Shiri Goren

Shiri Goren

Director of the Hebrew Program

SHIRI GOREN is the Director of the Hebrew Program at Yale University, and a faculty member in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Program in Jewish Studies. Her teaching and research focus on contemporary literature, film, and other cultural production in Israel/Palestine, second language acquisition, and the pedagogy of inclusive teaching of culture. Her work has appeared in a variety of venues including Jewish Social Studies; CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture; Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society; Hebrew Higher Education and in several edited volumes, among them: Israeli Television: global Contexts, Local Visions (2021); Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2019) and Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture. Goren is the co-editor of Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (2013).