Raya Morag CURRICULUM VITAE

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1 Raya Morag CURRICULUM VITAE Raya Morag, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Cinema Studies Dept. of Communication & Journalism The Hebrew University, Israel Updated: July 22, 2012 HIGHER EDUCATION Hebrew University B.A., Hebrew Literature & Education (cum laude) Hebrew University Teaching Diploma, Education School, Department of Teacher Training Hebrew University M.A., Communication (summa cum laude) Hebrew University Ph.D., Communication APPOINTMENTS AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY Department. of Communication & Journalism Instructor Department. of Communication & Journalism Research Affiliate Department of Communication & Journalism Lecturer Department of Communication & Journalism Senior Lecturer with Tenure and Associate Professor ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS/TASKS AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY B.A. Counselor Teaching Committee, Department of Communication Teaching Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences Member, PhD Students Committee, Department of Communication Coordinator of departmental seminar, Department of Communication 1

2 SERVICE IN OTHER ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS The Jerusalem Cinematheque Invited lecturer Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem Department of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University 2002 The Sam Spiegel School of Film & Television OTHER ACTIVITY Membership in Juries/ Film Committees Lecturer Lecturer Lecturer International Advisory Board Asian Cinema Member, Editorial Board, Studies in Documentary Film Member of the Film Committee, the Rabinovich Fund for the Arts, Tel-Aviv, evaluating and selecting projects for subsidizing, and supervising the directors throughout the production stages. Member of the jury for the Grant for Best Documentary Student Film in memory of David Perlov , 2001 Member of the Academic Advisory Committee, Slil Online Journal for History, Film and Television, Hebrew University. Member of the jury for the Grant for the Art of Cinema at the Jerusalem International Film Festival. Member of the jury in the Wolgin Awards for Israeli Cinema at the Jerusalem International Film Festival. Member of the jury in the TV Drama Category at the Jerusalem International Film Festival. Ad-hoc Reviewer Feminist Media Studies, Partial Answers, GLQ, Media, War & Conflict, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Body & Society, Studies in Documentary Film, Mikan, Israel, Misgarot Media, Israeli Sociology, Politica, Theory and Criticism 1

3 Organization of Conferences Co-organizer (with Prof. Shai Ginsburg, Center of Jewish Studies, Duke University, US; and Orna Raviv, The Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum, The Jerusalem Cinematheque) of one-day conference: The First International Conference on Israeli Documentary Cinema: A Look from the Inside, A Look from the Outside, Jerusalem. Co-organizer (with Dr. Paul Frosh, Dept. of Communication & Journalism and the Smart Institute) of one-day Cinema Conference at the Jerusalem Cinematheque in honor of Prof. Alan Rosenthal. I also presented a paper, The Body and the Corpse in Israeli Cinema on the Intifada. Co-organizer (with Prof. Idan Segev and the students representative) of one-day seminar at the Jerusalem Cinematheque on Representing Time in Cinema for doctoral students of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University. I also presented a lecture on Time in/and Cinema. Selected Invited Lectures Keynote: Cinema and Perpetrator Trauma: A 'New' Paradigm, An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on The Horrors of Trauma: Violence, Reenactment, Nation, and Film, at Ben- Gurion University. Dancing with Bashir: The Death Waltz and Israeli Cinema The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University. The New Religious Documentary Wave and Women in Jerusalem, Open University Women, The Ethnographic Film, and Jerusalem, The First Anthropological Film Festival, Organized by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Cinema, Masculinity, and Defeat in War, A conference to celebrate International Men s Day, the Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies at the Hebrew University. Human Dignity in Cinema: Between Entertainment and Ethics, A Conference on Ethics and Human Dignity, The Israel Democracy Institute. Current Israeli Documentary Cinema and Women in Jerusalem, A conference to celebrate the 20 th anniversary of the foundation of the Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies at the Hebrew University. Did Waltz with Bashir Burst Any Myths in Israeli Cinema? The Twelfth Seminar of the Jerusalem Friends of the Hebrew University. Re-corporealization in Post-Maoist Chinese Cinema, The Seventh Annual Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel. 3

