Cv | Ruben Borg

CV & Publications

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2023—: Chair, English Department, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2019—: Associate Professor in English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2016—: Visiting Professor at the Centre for European Modernism, University of Perugia, Italy.
2014—2020: Chair, English Department, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2013—: Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2013-2014: Associate Professor in English Literature, at the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Tromso, Norway.
2007—: Lecturer in English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2004: Adjunct teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, English Department.

PUBLICATIONS

Books and edited volumes:

Flann O'Brien: Gallows Humour. With Paul Fagan (eds.) Cork: Cork University Press, 2020.
Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019.
Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority. With Paul Fagan and John McCourt (eds.) Cork: Cork University Press, 2017.
Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies. With Paul Fagan and Werner Huber (eds.) Cork: Cork University Press, 2014.
The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida. Continuum Literary Studies. London: Continuum, 2007.

ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWD JOURNALS:
“Three Articles of Posthuman Modernism: The Metacinema of Marcel L'Herbier (and Friends).” Modernism/modernity (Print +) 4.4 (March 2020).
“Past, Passivity, Passion: Deleuze’s Allegorical Drama.” CounterText 5.1 (2019): 70-88.
“Figures of the Earth: Non-human Phenomenology in Joyce.” Humanities 6.3 (2017).
“Love in Joyce: A Philosophical Apprenticeship.” Joyce Studies Annual (2014): 42-62.
“Putting the Impossible to Work: Beckettian Afterlife and the Posthuman Future of Humanity.” Journal of Modern Literature 35.4 (Summer 2012): 163-180.
“Ethics of the Event: The Apocalyptic Turn in Modernism,” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 9.1 (January 2011): 188-201.
“Between Fact and Fiction: The Nature of Events in Joyce and Beckett,” Narrative 18.2 (May 2010): 179-198.
“Mirrored Disjunctions: On a Deleuzo-Joycean Theory of the Image,” Journal of Modern Literature 33.2 (Spring 2010): 131-148.
“Neologizing in Finnegans Wake: Beyond a Typology of the Wakean Portmanteau,” Poetics Today 28.1 (Spring 2007): 143-164.
“A Duplicated Life: On Virtuality in John Banville’s Mefisto,” Modern Fiction Studies 55.4 (Winter 2009): 665-684.
“Providence in the Marketplace: Vico’s Philology and the Immanence of Language in Joyce’s Later Narrative,” Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 9 (2008): 107-126.
“Two Ps in a Pod: On Time in Finnegans Wake,” Journal of Modern Literature 29.1 (Fall 2005): 76-93.
“A Fadograph of Whome: Topographies of Mourning in Finnegans Wake,” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 1.2 (June 2003): 87-110.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUME:
"Beckett’s Invisible Matter: Echo, Technology and Posthuman Affect." In Samuel Beckett and Technology, ed. Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar and Mark Nixon (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021): 224-239.
“Modernismo europeo: come nasce e che cosa vuol dire il concetto.” In Il romanzo modernista europeo: autori, forme, questioni, ed. Massimiliano Tortora and Annalisa Volpone (Rome: Carocci Editore, 2019), pp. 21-43. [In Italian]
“Editors’ Introduction,” co-authored with Paul Fagan and John McCourt. In Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority. Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan and John McCourt (eds). (Cork: Cork University Press, 2017): 1-18.
“Reading Flann with Paul: Modernism and the Trope of Conversion,” in Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority. Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan and Werner Huber (eds). (Cork: Cork University Press, 2017): 219-229.
“Beckett and Deleuze: Tragic Thinkers.” Deleuze and Beckett, ed. Stephen Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite (London: Palgrave, 2015): 139-206.
“Deleuze on Genre: Modernity between the Tragic and the Novel,” in Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature, ed. Ian Buchanan et al. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015): 99-115.
“Editors’ Introduction,” co-authored with Paul Fagan and Werner Huber. In Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies. Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan and Werner Huber (eds). (Cork: Cork University Press, 2014): 1-16.
“Surviving in Borges: The Memory of Objects after the End of the World,” in Cy-Borges: Memories of Posthumanism in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges, ed. Stefan Herbrechter et al. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2009): 168-196.
“Deconstruction and the Undoing of Diplomacy.” Co-authored with Ivan Callus. In Language and Diplomacy, ed. Jovan Kurbalija and Hannah Slavik (Malta: DiploProjects, 2001): 233-260.

