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University of Haifa
The Department of English Language and Literature
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Prof. Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan (D.Phil. Oxon)
The English Department,
The University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel
Tel. no. (res.): +972-4-9532485
Tel. no. (office): +972-4-8249768
E-mail: VULCAND@RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
1973-1976: University of Haifa, The English Department, B.A. English Literature.
1977-1979: Bar-Ilan University, Translation Department, Diploma in Simultaneous
Interpretation and Translation.
1981-1983: Bar-Ilan Univ.--M.A. Cum Laude--English Literature.
1985- 1988: Oxford University--D.Phil--English Literature. Dissertation entitled Joseph Conrad
and the Modern Temper. Subsequently revised and published by Oxford University Press.
PUBLICATIONS
AUTHORED BOOKS:
Graham Greene's Childless Fathers (Macmillan and St. Martin's Press: London and New York,
1988), 115 pp.
Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 218 pp.
Several chapters of the book were anthologized in critical readers: The Norton Critical
Edition of Lord Jim, ed. Thomas C. Moser, New York and London: 1995, pp. 493-504;
Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, The Macmillan New
Casebook Series, ed. Elaine Jordan (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 128-145; Joseph
Conrad, ed. Andrew Michael Roberts (London and New York; Longman, 1998), pp.
247-269; The Norton Edition of Heart of Darkness, ed. Paul Armstrong (W. W. Norton
Inc., 2005).
The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad: Writing, Culture, and Subjectivity ( Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1999), 191 pp.
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EDITED BOOKS:
Joseph Conrad: The Short Fiction, co-edited with Allan Simmons and John Stape (Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2004).
ARTICLES :
"Joseph Conrad's Double-edged Arrow". Conradiana 20, 3 (January 1988), 215-228.
"Textuality and surragacy in Conrad's Chance", L'Epoque Conradienne 16 (1989), pp. 51-65.
Reprinted in Joseph Conrad: Critical Assessments. Ed. Keith Carabine (Amsterdam: Croom
Helm, 1992), vol. III, pp. 387-400.
"A Smile of Fortune and the Romantic Paradox". The Conradian 15,1 (Spring 1990), pp. 1-11.
Reprinted in Joseph Conrad: Critical Assessments. Ed. Keith Carabine (Amsterdam: Croom
Helm, 1992), vol. III, pp. 266-273.
"Voyageur, Voyeur, Narrateur: Anti-Romance in Freya of the Seven Isles". L'Epoque
Conradienne, 17 (1991), pp. 23-33.
"Sudden Holes in Space and Time: Conrad's Anarchist Poetics in The Secret Agent". In Conrad's
Cities, ed. Gene Moore. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992), 207-221.
"Where Does the Joke Come In? : Ethics and Aesthetics in Conrad's The Informer", L'Epoque
Conradienne (1993), pp. 37-46.
"'The Planter of Malata': A Case of Creative Pathology" Conradiana, vol. 26 nos. 2 and 3
(1994), pp. 187-200.
"Narrative, Modernism, and the Crisis of Authority: A Bakhtinian Perspective", Science in
Context, Vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 143-158.
"Bakhtin's Homesickness: A Late Reply to Julia Kristeva", Textual Practice, Vol. 9 no. 2
(Summer 1995), pp. 223-242.
"On the Edge of the Subject: The Heterobiography of Joseph K. Conrad", Genre, 28 (Fall 1995),
pp. 301-320.
"'"Signifying Nothing: Conrad's Idiots and the Anxiety of Modernism", Studies in Short Fiction
33, 2 (1996), pp. 185-96. Rpt. in Joseph Conrad: la fiction et L’Autre, ed. by Josianne PaccaudHuguet (Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard, 1998), pp. 81-95.
"Borderlines and Contraband: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject", Poetics Today, vol. 18,
no. 2 (1997), pp. 251-269.
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“Heart of Darkness and the Ends of Man”, The Conradian 28,1 (Spring 2003), 17-33.
“Some Millennial Footnotes on Heart of Darkness”, in Conrad for the 21st Century, eds. Carola
Kaplan, Peter Mallios and Andrea White (London: Routledge, 2004), 55-66.
" 'Things Pregnant with Words': What Todorov Learned from Bakhtin". Canadian Review of
Comparative Literature, 31, 2 (2004): 153-167.
" 'Part of My Flesh': The Subversive Jewish Voice of Nissim Ezekiel", in Remembering Nissim
Ezekiel ' ed. By Havovi Persis Anklesaria (New Delhi: Indian Academy of Letters,
forthcoming).
"Traduttore/traditore: translation, exile and betrayal in Conrad's Lord Jim" in Conrad: l'ecrivain
et l'etrangete de la langue", ed. Josiane Paccaud-Huguet (Paris: Minard, forthcoming).
"Language, Exile, and Subjectivity" in Studies in the Philosophy of Education, forthcoming. The
essay is also scheduled to appear in Arabic translation in the Palestinian journal Qadia Israelia
(Israeli Issues) in Ramalla in June 2007.
