Nancy Ezer, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Hebrew
Office: 366 Humanities
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
310.206.2229 - phone
nezer@humnet.ucla.edu
EDUCATION
| 1987 | Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature at UCLA |
| 1983 | M.A. in Hebrew Literature at UCLA |
| 1970 | High School Teaching Certificate of Hebrew Literature and Language at Tel Aviv University |
| 1969 | B.A. in Hebrew Literature and Language at Tel Aviv University |
EXPERIENCE
| 1987 - present | Lecturer of Hebrew at UCLA
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| 1998, 1991 - summers | Intensive Hebrew 1ABC at UCLA |
| 1988 - 1990 | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Hebrew at University of Judaism, L.A. |
| 1980 - 1987 | Teaching Assistant of Hebrew at UCLA |
| 1979 - 1980 | Instructor of Hebrew literature and language at Yeshiva University, L.A. |
| 1969 - 1974 | Instructor of Hebrew literature and language at high schools in Israel |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2008 (forthcoming) | “Mother Daughter Dialectics: Socialization of Survival in David Grossman’s novel The Book of Internal Grammar,” Hador, The Hebrew Annual of America, V.2 |
| 2007 (forthcoming) | “Black Humor and the Grotesque in Yitzhak Laor’s Novel Ecce Homo,” Alei-Siah, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Israel |
| 2007 (forthcoming) | “The Terror Within and the Pagan Discourse: Yitzhak Laor’s Postmodern Satire And With My Spirit, My Corpse,” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature, The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, Israel. |
| 2007 (forthcoming) | “From Text to Context: The Reader and the Signification Process in Yuval Shimoni’s A Room,” Criticism and Interpretation, Bar- Ilan University Press, Israel. |
| 2005 | “Ideology, Melancholy and Postmodern Irony in Itzhak Laor’s The People, Food Fit for a King,” Alpayim, Israel. |
| 2004 | “Allegory and Simulacra in Yuval Simoni’s ‘The Art of War’,” Iton 77, V. 288, Israel. |
| 2003 | “Rena Lee’s Stories Collection: Far From Home,” Hadoar, V. 82, 2, New York. |
| 2002 | “Flirtation in S.Y. Agnon’s Shira,” History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band, ed. William Cutter and David C. Jacobson, Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University Press, Providence. |
| 2002 | “From the Melancholy of an Individual to the Melancholy of a Social Class: From Brenner’s Breakdown and Bereavement to Shabtai’s Past Continuous,” Dappim Research in Literature, Haifa University, Israel. |
| 1992 | Literature and Ideology, Papyrus Publishing House at Tel Aviv University, Israel. |
| 1987 | Workbook Hebrew 1ABC, Academic Publishing Service, UCLA |
SERVICE
| 2007 | Co-editor of Hador, the Hebrew Annual of America |
| 2006 | Sub-Committee for Literature and Culture Proposals and Sessions for NAPH International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Minnesota |
| 2005-present | Book Review Editor of Hebrew Higher Education |
| 2001-2003 | The College Board’s Modern Hebrew Test Development Committee for the SAT II exam in the Modern Hebrew |
| 1992-1995 | Captain of homeless feeding center for FAITH (Family Assistance Involving the Homeless) in Santa Monica |
| 1989-2000 | UCLA Committee for the Education Abroad Program to Israel |
AWARDS
| 2007 | Distinguished Teaching Award |
| 2007 | Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award |
| 2006, 1994 | NELC nominee for the Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award |
| 1997 | Certificate of Acknowledgment from UCLA Hillel |
| 1994 | City of Santa Monica Mayor's Commendation for service to the homeless. |
PAPERS
| 2007 | The University of Sydney Australia“The Dual Loyalty of Lea Aini’s Encyclopedic Satire Ashtoret,” presented at NAPH International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature. |
| 2006 | The University of Minnesota, “black Humor and the Grotesque in Yitzhak Laor’s Novel Ecce Homo,” presented at NAPH. |
| 2005 | Stanford University, “The Pagan Discourse in Yitzhak Laor’s And With My Spirit, My Corpse”, presented at The National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature. |
| 2004 | The University of Texas Austin, “The Terror Within: Yitzhak Laor’s And With My Spirit, My Corpse as a Postmodern Satire”, presented at NAPH. |
| 2003 | University of South Florida, "Allegory and Simulacra in Youval Shimoni's ‘The Art of War’", presented at NAPH. |
| 2002 | Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, "The Reader and the Signification Process in Youval Shimoni's A Room", presented at NAPH. |
| 2001 | Hebrew Union College, New York, "Irony on Ideology and Melancholy in Yitzhak Laor's The People, Food Fit for a King", presented at NAPH. |
| 2000 | Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, "Parody on Melancholy: Orly Castel-Bloom's Dolly City", presented at NAPH. |
| 1999 | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, "From the Melancholy of an Individual to the Melancholy of a Social Class: from Brenner's Breakdown and Bereavement to Shabtai's Past Continuous", presented at NAPH. |
| 1998 | Jewish Theological Seminary, NY, "Melancholy, Allegory, Utopia in Brenner's Breakdown and Bereavement", presented at NAPH. |
| 1997 | Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, "Depression and Melancholia in Breakdown and Bereavement by Y. H. Brenner", presented at NAPH. |
| 1996 | University of Memphis, "Flirtation in Shira by Agnon," presented at NAPH. |
| 1995 | University of Central Florida, "Friendship Among Elderly Women in the novel The Way to the Cats by Joshua Kenaz," presented at NAPH. |
| 1994 | Boston, "Beyond the Stereotype of Old Age: a gendered reading of the novel The Way to the Cats by Joshua Kenaz," presented at the Association for Jewish Studies. UC Berkeley, "The Jewish Survival Complex: a feminist reading of the novel The Book of Internal Grammar by David Grossman," presented NAPH. |
| 1993 | North Carolina, "The Mother-Daughter Dialectic," presented at the Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). |
| 1990 | Yeshiva University, New York, "Structure and Rhetoric of the novel Past Continuous by Y. Shabtai," presented at NAPH. |
| 1988 | UCLA, "The Detective Genre in Protokol by Y. Ben-Ner," presented at NAPH. |
