Amit Yahav

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D: English, John Hopkins University, 2005 -
• B.A.: , Tel Aviv University

Specialties

• Eighteenth-century British literature and culture
• The novel
• Romanticism
• Aesthetics
• Literary, cultural, and political theory
• History of Popular Culture: Leisure

Publications

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Publications

• Yahav, Amit. "In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure." MLQ 84.1 (2023): 1-25.
• Yahav, Amit, edited by Maria Frawley and Cheryl Wilson. "Austen’s Literary Time." The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen (2021): 306-317.
• Yahav, Amit. "Leisure Reading and Austen’s Case for Differentiated Time." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 60.2 (2019): 163-83.
• Yahav, Amit. Feeling Time: Duration, The Novel, and Eighteenth-Century Sensibility. University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018.
• Yahav, Amit. "Sonorous Duration: Tristram Shandy and the Temporality of Novels." PMLA 128.4 (2013): 872-887.
• Yahav, Amit. "The Sense of Rhythm: Nationalism, Sympathy, and the English Elocutionists." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 52.2 (2011): 173-92.
• Yahav, Amit. "Is There a Bull in This Nation? On Maria Edgeworth’s Nationalism." Studies in Romanticism 49.1 (2010): 79-104.
• Yahav, Amit. "Introduction: The Ethics of Temporality, Special Forum." Partial Answers 8.1 (2010): 93-96.
• Yahav, Amit. "Time, Duration, and Defoe’s Novels." Partial Answers 6.1 (2008): 33-56.
• Yahav, Amit. "Gypsies, Nomadism, and the Limits of Realism." MLN 121.5 (2006): 1124-1147.
• Yahav, Amit. "Reasonableness and Domestic Fiction." ELH 73.4 (2006): 805-830.
• Yahav, Amit. "At Home in England, or Projecting Liberal Citizenship in Moll Flanders." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 35.1 (2001): 24-45.

Awards

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Awards

• Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Research Fellowship, 2010
• Clark Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies Kanner Fellowship, 2007
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship for work in residence at the Newberry Library, 2006
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, 2002 - 2003
• Graduate Prize Fellowship, Center for Research on Culture and Literature, 2000 - 2001
• Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, 2015
• Talle Faculty Research Award, 2019 - 2020
• Donald V. Hawkins Professorship, 2019 - 2020

Courses

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Courses

• Horror: British Gothic Fiction
• Modern Theory and Criticism
• Love and the Novel
• The Eighteenth Century: Satire, Sex, and Sentiment
• History of Literary Theory
• History and Theory of the Novel (graduate)
• The Rise of the Public Sphere: Criticism and Taste (graduate)
• Work in English Culture (graduate)