Milette Shamir

Israeli academic administrator and professor of American studies

Milette Shamir

מלאת שמיר

Shamir in 2020

Academic background
Alma mater| Brandeis University
Doctoral advisor| Michael Timo Gilmore
Academic work
Discipline| American literature and culture
Institutions| Tel Aviv University

Milette Shamir (Hebrew: מלאת שמיר) is an Israeli academic administrator and professor of American studies serving as vice president of Tel Aviv University.

## Life

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Shamir completed a Ph.D. at Brandeis University studying under Michael Timo Gilmore and Wai Chee Dimock.[1] Her 1996 dissertation was titled, The Cult of Privacy: Domestic Space and Gender in Antebellum Fiction.[2]

Shamir researches American literature and culture in the nineteenth century.[1] In 2006, she cofounded the American studies program at Tel Aviv University.[1] She served as its head for thirteen years.[1] From 2006 to 2009, she was chair of the department of English and American studies.[1] In 2012, she founded the B.A. in liberal arts, an international student program and served as its academic director until 2016.[1] From 2012 to 2015, Shamir served on the editorial board of American Literature.[1] She and Irene Tucker are the editors-in-chief of Poetics Today.[1] She is the vice president of Tel Aviv University and manages international academic collaborations.[1]

## Selected works

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* Shamir, Milette; Travis, Jennifer, eds. (2002). Boys Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-12034-0.[3]
* Shamir, Milette (2006). Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3906-5.[4]
* Shamir, Milette; Zakim, Michael, eds. (2008). Privacy: The History of a Modern Idea. Special Issue of Zmanim (in Hebrew). Open University Press.
* Ryan, Barbara; Shamir, Milette, eds. (2016). Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3417-1.[5]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Prof. Milette Shamir". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
2. ^ Shamir, Milette (1996). The Cult of Privacy: Domestic Space and Gender in Antebellum Fiction (Ph.D. thesis). Brandeis University. OCLC 35788138.
3. ^ Reviews of Boys Don't Cry:
* Hendler, Glenn (2003). "Review". Modern Fiction Studies. 49 (4): 843–844\. ISSN 0026-7724. JSTOR 26286804.
* DeAngelis, Roxana (2004). "Review". American Studies International. 42 (2/3): 267–268\. ISSN 0883-105X. JSTOR 41280091.
4. ^ Reviews of Inexpressible Privacy:
* Renza, Louis A. (2007). Shamir, Milette (ed.). "A Private Study in "Private" Studies". South Atlantic Review. 72 (3): 90–97\. ISSN 0277-335X. JSTOR 27784727.
* Williams, Susan (2006). "Review". The New England Quarterly. 79 (3): 507–510\. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 20474480.
* Applegate, Debby (2007). "Review". The Journal of American History. 93 (4): 1230–1231\. doi:10.2307/25094645. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 25094645.
* Margolis, Stacey (2006). Shamir, Milette (ed.). "The Secret Lives of Houses". Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 40 (1/2): 175–177\. doi:10.1215/ddnov.040010175. ISSN 0029-5132. JSTOR 40267690.
* Kelley, Mary (2007). "Review". The American Historical Review. 112 (3): 850–851\. doi:10.1086/ahr.112.3.850. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 40006721.
5. ^ Reviews of Bigger than Ben-Hur:
* Vechinski, Matthew James (2017). "Review". Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. 9: 115–118\. doi:10.5325/reception.9.1.0115. ISSN 2168-0604.
* Lindvall, Terry (2016). "Ben-Hur, Brian, and the Coen Brothers Walk Into a Bar: Excursions in Theology and Popular Culture". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 84 (4): 1145–1151\. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfw066. ISSN 0002-7189. JSTOR 26177745.
* Neilson, Heather (2016). "Review". Australasian Journal of American Studies. 35 (1): 159–163\. ISSN 1838-9554. JSTOR 44779782.

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