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Yael is an associate professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is the associate provost of the Rothberg International School and works on 'The Evolution of Attention in Modern and Contemporary Culture' at the Mandel Scholion Research Center. Her monographs include Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad´s Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2020) and her work on modernism, postmodernism, narratology, the subject and disability has appeared in journals and volumes including The Conradian, Conradiana, Partial Answers, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of Beckett Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Key words:

Joseph Conrad, Poststructuralism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Narratology, Subjectivity, Creative Agency, Theory, The Interruption of Writing.