{"id":239,"date":"2017-11-29T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/grll\/?post_type=people&p=239"},"modified":"2024-09-18T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:52:35","slug":"neta-stahl","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/directory\/neta-stahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Neta Stahl"},"featured_media":10022,"template":"","role":[10436],"filter":[71],"class_list":["post-239","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","role-aa-faculty","filter-hebrew-and-yiddish"],"acf":[],"post_meta_fields":{"_edit_last":["726"],"_edit_lock":["1726678217:726"],"ecpt_people_alpha":["Stahl"],"ecpt_position":["Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Head of the Hebrew and Yiddish Subdivision, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of The Stulman Program in Jewish Studies"],"ecpt_degrees":["PhD, Tel Aviv University"],"ecpt_expertise":["Modern Hebrew literature, religion and literature, narrative theory, genre theory "],"ecpt_phone":["410-516-2208"],"ecpt_email":["nstahl1@jhu.edu"],"ecpt_office":["Gilman 474"],"ecpt_hours":["Fall 2024 Office Hours - T 11AM-1PM"],"ecpt_bio":["
Neta Stahl\u2019s primary research interests lie at the intersection of literature, religion, and culture. She works on a broad range of modern Hebrew writers, from S.Y Agnon and Uri Zvi Grinberg to the contemporary author Yoel Hoffmann.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
She won grants from\u00a0National Endowment for the Humanities<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture<\/em>\u00a0and received the Koret Publication<\/i> prize for first book in Jewish Studies.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n Her most recent book,\u00a0The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature<\/i> was published in March 2020 with Routledge. The book offers a panoramic and multilayered analysis of the various strategies in which modern Hebrew writers, from the turn of the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century pursued in their attempt to represent the divine in the face of metaphysical, theological, and representational challenges.<\/p>\r\n Stahl is also the author of Other and Brother: The Figure of Jesus in the 20th-Century Jewish Literary Landscape<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2013), which is an expanded English edition of her Hebrew book,\u00a0TZELEM YEHUDI<\/em> (Resling Press, 2008). \u00a0In 2017 she published her book Drawings of the Heart<\/em>: The Poetics of Yoel Hoffmann<\/em> (Reslings Press, in Hebrew). In this book, Stahl shows how basic reading norms are challenged in Hoffmann\u2019s novels. One of her main arguments is that a central motivation for Hoffmann\u2019s writing is a quasi-systematic literary study of the question: \u201cWhat is a Man?\u201d. Stahl suggests to read Hoffmann\u2019s work as a literary-anthropological project that is meant, in Hoffmann\u2019s words, to render \u201cthe precise man that we remember\u2026 the hero of this book that we\u2019re writing (and all of the books that we\u2019ve written to date).\u201d These lines are taken from two different paragraphs of Hoffmann\u2019s latest book, Moods\u00a0<\/em>(2010), which in many ways, summarizes the entire body of Hoffmann\u2019s work.<\/p>\r\n Stahl has served as the director of the Stulman Program in Jewish Studies at Johns Hopkins since 2017. In 2020 she became the co-editor of\u00a0Lyre<\/i>:\u00a0Studies in Poetry and Lyric<\/i>\u00a0(Bar-Ilan University Press), which focuses on Jewish poetry.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>"],"ecpt_publications":["Books<\/h4>\r\n