Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Einat Davidi
Degrees
B.A. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin („Zwischenprüfung‟)
Ph.D Heidelberg Universität, (summa cum laude)
Principal Interests
Hermeneutics, Theo-Poetik (Poetical inter-confessional Dialog), Converso Literature of
Spanish Golden Age, Cuban Cultural History and Literature, Spanish and Latin American
Literature, German and French Literature, Literature Theory, Poststructuralism Postcolonial
Theory, Theory of Translation, Intermediality, Cultural History of Music (Flamenco, AfroCuban Music).
Educational Background
2004-2007
2004
1999-2004
2003
2001
1994-1996
Heidelberg Universität, Spanish and French Literature, German Studies
Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), Cuban Literature and
Cultural History
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Romance Languages and Literatures, German
Studies
Freie Universität Berlin, Linguistics and German Studies
Universidad de Seville (Spain), Spanish Language and Literature
Academy of Art and Design Bezalel, Jerusalem, Fine Arts
Teaching Experience
Fall 2012
- Herzog College, Tikvah Program for outstanding students, Major Works
of World Literature of the 12-16 Century
- Herzog College, Department of Literature, 1/ Agnon – Sacralization and
Secularisation. 2/ From Literature to Cinema. 3/ Major works of Western
Literature
Spring 2012 Herzog College, Tikvah Program for outstanding students, Major Works of 20
Century World Literature
Fall 2011
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spanish Literature at the 20th Century,
Major works of Cuban Literature
Fall 2010
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Intermediality: Adaptations of
Cuban Literature to Cinema
Fall 2009
University of Heidelberg, Cultural History of Cuban Music, Latin
American Essayistic, Marquis de Sade: Literature, illumination, and
Pornography
Spring 2009 University of Heidelberg, The Theatre of Lorca, French Realism,
Cultural history of Flamenco
Fall 2008
University of Heidelberg, Gabriel García Marquéz and Magical Realism,
Georges Perec and Oulipo
Spring 2008 University of Heidelberg, History of Cuban Literature
Fall 2007
University of Heidelberg, Spanish Avant-garde Poetry
2005
University of Heidelberg, (Teaching Assistant) Introduction to Romance
Philology
Talks
1. „Heilige und Profane Sprache. Ein literarischer Streifzug durch Israel“. Vortrag
anlässlich des Unabhängigkeitstages des Staates Israels vor dem DeutschIsraelischen Freundschaftskreis, Mai 2007.
2. “Errores en „Paradiso‟ de José Lezama Lima. El arte del error y el „quinto camino‟ de
Abraham Abulafia”. (Errors in „Paradiso‟ of Jose Lezama Lima. The Art of Error
and the fifth path of Abraham Abulafia) Lecture at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, on June 4th, 2008.
3. “La función poética del oráculo en La sibila del oriente y El árbol del mejor fruto”.
XV Coloquio Anglogermano sobre Calderón. 14-18 de julio de 2008, Wroclaw,
Poland.
4. “A Question of Honor: Cervantes‟ The Little Gypsy”, Van Leer Institute: Cervantes
and the Middle East 18 November 2010.
5. “Flamenco between Art and Folklore”, Cinematheque Jerusalem 29 July 2010
6. “El camino sin salido como imaginair – Unas consideraciones éticas en torno a Lorcas
Yerma”, El Congreso de la Asociación Nacional de Hispanistas de Israel, 1 June
2011
7. “Enriquez Gómez: “Secularization and Sacralization”. Van Leer Institute: Strangers
and Neighbors, 5 June, 2011 (in Hebrew)
8. “Cuban Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution in the Film Fresas y Chocolate”,
Cinemateque Jerusalem Juni 2012
9. “Cuban History as Disease. Total exile, Insanity and Literature in Guillermo Rosales
Boarding Home”, Latin American Studies Association annual Congress, San
Francisco, Mai 2012
Fellowships
Lady Davis Fellowship Trust 2010, Lady Davis 2011, Mirelman Foundation 2011, Franz
Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
2012
Languages
Hebrew
English, German, Spanish
Classical Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino,
Portuguese, French
Italian, Old German, Latin
(native ability)
(excellent reading and speaking knowledge)
(excellent reading knowledge)
(good reading knowledge)
Publications
1. (Book) Paradiso und Pardes: Kontrapunktisches Lesen der Poetologie José Lezama
Limas und der Sprach- und Geschichtstheorie der Kabbala, Wilhelm Fink Verlag,
München 2012
2. “Paradiso: El arte del error de Lezama Lima y el quinto camino de Abraham
Abulafia”, in: Hispamerica, 111 (2008), p. 17-30
3. “El sionismo como novela moderna. Una lectura de S.Y. Agnon”, in:
Representaciones, Vol. 5, No 2 (Nov. 2009)
4. “La función poética del oráculo en La sibila del oriente y El árbol del mejor fruto”, in:
Manfred Tiez (ed.), Actas del XV Coloquio Anglogermano sobre Calderón, Wroclaw,
Poland. 2011
5. “Teo-poética entre redención y perdición. La versión conversa del Cantar de los
Cantares de Enríquez Gómez, en: Caliópe, The Society for Renaissance and Baroque
Hispanic Poetry, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2011)
6. “La noche órfica de José Lezama Lima”, in: Lezama Lima: La palabra extensiva,
Madrid: Verbum, 2011
7. “The Jewish Petenera – Profile of a Myth”, in: Partial Answers (submitted to
publication)
8. (Translation into Hebrew and introduction) Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of
Morel, Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers, 2010
9. Giluy ve-Kisuy ba-Lashon. Bialiks kabbalistische Theopoetik. (Übersetzung,
Kommentar und kritische Abhandlung), in: Truma (Submitted to Publication)
10. (Book Review) Florian Borchmeyer, Die Ordnung des Unbekannten. Von der
Erfindung der neuen Welt, Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2009, in: Iberoamericana
(submitted to publication)
11. (Book Review) Christian Wehr, Geistliche Meditation und Poetische Imagination.
Studien zu Ignacio de Loyola und Francisco de Quevedo. Wilhelm Fink, München
2009 in: Iberoamericana (submitted to publication).
12. (Book Review) Jörg Köbke, „El deseo que se hace coral‟ Geschlechtidentität und
Begehren in José Lezama Limas Romanen Paradiso und Oppiano Licario, Walter
Frey, Berlin 2007, in Iberoamericana 34 (2009), p. 230-231
13. (Book Review) William Rowlandson, Reading Lezama‟s Paradiso, Peter Lang, Bern
2007 in Iberoamericana 34 (2009), p. 231-232
14. „Grund“, in: Lauter Niemand. Berliner Zeitschrift für Lyrik und Prosa, Jahrgang
2003, Ausgabe 4
15. „Vom Iberischen Helikon in den Hamburger Parnass. Allegorien der Konversion und
Immigration in der Frühen Neuzeit„. (in preperation)