4 Body, Corpse: Israeli Cinema, Palestinian Cinema, Ehics Center, Mishkenot Sha ananim. Defeated Masculinity, invited lecture by the Film Studies Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. The Image of the Other in Current Israeli Cinema, Visiting Faculty Fellows Forum, Hebrew University. Nasty Girl and Verhoeven s Cinema, Yad VaShem. An Impossible Post-War Love Story: The German Male and the German Jew, in honor of Prof. Regine Mihal Friedman, the Department of Cinema & TV, Tel Aviv University. Israeli Cinema Past and Present, New Directions in Current Israeli Cinema, at the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, Egypt. Representations of the Holocaust in Current Israeli Cinema, at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. War, Trauma and Cinema, The Community and Youth Authority (Madua), Hebrew University. A series of lectures invited by The Women Friends of the Hebrew University in Mexico City: Pedro Almodovar s Cinema at ETC, The Jewish Community; Israeli and Palestinian Films on the Intifada at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematograficos (CUEC); Femininity and Masculinity in Current Cinema at the Filmoteca de la U.N.A.M. (National Autonomous University); Film and History at Ramat Shalom Community Center; Film and History at Universidad Anahuac; Almodovar s Cinema and Queer Theory at Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA). New Directions in Current Cinematic Feminist Critique, (two lectures) at the Lafer Center, Hebrew University. Post-Maoist Chinese Cinema, the Israel-China Trade Center, Tel-Aviv. Representations of Women in Global Cinema, Woman for Woman in support of The Shelter for Abused Women, Jerusalem. Other Activities Member of promotion committees (to senior lecturer) - Open University, and Hadassah College Jerusalem Evaluation of a research proposal submitted to the ISF on Israeli Cinema Evaluation of Sapir College's new MA Program in Screen Studies (as a member of a committee chosen by the Council for Higher Education). Evaluation of the Open University s new courses Cinema Theory, and Cinema Theory II. 4

5 Moderation of a panel on Sexual Violence in Films - Ethics and a New Cinematic Language, International Conference, The 8 th International Women s Film Festival. Moderation of a discussion with Michal Aviad (director) on the ethics of representing rape and her film Invisible, the 8 th International Women s Film Festival. Moderation of a panel, The 10 TH Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel. Review of the Open University s new book on Trauma and Cinema. Evaluation of the Open University s new Cinema program. Evaluation of the Open University s new course Auteur and Author. Evaluation of the Open University s new course Israeli Cinema in Fin De Sciéle. Evaluation of the Open University s updated course Cinematic Adaptations of Israeli Literature. Evaluation of the Open University s new course Memory, Trauma and Fantasy in Cinema. Moderation of a discussion with Michael Verhoeven (director, The Unknown Soldier) at the 8 th Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival. Evaluation of the Open University s new curriculum for B.A. in Cinema Studies. MEMBERSHIP IN A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION SCMS ICA EPWS AIS Society for Cinema and Media Studies International Communication Association European Platform of Women Scientists AISBL Israeli Communication Association Association for Israel Studies 8. RESEARCH GRANTS Eshkol Institution for Social, Economic and Political Research in Israel, Hebrew University 2006 Smart Institute, Hebrew University 2007 Freiberg Institute for East Asian Studies, Hebrew University Supporting research on Body and Trauma - Israeli and Palestinian Films on the Intifada. ($2,000) Supporting research on Pan- Chinese Cinema. ($2,000) Supporting research on The Fifth Generation Cinema as Post-Traumatic Cinema. ($1000). 5

6 Eshkol Institution for Social, Economic and Political Research in Israel, and the Shaine Center for Research in Social Sciences, Hebrew University Smart Institute, Hebrew University Supporting research on The Intifada, Israeli Documentary Cinema, and the Trauma of the Perpetrator. (NIS 9,000) Supporting research on A New Model of Cinematic Feminine Becoming? The Boxer, the Bullfighter, and the Terrorist Europe Forum, Hebrew University Supporting my book ($2000) 2009 Koebner Institute, Hebrew University 2011 Cherrick Center, Hebrew University 2012 Eshkol and Shaine Centers, Hebrew University TEACHING AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY Supervision of master s and doctoral degree students Master s degree students: Supporting my book ($2000) Years Name of Candidate Co-Supervisor Supporting research on Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Intifada Cinema (NIS 7,500) Supporting research on The New Religious Wave in Israeli Cinema: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism during the Second Intifada (NIS 8,000) Yunas-Aharoni Gabi Representing the Other in Post-Franco Spanish Cinema (co-supervisor - Dr. Zvi Tal) Ruppin Dafna The Open Wound of Colonial Nostalgia: Childhood and Complicity in Chocolat and Outremer (co-supervisor - Dr. Louise Bethlehem). (See The Open Wound of Colonial Nostalgia: A White Childhood in Chocolat and Outremer Theory and Criticism 29 Autumn 2006: 9-30.) (Hebrew) to 2011 Ido Ramati Returning to Germany: Representations of Germany in Contemporary Israeli Cinema to 2012 Ayelet Orpaz (Cultural Studies) Eye for an Eye: The Aggressive Victim in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ to present Roy Zeevi The Portrayal of the German Woman in New German Cinema s Autobiographical Films Directed by Women to present Yaron Tzuk (Center for German Studies) The Politics of Space, Motion and Body and in German Film and Literature - From New German Cinema to the Contemporary Trans-national Turn to present Ella Klik The Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities from the Index to the Archive. 1

