SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE


Chanita Goodblatt
Dept. of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

M.A.      1982 Hebrew University Department of Comparative Literature cum laude
              Advisor: Prof. Shimon Sandbank
              Title of Thesis: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Abraham Shlonsky's Poems of the
              Land of Israel: A Study of Man's Relationship to Nature and the Divine

Ph.D.     1990 Hebrew University Department of English 
              Advisor: Prof. Shimon Sandbank
              Title of Thesis: The Creative Process in the Works of Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas

Education

Professional Activities (Selected)

2000- : Member, Executive Committee. Ben-Gurion University Forum on Medieval and Early Modern
            Culture
2002-:  Member, Organizing Committee. Conference on "Internet, Intertext." Ben-Gurion University
2002-2003 Member, Organizing Committee. Conference on "Jewish-Christian Intercultural Influences in
            the 16th and 17th Centuries."
2004-2005: Organizer. Session on "Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early Modern England."
           2005 Conference of the Renaissance Society of America
2004-2005: Organizer. International Workshop on "Religious Cultures in the Sixteenth and
           Seventeenth Centuries"
Publications (Selected)

Glicksohn, Joseph and Chaita Goodblatt.  1993.  "Metaphor and Gestalt:  Interaction Theory
          Revisted."  Poetics Today  14: 83-97.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  1996.  "An Intertextual Discourse on Sin and Salvation:  John Donne's
          Sermon on Psalm 51."  Renaissance and Reformation  20: 23-40.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  2000.  "Women, Demons and the Rabbi's Son:  Narratology and 'A Story
          from Worms'."  Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
          
Special Issue on Medieval Jewish Culture.  12: 231-53.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  2000.  "Christian Hebraists."  In Reader's Guide to Judaism. Ed. Michael
          Terry.  100-11.  Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  2000.  "In Other Words: Breaking the Monologue in Whitman, Williams
          and Hughes."  Language and Literature 9: 1-17. 
Goodblatt, Chanita.  2001.  "Adding an Empirical Dimension to the Study of Poetic Metaphor."
          Journal of Literary Semantics 30: 167-80.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  2002.  "Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson."  St. Hugh's College Newsletter.
          9:6.
Goodblatt, Chanita and Joseph Glicksohn.  2002.  "Metaphor Comprehension as Problem
          Solving:  An Online Study of the Reading Process."  Style. Special Issue on Cognitive
          Approaches to Figurative Language.  36: 428-45.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  2003.  "From 'Tav' to the Cross:  John Donne's Protestant Exegesis and
          Polemics."  In John Donne and the Protestant Reformation:  New Perspectives. Ed.
          Mary Papazian.  221-46.  Detroit:  Wayne State UP.
Goodblatt, Chanita and Joseph Glicksohn.  2003.  "From Practical Criticism to the Practice of
          Literary Criticism:  Metaphor Comprehension Online."  Poetics Today 24: 207-236.

Research Fellowships and Grants

1998            Office of the Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.
                    Ben-Gurion University
                    Christian Hebraism and the English Reformation
2000            Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
                    'Hebraica Veritas': Christian Hebraists, Jews, and the Study of Judaism in
                    Early Modern Europe.
                    "John Donne and Christian Hebraism"
2002-2004   Israel Science Foundation
                    Research Project:  John Donne and Christian Hebraism
2004-2005   Israel Science Foundation International Symposium:  Religious Cultures
                    in the Early Modern Period
2005            The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University James M.
                    Osborn Fellowship in English Literature and History: "Engendering the Canon
                    of Early Modern England: Percy Simpson and Evelyn M. Simpson"

Recent Lectures

Goodblatt, Chanita.  2000.  "Creating Man and Woman:  Donne's Sermons on the Genesis Narrative."                         Fifteenth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society.  University of Southern Mississippi.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  2001.  "S/He Walked in the Fields:  Poetry of the Land of Israel in the 1920's."             Conference on "Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Jewish Experience." 
           Bar-Ilan University.
Goodblatt, Chanita and Mayer I. Gruber.  2002.  "Echoes of Jewish Exegesis in English Reformation
            Psalm Translations".  The 18th Biennial Barnard College Medieval/ Renaissance Conference: 
           "David in Medieval and Renaissance Culture." New York.
Goodblatt, Chanit.  2002.  "The University is a Paradise, Rivers of Knowledge are There':
            Editing John Donne's Sermons."  Seventeenth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society.              University of
Southern Mississippi.
Goodblatt, Chanita and Joseph Glicksohn.  2002.  "Workshop: Metaphor in Poetry:  Text and Reading             Analysis."  Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association. 
            Univeristy of Birmingham, England.
Goodblatt, Chanita and Gail Shuster-Bouskilla. 2002.  "Internet Technology in the Teaching of
            
Lyric Poetry." In "Symposium: Text, Technology and Understanding." Seventeenth Annual             Conference of SCRIPT: Israeli Association for Literacy.  Bar-Ilan University.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  2003.  "Uri Zvi Greenberg Vehamusag 'Bayit Le'umi Yehudi" [Uri Zvi Greenberg
            and the Concept of a "Jewish National Homeland"].  The Eighteenth Interuniversity Conference
            for the Study of Hebrew Literature. Bar-Ilan University.
Goodblatt, Chanita and Mayer I. Gruber.  2003.  "A Booke of Praise and Thanksgiving': John Donne's             Sermons on the Penitential Psalm 6."  Jewish-Christian Intercultural Influences in the 16th and
            17th Centuries.  Ben-Gurion University.
Glicksohn, Joseph and Chanita Goodblatt.  2003.  "Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Cognitive Psychology
           
and Poetic Metaphor."  The 20th International Conference on Literature and Psychology.
            University of Greenwich, England.
Goodblatt, Chanita, Ann Hurley and Jeffrey Johnson. Organizers. 2003. "Workshop: Teaching about
             Marriage and Churching Ceremonies in Early Modern England." Conference on: Attending to
             Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities. University of Maryland. Attending to
             Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities.
Ed. Joan Hartman and Adele Seeff.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  "The Words Expressly are 'A Pound of Flesh'":  Christian Hebraism in Early
             Modern England 
             2004 [Hebrew] Study Day in Honor of Mayer I. Gruber. Ben-Gurion University.
             2005  Session on "Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early Modern England."  Renaissance
             Society of America Conference.  Cambridge University.

Goodblatt, Chanita.  2004.  "Rabelais and Donne: Imagined Libraries."  Conference on Book
             History.  Ben-Gurion University.
Goodblatt, Chanita.  2004.  "Uri Zvi Greenberg and Zionist Rhetoric of the 1920's." Association for
             Israel Studies.  Hebrew University.