in Israeli Arts and Culture eds. Rachel S. Harris and Ranen Omer-Sherman, (Wayne State Press, 2013) 317-335

“Death and Decay: Urban Topoi in Literary Depictions of Tel Aviv” Republished in Tel Aviv: The First Century; Visions, Designs and Actualities, eds. Maoz Azaryahu and Ilan Troen,(Indiana University Press, 2011) 248-267

Review Essays:
“Through the Lens of Israeli Cinema: A Review Essay” Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal Vol. 3, No. 2, Article 5. 2015 Available at: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/jewishfilm/vol3/iss2/5

“Cosmopolitan, Diasporic and Transnational: The Flourishing of Hebrew Modernism” Modernism/Modernity, Vol. 21. No. 1 (2014) pp 361–68

“Israel: Finding the Levant within the Mediterranean” The Levantine Review (Issue 1: No 1) Spring 2012 (Review Essay) (6000 words)

“Casting Lots to Nonstop City: Current Discourse on the Cultural History, Identity and Construction of Tel Aviv” Journal of Jewish Identities Issue 1, No.1 (Jan 2008) pp89-96 (Review Essay)