Professor Hannan Hever

Hannan Hever is Full Professor at the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University. Professor Hever taught at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Columbia University. He has published thirteen books about Modern Hebrew Literature. Among them are Producing Modern Hebrew Canon, Minority Discourse in Modern Hebrew Fiction (2002, NYU UP), The Homeland of Death is Beautiful: Aesthetics and Politics in the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg (2004, Am-Oved Publishing House) and The Hoped-for Shore (The Van Leer Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House). The collections Reading Poetry, Reviews, Essays and Articles About Hebrew Poetry (2007) and From the Beginning, Three Essays on Nativist Hebrew Poetry (2008) were published in Keshev Publishers. Until recently Hever was the co-director of the Forum on Israeli Culture and Society at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is currently a member of its Publications Committee and a co-director of the Hebrew-Arabic Literary Space research group. He is also the editor of The Black Sheep fiction series for Hakibutz-Hameuhad Publishing House.