Name: Tsafi Sebba-Elran December 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Personal Details Permanent Home Address: 17 Avshalom St. Haifa. Home Telephone Number: 972-4-811-2774 Office Telephone Number: 972-4-828-8177 Cellular Phone: 972-52-833-8833 Email Address: [email protected] 2. Higher Education a. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Period of Study Name of Institution Degree and Department 1997-2000 University of Haifa B.A. Cum Laude Hebrew and Comparative Literature and Philosophy 1999-2002 Tel Aviv University M.A. Cum Laude Hebrew Literature 2003-2009 Tel Aviv University Ph.D. Awarded with The Chaim Rosenberg School distinction of Jewish Studies 1 b. Post-Doctoral Studies Period of Study Name of Institution and Name of Host Department/Lab 2009-2010 University of Haifa Prof. Haya Bar-Itzhak The Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature 2011-2012 Yad Ben-Zvi Institute for the Prof. Avigdor Shinan research of Eretz Israel 2012-2013 Indiana University Prof. Dov-Ber Kerler The Borns Jewish Studies Program 3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education Years Name of Institution and Rank/Position Department 2004-2012 University of Haifa Adjunct Lecturer The Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature 2012-2013 Indiana University Visiting Assistant The Borns Jewish Studies Professor Program 2013-2014 University of Haifa Adjunct Lecturer The Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature 2014- University of Haifa Lecturer The Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature 4. Offices in Academic Administration Years Name of Institution and Role Department 2011-2012 University of Haifa Member of the steering The Department of Hebrew committee, The Self- and Comparative Literature Evaluation Process for the Council for Higher Education 2 2015 University of Haifa Supervisor, Preparatory The Department of Hebrew program for applicants and Comparative Literature of the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature 2016 University of Haifa Supervisor, Research The Department of Hebrew Forum and Comparative Literature 2016 University of Haifa Academic adviser, The Department of Hebrew Research students’ and Comparative Literature conference 5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University Years Memberships in Academic Professional Associations 2011- Member of the World Union of Jewish Studies 2011- Member of the Israeli Humor Society 2014- Member of IFA (Israel Folktale Archives) 2015- Member of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) 2015- Member of ISFNR (International Society for Folk Narrative Research) Years Editorial Assignments 2007 Co-editor, Sadan – Studies in Hebrew Literature, Vol. 6, Tel Aviv University Press. In progress Editor, Te’uda – Researches of the school for Jewish studies; Vol. 27, Festschrift in honor of Prof. Eli Yassif [in Hebrew] [forthcoming] In progress Editor, Festschrift in honor of Prof. Haya Bar-Itzhak [in Hebrew] [forthcoming] Years Reviewing for Academic Press and Refereed Journal 2015 Referee for Academic Studies Press 2015, 2016 Referee for Dapim – Research in Literature Years Reviewing for Fund Agencies None Years Leading and Teaching Study Programs and Directing Public Activities outside the University 1996-1999 A member of the national board of Dor Shalom organization and the head of the northern branch of the movement. Directing and guiding study meetings and debating groups and conducting community projects. 3 2002-2004 Leader of the “Beit Midrash for Jewish leadership” at the Lokey seminar center- a weekly program aimed to discuss varied educational dilemmas in Israeli-Jewish contexts. 2010-2011 Forming and teaching at the study program of young leaders (Gar’in Omanuiot, the arts communes) supported by the New Israel Fund and The Kibbutz Institute for Festivals and Holidays (Shitim). 2012 Member of the steering committee of Avi Chai foundation's Nitzanim program, aiming to conduct and support Jewish cultural activities in Haifa. 6. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences a1. International Conferences - Held Abroad Date Name of Place of Subject of Role Conference Conference Lecture/Discussion June 2009 The 15th Academy of Inventing a pacifist Presenter congress of the Athens tradition- Rabban International Yohanan Ben-Zakai as Society for Folk a Zionist leader Narrative Research (ISFNR): Narratives across space and time, transmissions and adaptations July 2013 The 25th The College 'The jokes that were Presenter International of William never published' – A Conference of and Mary, new collection of the Society for Williamsburg, sexual Jewish jokes Humor Studies Virginia from the beginning of the 20th century June 2015 The 12th University of From ancient Presenter International Zagreb, fragments