Dr. Gai Farchi

Gai Farchi is a scholar of literature and cultural studies. He currently works on the material turn in the humanities, examining how objects, trash, memory and nostalgia are dealt with in literature through the lens of ecocriticism and posthumanist theory. Gai was a visiting scholar at Université Paris Diderot and NYU. His work has been published in journals such as SubStance and French Studies.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. “Impersonal Belongings: Annie Ernaux's Poetics of Chiffonnage”, SubStance, 2023.

 2. “Literature between Collecting and Hoarding: Revisiting the Object in Bon, Flem, and Perec”, French Studies, 2023.

3. “Piling Up: New Materialisms, Collecting, and Hoarding”, Theory & Criticism, 2023. In Hebrew. 

4. “Is Existentialism a Posthumanism? The Sartrean Reflections of Egloff and Darrieussecq, French Cultural Studies, 2022.

5. “A Matter of Life and Death: Michel Houellebecq’s Vibrant Materialism”, French Forum, 2021.

6. “Literature Underwater: The Oceanic Becomings of Nothomb and Darrieussecq”. French Forum, 2020.

7. “Prosthetic Love: Subject-Object Interaction in Journal d'Hirondelle,” Muza, 2019. In Hebrew.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

1. “On Plastic”, Theory & Criticism, 2022. Essay, in Hebrew.

 2. “Politics of Pita Bread: Miznon and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”, Thoughts on a Meal in the Visual and Material Culture, Bartal, A’, Eitan M’, Vered, R’ (editors), Resling and Bezalel, 2021. In Hebrew.

3. “On the Suffocating Echo of Yaakov Shabtai”, published in Ho! Essays on Music and Poetry, Kibbutz-Poalim, Tel Aviv, 2019. In Hebrew.