REVIEWS AND SHORT ARTICLES
Ruben Borg, 'Review of Katherine Ebury, Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890–1950,' The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 5, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 1–5.
“Beckett's Insistent Bodies.” Review of Derval Tubridy, Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity. Journal of Modern Literature 4.3 (Spring 2021): 184-187.
Review of Jean-Michel Rabate, The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns. James Joyce Quarterly 53.3-4 (Spring, Summer 2016): 384-387.
“Literary Modernism.” Genealogies of the Posthuman. Critical Posthumanism Network. 2017. Web. [Encyclopedia Entry]
“The Parish Review: Editors’/Founders’ Note.” Co-authored with Paul Fagan. The Parish Review 1.1 (Summer 2012): 1-11.
“Working with History, Working with Taboo: a Comparative Review of Two Works of Joyce criticism.” Journal of Modern Literature 31.2 (Winter 2008): 149-155. Review.
“Entwining our Arts,” review of Christa Maria Lerm-Hayes, Joyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2004). Journal of Modern Literature 29.4 (Summer 2006): 189-193. Review.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
July 2021: 110 Myles: Flann O'Brien at a Distance. (Online conference).
July 2017: Acting Out: The 4^th International Flann O’Brien Conference (Salzburg, Austria).
September 2015: Metamorphoses: The 3^rd International Flann O’Brien Conference (Prague, Czech Republic).
June 2013: Problems with Authority: The 2^nd International Flann O’Brien Conference (Rome, Italy).
October 2011: Posthumanism and Transhumanism. An international conference at the Van Leer Institute, with Icon Tel-Aviv and Tel-Aviv University.
July 2011: 100 Myles: The International Flann O’Brien Centenary Conference (Vienna, Austria).

EDITORIAL WORK AND ADVISORY BOARDS
The Parish Review (co-editor)
Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (associate editor)
Countertext (advisory editor)
Journal of Modern Literature (advisory editor)

PEER REVIEW
2018-2021: Manuscript evaluations for Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, and Brill
2015-2021: Journal of Modern Literature (12 articles)
2021: Textual Practice
2017: Modernist Cultures
2017: International Journal of English Studies
2014-2017: James Joyce Quarterly (2 articles)
2014: Contemporary Drama
2012: Subjectivity
2010: Deleuze Studies

DOCTORAL CANDIDATES
Lasse Jensen. Metaphysics in a Secular Age: Language, Tradition and Belief in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. 2020.
Yaeli Greenblatt. The Typographic Novel: Visual Materiality and the Joycean Image. 2021.
Talia Abu. Guilt and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. 2022
Tali Banin. Modernism and the Search for Posthuman Intimacy. In Progress.

RECENT COURSES
Spotlight Theory: Posthumanism (M.A. Seminar)
Dante and Modernism (M.A. seminar)
Narcissus on the Liffey: Image and Identity in Six Modern Irish Novelists (M.A. seminar)
Paranoid Hermeneutics (M.A. seminar)
Time out of Joint: Ghostly Temporalities in Literature, Philosophy and Film (M.A. seminar)
Alive and Kicking: The Novel after the Death of the Novel (M.A. seminar)
T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent (B.A. seminar at UiT)
Love in Joyce: A Philosophical Apprenticeship (M.A. seminar at UiT)
European Modernism (Graduate Seminar at CEMS, University of Perugia)

CV & Publications

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2023—: Chair, English Department, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2019—: Associate Professor in English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2016—: Visiting Professor at the Centre for European Modernism, University of Perugia, Italy.

2014—2020: Chair, English Department, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2013—: Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2013-2014: Associate Professor in English Literature, at the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Tromso, Norway.

2007—: Lecturer in English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2004: Adjunct teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, English Department.

PUBLICATIONS

Books and edited volumes:

Flann O'Brien: Gallows Humour. With Paul Fagan (eds.) Cork: Cork University Press, 2020.

Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019.

Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority. With Paul Fagan and John McCourt (eds.) Cork: Cork University Press, 2017.

Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies. With Paul Fagan and Werner Huber (eds.) Cork: Cork University Press, 2014.

The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida. Continuum Literary Studies. London: Continuum, 2007.

ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWD JOURNALS:

“Three Articles of Posthuman Modernism: The Metacinema of Marcel L'Herbier (and Friends).” Modernism/modernity (Print +) 4.4 (March 2020).

“Past, Passivity, Passion: Deleuze’s Allegorical Drama.” CounterText 5.1 (2019): 70-88.

“Figures of the Earth: Non-human Phenomenology in Joyce.” Humanities 6.3 (2017).

“Love in Joyce: A Philosophical Apprenticeship.” Joyce Studies Annual (2014): 42-62.

“Putting the Impossible to Work: Beckettian Afterlife and the Posthuman Future of Humanity.” Journal of Modern Literature 35.4 (Summer 2012): 163-180.

“Ethics of the Event: The Apocalyptic Turn in Modernism,” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 9.1 (January 2011): 188-201.

“Between Fact and Fiction: The Nature of Events in Joyce and Beckett,” Narrative 18.2 (May 2010): 179-198.

“Mirrored Disjunctions: On a Deleuzo-Joycean Theory of the Image,” Journal of Modern Literature 33.2 (Spring 2010): 131-148.

“Neologizing in Finnegans Wake: Beyond a Typology of the Wakean Portmanteau,” Poetics Today 28.1 (Spring 2007): 143-164.

“A Duplicated Life: On Virtuality in John Banville’s Mefisto,” Modern Fiction Studies 55.4 (Winter 2009): 665-684.

“Providence in the Marketplace: Vico’s Philology and the Immanence of Language in Joyce’s Later Narrative,” Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 9 (2008): 107-126.

“Two Ps in a Pod: On Time in Finnegans Wake,” Journal of Modern Literature 29.1 (Fall 2005): 76-93.

