About
Eitan Bar-Yosef is Professor of English Literature at the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. A literary scholar and cultural historian, his work examines the affinities between Postcolonial Studies, Judaic Studies, and Cultural Studies in both the British and Israeli contexts. His publications include The Holy Land in English Culture, 1799–1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism (2005); A Villa in the Jungle: Africa in Israeli Culture (in Hebrew, 2013); and articles in various journals, including Representations, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Theater Journal, and Jewish Social Studies. Former editor (2013–2019) of Teoria u-vikoret (Theory and Criticism), Israel’s leading journal of critical theory, Bar-Yosef’s current research project explores the history of Israeli Educational Television, tracing the creative, sometimes subversive ways in which the station’s output reflected Israel’s dramatic transformation during the long 1970s.
