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Galili Shahar

Germanic Studies
gshahar@ufl.edu
(352)392-2101 ext 202

Expertise

German cultural history, German-Jewish literature and thought, comparative literature (German, Austrian, Israeli), theories of modernism, aesthetics and theatricality.

Biography

Galili Shahar is an associate professor of German Studies and an affiliate faculty in the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida. He has been previously a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a guest professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. His major fields of research are dedicated to German cultural history, philosophy and theatre, and to German-Jewish and Israeli discourses of literature. He is the author of Verkleidungen der Aufklärung: Narrenspiele und Weltanschauung in der Goethezeit (2006), theatrum judaicum: Denkspiele im deutsch-jüdischen Diskurs der Moderne (2007), and Kafka's Wound (2007, forthcoming).

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