“A Fadograph of Whome: Topographies of Mourning in Finnegans Wake,” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 1.2 (June 2003): 87-110.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUME:

"Beckett’s Invisible Matter: Echo, Technology and Posthuman Affect." In Samuel Beckett and Technology, ed. Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar and Mark Nixon (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021): 224-239.

“Modernismo europeo: come nasce e che cosa vuol dire il concetto.” In Il romanzo modernista europeo: autori, forme, questioni, ed. Massimiliano Tortora and Annalisa Volpone (Rome: Carocci Editore, 2019), pp. 21-43. [In Italian]

“Editors’ Introduction,” co-authored with Paul Fagan and John McCourt. In Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority. Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan and John McCourt (eds). (Cork: Cork University Press, 2017): 1-18.

“Reading Flann with Paul: Modernism and the Trope of Conversion,” in Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority. Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan and Werner Huber (eds). (Cork: Cork University Press, 2017): 219-229.

“Beckett and Deleuze: Tragic Thinkers.” Deleuze and Beckett, ed. Stephen Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite (London: Palgrave, 2015): 139-206.

“Deleuze on Genre: Modernity between the Tragic and the Novel,” in Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature, ed. Ian Buchanan et al. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015): 99-115.

“Editors’ Introduction,” co-authored with Paul Fagan and Werner Huber. In Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies. Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan and Werner Huber (eds). (Cork: Cork University Press, 2014): 1-16.

“Surviving in Borges: The Memory of Objects after the End of the World,” in Cy-Borges: Memories of Posthumanism in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges, ed. Stefan Herbrechter et al. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2009): 168-196.

“Deconstruction and the Undoing of Diplomacy.” Co-authored with Ivan Callus. In Language and Diplomacy, ed. Jovan Kurbalija and Hannah Slavik (Malta: DiploProjects, 2001): 233-260.

REVIEWS AND SHORT ARTICLES

Ruben Borg, 'Review of Katherine Ebury, Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890–1950,' The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 5, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 1–5.

“Beckett's Insistent Bodies.” Review of Derval Tubridy, Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity. Journal of Modern Literature 4.3 (Spring 2021): 184-187.

Review of Jean-Michel Rabate, The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns. James Joyce Quarterly 53.3-4 (Spring, Summer 2016): 384-387.

“Literary Modernism.” Genealogies of the Posthuman. Critical Posthumanism Network. 2017. Web. [Encyclopedia Entry]

“The Parish Review: Editors’/Founders’ Note.” Co-authored with Paul Fagan. The Parish Review 1.1 (Summer 2012): 1-11.

“Working with History, Working with Taboo: a Comparative Review of Two Works of Joyce criticism.” Journal of Modern Literature 31.2 (Winter 2008): 149-155. Review.

“Entwining our Arts,” review of Christa Maria Lerm-Hayes, Joyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2004). Journal of Modern Literature 29.4 (Summer 2006): 189-193. Review.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

July 2021: 110 Myles: Flann O'Brien at a Distance. (Online conference).

July 2017: Acting Out: The 4th International Flann O’Brien Conference (Salzburg, Austria).

September 2015: Metamorphoses: The 3rd International Flann O’Brien Conference (Prague, Czech Republic).

June 2013: Problems with Authority: The 2nd International Flann O’Brien Conference (Rome, Italy).

October 2011: Posthumanism and Transhumanism. An international conference at the Van Leer Institute, with Icon Tel-Aviv and Tel-Aviv University.

July 2011: 100 Myles: The International Flann O’Brien Centenary Conference (Vienna, Austria).

EDITORIAL WORK AND ADVISORY BOARDS

The Parish Review (co-editor)

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (associate editor)

Countertext (advisory editor)

Journal of Modern Literature (advisory editor)

PEER REVIEW

2018-2021: Manuscript evaluations for Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, and Brill

2015-2021: Journal of Modern Literature (12 articles)

2021: Textual Practice

2017: Modernist Cultures

2017: International Journal of English Studies

2014-2017: James Joyce Quarterly (2 articles)

2014: Contemporary Drama

2012: Subjectivity

2010: Deleuze Studies

DOCTORAL CANDIDATES

Lasse Jensen. Metaphysics in a Secular Age: Language, Tradition and Belief in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. 2020.

Yaeli Greenblatt. The Typographic Novel: Visual Materiality and the Joycean Image. 2021.

Talia Abu. Guilt and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. 2022

Tali Banin. Modernism and the Search for Posthuman Intimacy. In Progress.

RECENT COURSES

Spotlight Theory: Posthumanism (M.A. Seminar)

Dante and Modernism (M.A. seminar)

Narcissus on the Liffey: Image and Identity in Six Modern Irish Novelists (M.A. seminar)

July 2017: Acting Out: The 4^th International Flann O’Brien Conference (Salzburg, Austria).

September 2015: Metamorphoses: The 3^rd International Flann O’Brien Conference (Prague, Czech Republic).

June 2013: Problems with Authority: The 2^nd International Flann O’Brien Conference (Rome, Italy).