Nancy Ezer, Ph.D.

Lecturer of Hebrew at UCLA

• Teaching experience in Elementary, Intermediate Advanced, and Conversational Hebrew
• Developed courses in Conversational Hebrew, Modern Scholarly Hebrew, Israeli Society through Hebrew Songs and Vides, and Israel through Contemporary Short Stories and Films (in English)
• Created Honors Discussion Sections on Hebrew through Songs, Hebrew through the Newspaper, and Hebrew through Sidur Prayers
• Authored and designed a Hebrew Electronic Workbook with audio playback for Elementary Hebrew courses

Committee on Instructional Improvement Programs, Office of Instructional Development

“Between Comic Terror and Jewish Humor: Yitzhak Laor’s As Much as You Give Me,” Collection of Essays on Yitzhak Laor’s Work, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Israel.

“Depression and Melancholia in Brenner’s Breakdown and Bereavement,” Hador, The Hebrew Annual of America, V. 4.

“Hebrew Electronic Workbook: Rigorous Grammar Practice Outside the Classroom,” Hebrew Higher Education, Published at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the National Association of Professors of Hebrew in Institutions of Higher Learning, V. 13.

“From Text to Context: The Reader and the Signification Process in Yuval Shimoni’s A Room,” Ma’ase Sipur, Bar- Ilan University Press, Israel.

“Beyond the Stereotypes of Old Age: Women and Aging in Joshua Kenaz’s Novel The Way to the Cats,” Hador, The Hebrew Annual of America, V. 3.           

“The Terror Within and the Pagan Discourse: Yitzhak Laor’s Postmodern Satire And With My Spirit, My Corpse,” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature, V. 22, The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, Israel.

“Mother Daughter Dialectics: Socialization of Survival in David Grossman’s novel The Book of Internal Grammar,” Hador, The Hebrew Annual of America, V.2.

“Black Humor and the Grotesque in Yitzhak Laor’s Novel Ecce Homo,” Alei-Siah, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Israel.

“Ideology, Melancholy and Postmodern Irony in Itzhak Laor’s The People, Food Fit for a King,” Alpayim, Israel..

“Allegory and Simulacra in Yuval Simoni’s ‘The Art of War’,” Iton 77, V. 288, Israel..

“Rena Lee’s Stories Collection: Far From Home,” Hadoar, V. 82, 2, New York.

“Flirtation in S.Y. Agnon’s Shira,” History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band, ed. William Cutter and David C. Jacobson, Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University Press, Providence.

“From the Melancholy of an Individual to the Melancholy of a Social Class: From Brenner’s Breakdown and Bereavement to Shabtai’s Past Continuous,” Dappim Research in Literature, Haifa University, Israel.

Literature and Ideology, Papyrus Publishing House at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Workbook Hebrew 1ABC, Academic Publishing Service, UCLA

Nominee for the Brian P. Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology

Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, New York, “A Romantic-Postmodern Novel: A New Hybrid in Lea Aini’s someone must be here, presented at The National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature.

University College London, “Between Comic Terror and Jewish Humor: Yitzhak Laor's As Much as You Give Me,” presented at NAPH International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature.

McGill University, Montreal Canada, “Hebrew Electronic Workbook: Rigorous Grammar Practice outside the Classroom,” presented at NAPH International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature.