Sonia Weiner teaches and researches contemporary American Literature. Her research interests include migration fiction, transnational fiction, African American literature, and Comics. Her work focuses on intermedial configurations of text and photographic images.
Dr. Sonia Weiner
GENERAL STUDIES IN HUMANITIES
Department of English and American Studies
לימודים כלליים
עמית הוראה
Department of English and American Studies
Research
Publications
Publications
“Migration Novels as Archival Spaces: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive & Amitava Kumar’s Immigrant, Montana.” The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature, edited by Gigi Adair, Rebecca Fasselt, and Carly McLaughlin, Routledge, 2024, pp. 226-238.
“‘Are you the translator?’: Intermedial Narratives in Paisley Rekdal’s Intimate: An American Family Photo Album.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 68, no. 3, 2023, pp. 341-60.
“The direction of the bizarre’: Reimagining History in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.” Alternative Realities: American Literature in the Era of Trumpism, edited by Dolores Resano, Palgrave Macmilllan, July 2022.
“Photographic Aesthetics and Migratory Ethics in Amitava Kumar's Immigrant, Montana.” Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, 2021, pp. 489-509.
“Chicago Now: Aleksandar Hemon, Dmitry Samarov, Erika L. Sánchez, and the Contemporary City of Immigrants.” Chicago: A Literary History, edited by Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Camebridge University Press, 2021.
“Photographic (Over) Exposures in the Nuclear Age in Joyce Carol Oates’s You Must Remember This.” Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies, vol. 5, 2019, pp. 1-39.
American Migration Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity. Brill Rodopi, New Costerus Series, 2018.
“Double Visions and Aesthetics of the Migratory in Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project.” Studies in the Novel 46:2 (2014): 215-235.
"Narrating Photography in The Sweet Flypaper of Life." MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), 37:1 (2012): 155-176.
"Dialogue as Art – Reading Vikas Swarup's Q & A with Daya Krishna." Culture and Dialogue, 2:1 (2012): 3-14.
Forthcoming:
Obstinate Heritage and the Family Photo Archive in Lily Tuck’s The Double Life of Liliane. Amerikastudien / American Studies 2025
Hebrew Publications
.Introduction to Hebrew translation of Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman. Am Oved, 201
.Introduction to Hebrew translation of W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black folk. Nahar Books, 2008
Book Reviews
Mary Jacobus, On Belonging and Not Belonging: Migration, Translation, Dislocation, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, vol. 49, no. 4, 2022, pp. 474-477.
Awards & Prizes
Israel Science Foundation Grant – 2013-17
Between Form and Content: Aesthetics of Contemporary American Novels of Migration
Israel Science Foundation Grant - 2021-2024
Photography Embedded American Autobiographical Fiction
