Ranen Omer-Sherman

Ranen Omer-Sherman is the JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville (UofL), where he has been a faculty member since 2014. Previously, he served as a full professor of English at the University of Miami (promoted in 2009) and taught at Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame. His research spans diasporic identities, graphic novels, Israeli/Palestinian literature, Holocaust narratives, and utopian/dystopian themes.

Education: Ph.D. in English, University of Notre Dame.

Research interests include diasporic identities, ethnic American literature, British romanticism, and representations of utopia/dystopia. His work critically examines topics like orientalism, the literature of 'passing,' and cultural displacement through Jewish American, Israeli, and Palestinian literatures.

Publications include Imagining the Kibbutz (2015), analyzing communal utopias, and Narratives of Dissent (2012), exploring war in Israeli culture. His earlier works address graphic novels and desert symbolism in Jewish writing.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned. His academic trajectory reflects a focus on transnational cultural studies and literary analysis.