to modern SIEF Croatia maps: Heritage (International representations and Society for inner tensions in Ethnology and national Jewish Folklore) anthologies Congress: Utopias, Realities, Heritages 4 September International Mansfield In search for new Presenter 2016 conference of College, memories – The and the Inter- Oxford, national Jewish participant Disciplinary. United anthology at the turn of in a study Net: Roots and Kingdom the 19th and 20th group Legacies centuries October AFS (American Miami, The struggle over Presenter 2016 Folklore Florida ‘locality’ in Israeli Society) and Humoristic Memes ISFNR from the 2014 military (International conflict in Gaza Society for Folk Narrative Research) joint annual meeting: Unfinished stories a2. International Conferences - Held in Israel Date Name of Place of Subject of Lecture Role Conference Conference /Discussion August The 14th world The Hebrew Solomon and Ashmeday or Presenter 2005 congress of University ‘King of horrors’- The Jewish Studies of aggadic anthologies and Jerusalem their place in the configuration of Judaism as culture August The 15th world The Hebrew The rabbinic legend of the Presenter 2009 congress of University sages and the secular Jewish Studies of halacha of H.N. Bialik Jerusalem January International Bar Ilan Ha-teda behema nefesh Presenter 2010 Conference on University zadika? R. Yossi of Yokeret aggadah and and Lander in the modern anthologies aggadic Institute interpretation throughout the generations August The 16th world The Hebrew 'Why Was the Land Presenter 2013 congress of University Destroyed’? Zionism from Jewish Studies of the Perspective of Sefer Jerusalem ha’agaddah 5 May The 7th Israeli Tel Aviv 'Ana Heruta' – A Rabbinic Presenter 2015 Conference for University legend and the portrait of Contemporary local Judaism Religion and Spirituality a3. Local Conferences Date Name of Place of Subject of Role Conference Conference Lecture/Discussion June 2006 IFA (Israel University ‘The Queen and the Fish’ Presenter Folktale of Haifa – Reading a sea story Archive) Annual meeting June 2006 The 25th Inter- Ben-Gurion Under the test of Presenter University University evolution: The aggadic Conference for of the anthologies at the the Study of Negev beginning of the modern Folklore Hebrew culture May 2007 The 2nd Folklore Achva A girl in each port? Presenter conference of college Seamen tell about their Achva college loves May 2008 The 27th Inter- The Sefer ha’aggadah and Presenter University Hebrew the transition of the Conference for University rabbinic tale to modern the Study of of times Folklore Jerusalem May 2009 The 28th Inter- University From ‘The power of the Presenter University of Haifa tale’ to the power of Conference for interpretation the Study of Folklore May 2011 The 6nd Folklore Achva The body and soul of Presenter conference of college Safed legends Achva college January The 31th Inter- Tel Aviv Margolis' Sippurei Presenter 2012 University University yeshurun and the quiet Conference for revolution of modern the Study of aggadic anthologies Folklore September Research The Van The invention of 'Jewish Presenter 2013 Seminar on Leer Realism'- The national Secularization, Jerusalem anthologies and their the Critique of Institute contribution to the Secularization formation of renewable and Tradition Jewish language 6 May 2015 The 34th Inter- Bar Ilan The 'holy' and the Presenter University University 'profane' in Alter Conference for Druyanow's Sefer the Study of Habediha vehahiddud Folklore February The 2nd Kibbutzim Waza – The missing Presenter 2016 Interdisciplinary College of overview in the jokes of Conference for Education, Zuk Eitan military Humor Studies Technology operation and the Arts b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions Year Name of Place of Subject of Role Conference Conference Conference 2002 The 21th Inter- Tel Aviv Ha-kol Sipur? Steering and University University [Every voice can be organizing Conference for the a story?] committee Study of Folklore member 2007 The 26th Inter- Tel Aviv East and West Steering and University University organizing Conference for the committee Study of Folklore member 2007 The Inter- University of Authors as Culture Steering and University Haifa Heroes organizing Conference for committee Hebrew member Literature 2008 The Inter- University of 60 Years of Israeli Steering and University Haifa Literature organizing Conference for committee Hebrew Literature member 2009 The 28th Inter- University of Folklore and Steering and University Haifa Ideology organizing Conference for the committee Study of Folklore member 2014 The 33th Inter- University of Text and Context Steering and University Haifa organizing Conference for the committee Study of Folklore member 2016 Study session in University of H.N. Bialik and Y.C. Organizer