Milette Shamir

Shamir completed a Ph.D. at Brandeis University studying under Michael Timo Gilmore and Wai Chee Dimock.^[1] Her 1996 dissertation was titled, The Cult of Privacy: Domestic Space and Gender in Antebellum Fiction.^[2]

Shamir researches American literature and culture in the nineteenth century.^[1] In 2006, she cofounded the American studies program at Tel Aviv University.^[1] She served as its head for thirteen years.^[1] From 2006 to 2009, she was chair of the department of English and American studies.^[1] In 2012, she founded the B.A. in liberal arts, an international student program and served as its academic director until 2016.^[1] From 2012 to 2015, Shamir served on the editorial board of American Literature.^[1] She and Irene Tucker are the editors-in-chief of Poetics Today.^[1] She is the vice president of Tel Aviv University and manages international academic collaborations.^[1]

• Shamir, Milette; Travis, Jennifer, eds. (2002). Boys Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-12034-0.^[3]
• Shamir, Milette (2006). Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3906-5.^[4]
• Shamir, Milette; Zakim, Michael, eds. (2008). Privacy: The History of a Modern Idea. Special Issue of Zmanim (in Hebrew). Open University Press.
• Ryan, Barbara; Shamir, Milette, eds. (2016). Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3417-1.^[5]