Doctorate (2005), The University of Texas at Austin; M.A. (1991), The University of Texas at Austin; B.F.A. (1983) Tel Aviv University, Israel.
World Area Of Focus:
• Asia 50%-74% • Middle East 50%-74% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 10%-24%
Languages:
• Arabic (limited working proficiency) • Hebrew (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Israeli Cinema; Middle Eastern cinema; Ethnicity and repesentation; Modern Hebrew; Film Studies; Filmmaking.
Relevant Experience:
• Lived and worked in Israel/Palestine; conferences and lectures in Israel, Mexico, and Jordan; filmmaking in Israel/Palestine and Poland
Distinctions:
• 2016-2016 Academic Excellence Award, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. 2016
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
Four theses
Relevant Courses Taught:
• Advanced Hebrew (HEBR 305-306) • ASIA 435, The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa. • Language, Exile, and Homeland in Zionist Thoughts and Practice (HEBR 436) • Israeli Cinema: Nation, Gender, and Ethnicity (ASIA 235) • Israeli Culture and Society (ASIA 60)
Recent Publications:
• 2017 “Five Broken Cameras and the Metonymic Sixth Camera: Time, Narrative, and Subjectivities in Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras.” National, International, and Transnational: Israeli Cinema Beyond its Borders. Rachel S. Harris and Dan Chyutin, eds. Indiana University Press. [Forthcoming]
• 2014 Shemer, Yaron. “Salvage Cinema: Remembering, Memory, and Identity in the Films of Second Generation Mizrahi Immigrants.” Journal of Palestine Studies (forthcoming).
• 2014 “From Chahine’s Alexandria…Why to Salata Baladi and Jews of Egypt: Rethinking Egyptian Jews Cosmopolitanism, Belonging, and Nostalgia in Cinema.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. [Accepted, 30 pages]
• 2013 Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel. The University of Michagan Press, 2013.
• 2012 “The Burden of Self-Representation: Reflections on Shhurand Its Legacy for Contemporary Mizrahi Films in Israel.” Journal of Levantine Studies. 2012. 2:2, 39-62
• 2011 “Trajectories of Mizrahi Cinema: Identities in Motion.” Yaron Peleg and Miri Talmon-Bohm, eds., 2011. University of Texas Press, 120-133
• 2007 Shemer, Yaron. “Victimhood, Protest, and Agency in Contemporary Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) Films in Israel.” Scope 8 (2007).
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