7 Doctoral Degree students: Years Name of Candidate Co-Supervisor Ruth Ablin-Raveh The Representation of the Israeli Combat Soldier in Film and Television (co-supervisor - Dr. Ariel Hirschfeld) Mor Hassid-Levi Building a National Cinema The Israeli Film Industry and Evolution of National Identity ( ) (co-supervisor - Dr. Michal Frankel). Courses Taught Bachelor s degree courses Introduction to Visual Culture Television, Cinema & Photography National Cinema, World Cinema Introduction to the Aesthetics of Cinema The New German Cinema Neo-Marxism and Popular Cinema Pan-Chinese Cinema War, Trauma, and Cinema: Vietnam 1 semester, 2 (+1) weekly hours, frontal course, first year of B.A., compulsory course. 1 semester, 2 weekly hours, frontal course, second year of B.A., optional. 1 semester, 2 weekly hours, frontal course, second year of B.A., optional. 1 semester, 2 weekly hours, frontal and proseminar, second and third year of B.A., optional. 1 semester, 2 weekly hours, frontal course, second and third year of B.A., optional. 1 semester, 2 weekly hours, frontal and proseminar, second year of B.A., optional. 2 semesters, 2 weekly hours, frontal and seminar, optional. Master s degree courses New German Cinema National Cinema, World Cinema 2 semesters, 2 weekly hours, seminar, optional. 1 semester, 2 weekly hours, frontal course, optional. 9

8 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 1. Doctoral Dissertation: Title: Defeated Masculinity. Models of Identity in Post Traumatic Cinema: A Feminist Perspective. Supervisor: Prof. Y. Nir. Books 2. Morag, Raya (2009) Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath of War, Peter Lang, Brussels. 294 pages. 3. Morag, Raya (2011) Defeated Male: War, Trauma, and Cinema Koebner Series, Jerusalem and Resling, Tel Aviv. 310 pages. (in Hebrew) 4. Morag, Raya (2012) Waltzing with Bashir: Perpetrator Trauma and Cinema. I.B. Tauris, London & New York (forthcoming, in press) Chapters in Collections 5. Morag, Raya (2000) Life-Taker Heart-Breaker : Mask-ulinity and/or Femininity in Full Metal Jacket, The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity ed. Wendy Everett Rodopi, Atlanta GA: Morag, Raya (2008) Interpretation without a Body, a Body without Interpretation: On Some Cases of Bulimia in Cinema, Telling News Stories: Perspectives on Media Discourse in Israel eds. Neiger, M., Blondheim M. and Liebes T., Smart Communication Institute and Magnes, Jerusalem: Morag, Raya (2012) Middle East: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Intifada Cinema: From Roadblock to 'Blood Relation' Films The Documentary Cinema Book ed. Brian Winston, BFI, London (forthcoming, in press) 8. Morag, Raya (2012) Queering the Terror? Trauma, Race, and Nationalism in Palestinian and Israeli Gay Cinema during the al-aqsa Intifada, Cinematic Traces: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Film eds. Raz Yosef and Boaz Hagin, Continuum Pub., New York (forthcoming, in press) 9. Morag, Raya (2012) Taking Photographs As Abuse, 'The Blot of a Light Cloud'? Israeli Soldiers, Army, and Society in the Intifada ed. Yoel Elizur Kav Adom Hakkibutz Hameuhad, Tel Aviv: (in Hebrew) 10. Morag, Raya (2012) Israeli Documentary Cinema and the New Religious Wave: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism during the Second Intifada Blackwell Companion on Documentary eds. Alex Juhasz & Alisa Lebow, New York, Blackwell (forthcoming, in press) 9

