Nana Ariel researches and teaches in the fields of rhetoric, the culture of the word and the book, and learning sciences. She is a senior faculty member at the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, previously a researcher and guest lecturer at Harvard University in the US and Sciences Po in Paris, and a fellow at the Minducate Center for Learning Sciences. Her areas of interest are the rhetoric of modernist and contemporary collective movements, conventions and clichés in language, material culture of books, and the connections between theory and practice in learning and pedagogy. Her articles have been published in academic journals and local and international magazines. Nana is a member of the ADARR group for research in rhetoric, a fellow of the "Ruach Hamakom" Center for Public Humanities at Tel Aviv University, and a board member of the organization "Derech Ruach" She is also a children's author and a publisher.
Dr. Nana Ariel
GENERAL STUDIES IN HUMANITIES
Department of Literature

Dr. Nana Ariel
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Nana Ariel is a scholar and educator working in the fields of rhetoric, book and print culture, and the learning sciences. She is a senior faculty member in the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University. She has held research and visiting teaching positions at, among other institutions, Harvard University and the UC Berkeley in the United States, and Sciences Po in Paris.
Her research interests span rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome to the present day; the rhetoric of modernist and contemporary collective movements; conventions and clichés in language, literature, and culture; the material culture of books; and the relationships between theory and practice in learning and pedagogy. Her articles have appeared in academic journals as well as in local and international magazines.
Nana is a member of the ADARR research group in rhetoric, a fellow of the Mandel Center for Public Humanities at Tel Aviv University, and a board member of the Derech Ruach organization promoting the Humities. She is also a children's author and publisher. She is an enthusiast of adventurous teaching and learning.
Research Interests
theoretical and practical rhetoric; genres, conventions and clichés in language, literature and culture; comparative modernism (cultural movements, manifestos, small magazines, avant-garde); material culture of books; learning sciences; Teaching and learning in the humanities

