Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language and Culture
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1996.
Before coming to the University of Maryland in 2002, Dr. Zakim was on the faculty at Duke University for six years. He teaches
courses in Hebrew Language and Israeli culture, and coordinates
the Hebrew language program. Dr. Zakim received his Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature for a dissertation on "The Project of Expression
in Modernist Literature and Music: David Fogel, Arnold Schoenberg,
and David Grossman." He has published seven articles
and guest-edited a volume of Prooftexts, the leading
scholarly journal in his field. His book, To Build and Be Built: Landscape, Literature, and the Construction of Zionist Identity, will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in Fall 2005; he is currently co-editing a volume of essays on culture in the Mediterranean, Mediterranean Studies: Rethinking the Boundaries of Culture, which will be published by the MLA Press.
Dr. Zakim can be reached at zakim@umd.edu. |
