A. Mark Clarfield, MD, Director, Medical School for International Health, Ben-Gurion University

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Amy L. Blair, Marquette University, "Tasting and Testing Books"

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Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University

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Christopher N. Phillips, Lafayette College, "Believe What You Read: The Hymnbook as Postsecular

Technology"

 

Danielle Rubin, Ben-Gurion University, "A Legitimate Field for Human Research?: Biblical Fiction in the

Antebellum U.S."

 

David M. Stewart, National Central University, Taiwan, "Bartleby in the White House"

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Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University, "'Here We Are': English Instruction on Israeli Educational Television

in the Early 1970s"

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Gillian Silverman, University of Colorado, Denver, "Reading in the Flesh"

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Iris Parush, Ben-Gurion University, "The Writing Revolution and the Culture of the Book in Nineteenth

Century East European Jewish Society"

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Krystyna Mazur, University of Warsaw, "From the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to Weak Theory: Reading

Strategies in Times of Crisis"

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​Leah Price, Harvard University, "Bibliotherapy vs. Biblioactivism"

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Marija Dalbello, Rutgers University, "Compulsory Literacy for Immigrants: Tests and Paperwork at Ellis

Island"

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​​Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London, "Reading by Ear"

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Michal Simchon, David Yellin Academic College of Education, "Bibliotherapy"

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​Nir Evron, Tel-Aviv University, "Our Tribal Humanities"

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Olga Kuminova, Ben-Gurion University, "Reading Literature with Medical Students"

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Philip Goldstein, University of Delaware, "Aesthetic Theory: From Adorno to Reception Study"

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​​Ray Schrire, Hebrew University, "Not Reading the Classics in Elizabethan Education"

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​Sonia Weiner, Tel-Aviv University, "Reading Frames: Photography, Comics and Race"

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​Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University, "Political Theologies of Reading"

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Tess Chakkalakal, Bowdoin Colloege, "Reading and Realism: Charles Chesnutt's Diary"

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​​​​​​Yael Ben-zvi, Ben-Gurion University, "Indian Nullification of American Literature?: Apess and the Politics of

Recognition"

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Yael Shapira, Bar-Ilan University, "Beyond Catherine Morland; or, Doing Right by the Late Eighteenth-

Century Gothic Reader"

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Zohar Weiman-Kelman, Ben-Gurion University, "Closer Reading: An Erotic Philology of Yiddish"