Hello!
I am a humanist and educator specializing in ancient eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern literature, namely, the Hebrew Bible and ancient Jewish literature in its literary and cultural context, as well as the literature of Graeco-Roman Egypt. I would call myself a narratologist, a material philologist, and a historian of the roots of the novel. I received my PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 2022. Currently, I am a researcher at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, studying the poetics of storytelling in Judean and Egyptian prose fiction from the Persian and Hellenistic periods with the European Research Council-funded project From Texts to Literature: Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible (DEMBIB).
Starting in July 2026, I will be Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of California Berkeley, in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Read more about me and my research here.
Links:
- My current project page
- More on the ERC project: From Texts to Literature: Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible (DEMBIB)
- A blog (found on this site) for keeping track of my professional work
- My personal blog for other writing (hope you like James Joyce if you click that link)