9 Articles in Refereed Journals 11. Loshitzky Yosefa & Meyuhas [Morag] Raya PI (1992) Ecstasy of Difference : Bertolucci s The Last Emperor, Cinema Journal 31.2 Winter: Morag, Raya (2006) Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath of the Vietnam War, The Communication Review 9.3 July- September: Morag, Raya (2006) Not a Dirty Secret: On Some Cases of Bulimia in Cinema, Camera Obscura : Morag, Raya (2008) Chronic Trauma, the Sound of Terror, and Current Israeli Cinema, Framework 49.1 Spring: Morag, Raya (2008) Sound, Image, Terror and Memory: Israeli Narrative Cinema in the Age of the Second Intifada, Israel 14: (in Hebrew). 16. Morag, Raya (2008) The Living Body and the Corpse Israeli Documentary Cinema and the Intifadah, Journal of Film & Video Fall\Winter: Morag, Raya (2010) Interracial (Homo)Sexualities and Trauma: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema during the al-aqsa Intifada (Diary of a Male Whore and The Bubble), International Journal of Communication 4: Morag, Raya (2012) Abjection, Ethics, and Otherness: Israeli Documentary Cinema in the Age of the Second Intifada, Mikan (in Hebrew) (forthcoming, in press). 19. Morag, Raya (2012) Sexuality and the Occupation: Israeli and Palestinian Post-Traumatic Cinema during the Second Intifada, Theory & Criticism 38-39: (in Hebrew) 20. Morag, Raya (2011) Post-Trauma, Post Queer: The Hitlerian Imago and the New German Cinema, New Review of Film and Television Studies 9.4 October: Morag, Raya (2012) Perpetrator Trauma and Current Israeli Documentary Cinema, Camera Obscura : (forthcoming, in press). 22. Morag, Raya (2012) Unclaimed Masculinity: The New German Cinema as Post-Traumatic Cinema, Babylon (forthcoming, in press). Book Review 23. Morag, Raya (2010) Beyond Flesh and Blood, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 16.4:

10 Articles in Progress 1. Introduction to Special Issue on Israeli Documentary Cinema, Studies in Documentary Film 2. A Cinematic Paradigm Shift: from Victim to Perpetrator Trauma 3. The Post-Traumatic Image in Transition: (Ab)Using Russian Roulette in Global Cinema 4. Re-reading Zhang Yimou s Trilogy: Post-Trauma and Corporeal Recovery 5. Francophony as a Recovery from Trauma: Siejei Dai s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (France/China, 2002) 6. Staging New Models of Feminine Victimhood? From Girlfight to the Woman Terrorist 7. Gyncocentrism and the Split Mother: The Stranger in Me Cinema Column in Haaretz [Culture and Literature]: (in Hebrew) Horror and Compassion: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days Caution, Lust: On Diasporic Cinema and the Director Ang Lee On the ideological disguise of a true story: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly How to discover the bulimic secret Naked on both sides of the curtain: On Love Life and symbolic incest narratives in cinema A post-turkish film: Fatih Akin s The Edge of Heaven 'A man runs around with his heart on his sleeve': On Amos Kollek s Restless and David Grossman s To the End of the Land An ex-soldier is rooted in the past: Waltz with Bashir A tortured prisoner, a manic penguin, a miner hanging between life and death: On three films at the Jerusalem Cinematheque s International Film Festival A close-up on the stench of urine: Hunger Against addiction to the Sex and the City habit: On authenticity as a directing method in Mike Leigh s Happy- Go-Lucky When the mothering instinct becomes a shattered myth: On Emily Atef s The Stranger in Me Papa, wait for me! What is post-memory? What makes Holocaust memories exceptional? On Yair Lev s spellbinding documentary Hugo II 11