"Nostromo and the Writing of History", Conrad and Narrative Theory, eds. Jeremy Hawthorn,
Jakob Lothe, and James Phelan, Ohio University Press, forthcoming).
WORK IN PROGRESS
I am currently working on an inter-disciplinary study entitled Bakhtin and the Question of the
Subject: Between Philosophy and Literature, a reconstruction of a Bakhtinian theory of
subjectivity, which I hope to finish and submit for publication by the summer of 2007.
CONFERENCES PAPERS ((last 10 years)
"Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject", The 7th International Bakhtin Conference, Moscow
Pedagogical University, Moscow, 26-30 June, 1995.
"The Heterobiography of Joseph K. Conrad", The English Department Faculty Seminar, The
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 26 May 1996.
"'Falk" and the Pathos of Authenticity", The 22nd Annual International Conference on Conrad,
London, 4-6 July, 1996.
"Borderlines and Contraband: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject", A talk given at the
Bakhtin Center, Sheffield University, Sheffield, England, on 15th October 1996
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"The Shattered Mirror of Postmodernity: Shifting Paradigms in Bakhtin's Work". The Ninth
International Bakhtin Conference, The University of Calgary, and the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 24th—26th June, 1997.
“Ethics and Alterity: Bakhtin and Levinas”, A Colloquium on Emmanuel Levinas, organized by
the Wolfson Chair of Jewish Philosophy, Haifa University, 30 December, 1997.
“Bakhtin and Rabelais”, A Faculty Seminar on Early Modernism, The School of History, TelAviv University, 6th January, 1998.
"No Elsewhere, No Alibi: 'The Tale' and the Scopic regime of Modernity", International
conference on Joseph Conrad's Work, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 26 March--1st
April 1998.
“M.M. Bakhtin and the Ontological Fallacy”, an international conference on Character in
Fiction, The Hebrew University Center for Literary Studies, Jerusalem, 4th June 1998.
“M. M. Bakhtin and the Hermaneutics of the Subject: between Philosophy and Literature”, The
6th International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas),
Haifa University, 16-21 August, 1998.
“The a-topia of Subjectivity: Bakhtin meets Levinas”, the Ninth International Bakhtin
Conference, The Free University of Berlin, 26-30 July, 1999.
“Writing and Fratricide: Conrad and the Logic of Ethnography”, the International Conrad
Conference at the university of Kent, Canterbury, England, July 1999 .
“Bakhtin and Conrad” Two lectures given at the University of Trondheim, Norway, November
2000.
“Heart of Darkness and the Ends of Man, Narrative and Silence in Conrad’s Work, The
University of Milan, Italy, April 2001.
“Bakhtin and the Narrative of Subjectivity”, The International Bakhtin Conference, The
University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, July 2001.
“Heart of Darkness and the Ends of Man”, Plenary (keynote) lecture, The International Conrad
Conference, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, August 2002.
Milan seminar, “Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject”, a series of lectures at the interuniversity graduate seminar, Milan, Italy, 2003.
“Traduttore/traditore: Language, Exile, and Betrayal in Lord Jim”, Conrad Conference at Cerisy
Le Salle, France, August 2003.
“The Exilic Unconscious of Lord Jim”, Milan Inter-University Seminar on “Literature and
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Exile”, April, 2004.
“Between Text and Context”, Keynote address (in Hebrew) at a symposium on Textual Studies,
Beit Berl and the Open University, Israel, May 4, 2004.
“Things Pregnant with Words: What Todorov Learned from Bakhtin”, Keynote address at the
Tzvetan Todorov International Connference, Sheffield University, England, 24-27 June 2004.
“The Exilic Unconscious of Lord Jim”, Keynote address at the International Conrad conference,
Opole, Poland, 22-25 September 2004.
"Nostromo and the writing of History", International Colloquium at the Center for Advanced
Study, Oslo, Norway, 21-24 September 2005.
"The Melancholy Generation: Grossman's Book of Interior Grammar", After Testimony
contributors seminar, scheduled for June 2007, Berlin.
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS &, RESEARCH GRANTS
* 1985 British Council Scholarship for study in the U.K.
* 1985-8: ORS: Overseas Research Students Award, Oxford University.
* 1987: Avi-Hai Fellowship, Oxford.
* 1989-1992: A three-year Allon Fellowship, The Israeli Academy of Science.
* 1991: Elected Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford for 1992-1993.
* 1992: A Postdoctoral Rothchild Fellowship (Yad-HaNadiv) for 1992-3.
* 1998: Noted Visiting Scholar for 1988, The English Department, The University of British
Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, July 1998 (due to unforeseen personal circumstances, I
could not take up the offer).
* 2004 The Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, The University of Haifa.
* 2004 Two-year Research Grant from the Israel Science Foundation.
* 2005-6 Fellowship of the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Oslo, Norway for the project
on Modernism and Narrative. (The team members are J. Hillis Miller, Susan Rubin Suleiman,
James Phelan, Beatrice Sandberg, Anniken Greve, Jeremy Hawthorn, Jakob Lothe).
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