简介

Nili Gold’s study of Hebrew and Israeli literature combines psychoanalytic, biographical and cultural-historical approaches. Her later work is informed by diasporic studies and deals with questions of immigration and multilingualism. Her first book, Lo Kabrosh: Gilgule Imagim Ve-tavniyot Be-shirat Yehuda Amichai (Not Like a Cypress: Transformations of Images and Structures in the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai [1994]), won the Award for the Best First Book in Hebrew Literature from the Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Israel. Her second book, entitled Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet (UPNE 2008), won the 2007 Lucius Littauer Foundation Publishing Award and the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) publication grant for 2008. She has published numerous articles in English and Hebrew academic journals on essential questions in Hebrew literature as well as on a wide range of Modern and Postmodern Hebrew and Israeli authors. Her articles have been published in Criticism & Interpretation: Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Culture; Hebrew Studies; Jewish Studies Quarterly; Mikan (BGU); and Prooftexts; among others.