11 Until the last spot of color: On Persepolis First diva for the 43 rd time: On Woody Allen s Vicky Cristina Barcelona The gray is much more dominant than the green: On Nuri Bilge Ceylan s The Three Monkeys To the glory of squalor: On Slumdog Millionaire Restricted to viewers aged 1945 and over: False romanticization in The Reader Choreography of abjection: Yôjirô Takita s Departures A deep need for reconciliation: Clint Eastwood s Gran Torino Two cases of fetishism the Indian and the cinematic, and the cinematic language of Szumowska: On two films to be screened at the Jerusalem International Film Festival When the family falls apart under the burden of unemployment and lies: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa s Tokyo Sonata The traumatic transference of rape and abuse from mothers to daughters: The Peruvian film The Milk of Sorrow Iran: The new trend of Western art Ajami: Darker than Life According to Agfa On new documentary cinema and young@heart Expressionism in blood, wax, and oil: Seraphine The temptation of immediate and direct touch: Avatar Who cares what happened to a goy? A Serious Man The purity of evil: The White Ribbon Sahara Hotel: A cemetery for ships and dreams Our viewing pleasure is based on loss of orientation: Double Hour Far from 'favela Chic': I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You Order in the Balkans: Freulein The lesbian movie, a question of difference: The Kids Are All Right When we return home some people worth shooting will be missing : Soldiers clips on YouTube I like Mark, How Facebook was born again in cinema: The Social Network Garbage with the smell of money: Waste Land On the Docaviv International Film Festival Servants are the smell of our rooms, on Rachel Edwards and Keith Reader s book The Papin Sisters 11

12 From the Romantic to the Tragic: Christian Marclay s The Clock Why Did We Call Her a Monster? Two Films on Rape at the 8th International Women s Film Festival Anti-Repression: The Hangman and The Apartment The Safari Cage Represents the Human: On Two Films Screened at the 29 th Jerusalem International Film Festival: Bestiaire and Beasts of the Southern Wild Participation in International Conferences Year Topic of Lecture Venue 2002 Characterizing Post-Traumatic Cinema 2003 The Living Body and the Corpse: Palestinian-Arab and Israeli- Jewish Films with Women Directors 2003 Documentary Cinema on the Intifada 2004 Pan-Chinese Cinema as Post- Traumatic Cinema- The Films of Zhang Yimou 2005 Body Corpse Land Nation - Israeli Documentary Cinema and the Intifada 2005 Moments of Trauma in Current Israeli Cinema 2006 Post-Trauma in Current Israeli Cinema Annual Conference of Film & Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University Annual Conference of Feminist Studies, Southern Connecticut State University, USA Annual Conference of Film & Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University The 28 th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China Annual Conference of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies SCMS, London University Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis conference ASCA, Amsterdam University The Third International Trauma Research Net Conference of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, St. Moritz, Switzerland Annual Conference of Film & Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University ICA annual conference, San Francisco 2006 Moments of Trauma in Current Israeli Cinema 2007 The Living Body and the Corpse Israeli Documentary Cinema and the Intifada 2008 Ethics, Post-Trauma, Post Queer: Annual Conference of Film & The Hitlerian Imago and the New Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University German Cinema 2008 Post-Trauma, Post Queer: The SCMS annual conference, Philadelphia. Hitlerian Imago and the New German Cinema 2010 Current Israeli Documentary Annual Conference of Film & Cinema and the Trauma of the Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University Perpetrator 2010 Current Israeli Documentary SCMS Annual conference, Los Angeles 11

13 Year Topic of Lecture Venue Cinema and the Trauma of the Perpetrator 2011 Israeli Documentary Cinema and the New Religious Wave: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism during the second Intifada 2011 Current Israeli Documentary Cinema and the Trauma of the Israeli Soldier 2011 Israeli Documentary Cinema and the New Religious Wave: Secular and National-Religious Films on Jewish Fundamentalism 2012 The Cinema of Zhang Yimou: from Trauma to Physical Recovery 2012 Current Israeli Documentary Cinema and Women in Jerusalem 2012 Cinema and Perpetrator Trauma: A 'New' Paradigm 2012 Cinema and Perpetrator Trauma: Staging A New Paradigm 2012 Current Israeli Documentary Cinema and the Trauma of the Perpetrator SCMS Annual conference, New Orleans Trauma Testimony Discourse Genre Patterns & Innovations International Conference, Tel Aviv University Pre-conference Workshop, Visible Evidence Annual Conference, New York ACSS Asian Cinema Society Annual Conference, Hong Kong The 8th EFRC - European Feminist Research Conference, Budapest, Hungary International and Interdisciplinary Conference The Horrors of Trauma: Violence, Reenactment, Nation, and Film, Ben-Gurion University The Ninth Tel Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies The 1 st International Conference on Israeli Documentary Cinema, Jerusalem 13