People | Apartheid--The Global Itinerary

Nitzan Tal

MA Researcher

Nitzan Tal was born in Israel, holds a BA in Comparative Literature jointly with Amirim – the Humanities-based interdisciplinary honors program.

She graduated with distinction in 2013 and is currently finishing her MA in Comparative Literature, studying empathy as a mode of writing and reading violence. As an MA fellow in APARTHEID-STOPS she worked on the reception of Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, in the American academy between 1947-1960 and in Israel between 1951-1954, paying special attention to the ways in which the novel animated notions of liberalism, religion and ethnicity in these two contexts.

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Sarika Talve-Goodman

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sarika Talve-Goodman received a Ph.D. in Literature in 2016 from the University of California, San Diego, specializing in cultural studies. She holds an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, as well as a B.A.

Tal Zalmanovich

Postdoctoral Researcher

tzalmanovich@gmail.com

Dr. Tal Zalmanovich, a postdoctoral researcher in APARTHEID-STOPS, is a historian of Modern Britain with expertise in media and technology in the post-1945 era.

She was awarded a PhD from Rutgers University in 2013. Her current research in the framework of the project examines how the lives and activism of exiled South African political dissidents as well as of British anti-apartheid activists circulated within British culture and impacted on race relations in Britain in the second half of the 20th century. A second project looks into the rhetorical and political function of narratives of interracial love published during the apartheid and post-apartheid era. Prior to her academic career she was a journalist and is now a podcast host at the New Books Network.

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Ayelet Zewi

Archivist

aylee.z@gmail.com

She resides in Jerusalem where she is a graduate student in the Program in Cultural Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. .

Her fields of research center on modern and contemporary Hebrew literature, with an emphasis on representations of impossible romantic relationships between members of different social groups. Ayelet Zewi was born in Kiryat Tivon, near Haifa, and holds a BA in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies from Haifa University (2014)

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