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Adriana X. Jacobs is an Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She is currently on leave during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 academic years. Her research and teaching focus on Modern Hebrew and Israeli literature, contemporary poetry, translation theory, comparative poetics, and transnationalism.
Her scholarly work emphasizes the intersections of translation history, multilingualism, and cultural exchange in Hebrew literature. She is particularly known for her book Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2018), which explores translation's role in shaping Hebrew modernism.
Jacobs' publications span comparative literary studies, digital humanities, and Jewish/World literature. She has received recognition for her contributions to translation, including the 2022 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for her translation of Vaan Nguyen’s The Truffle Eye. Her current projects examine contemporary poetry of crisis and the multilingual frameworks of Hebrew literary production.
- 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Finalist
- 2022 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
At Oxford, Jacobs co-convenes the MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation and participates in the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation research program. Her work bridges academic scholarship and poetic practice, with a focus on innovative translation approaches and the global circulation of Hebrew literature.
