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Naama Harel is a Lecturer in Hebrew Language and Coordinator of the Hebrew Language Program at Columbia University, affiliated with the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew and Comparative Literature from the University of Haifa. Her research focuses on Modern Hebrew literature, Jewish literature, Israeli culture, and interdisciplinary topics like Human/Animal Studies, ecocriticism, and posthumanism.
Dr. Harel authored Kafka’s Zoopoetics: Beyond the Human/Animal Barrier (2020), exploring boundaries between humans and animals through Kafka’s works. Her current project, The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast, examines intersections of Jewishness, gender, and animality in Modern Hebrew fiction. Her articles address themes such as animal fables, anthropomorphism, post-speciesist utopias, and species fluidity in literary contexts.
Her work integrates cultural theory with ethical inquiry, particularly around compassion for animals in revival literature. The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, her academic home, supports interdisciplinary scholarship in Jewish and Israeli studies.
