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Associates and Researches | Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies

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The Faculty of Humanities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem, 9190501

 

Department Head: Dr Claudia Kedar, claudia.kedar@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Advisor for BA Students: Dr Or Hasson, or.hasson@mail.huji.ac.il

Director of Literature MA Studies: Prof. Ruth Fine, ruth.fine@mail.huji.ac.il

Director of Historical MA Studies: Dr Claudia Kedar, claudia.kedar@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Advisors for PhD Students: Prof. Ruth Fine (Literature), Prof. Aldina Quintana (Languages and Linguistics) and Dr Claudia Kedar (History)

Students Exchange Advisor: Dr Or Hasson, or.hasson@mail.huji.ac.il

 

For administrative matters, please contact

Dina Belostotsky
dinab@savion.huji.ac.il
Tel. 02-5883616
Room: 45404
Office hours: Sun., Mon., Wed., Thur., 10:00-13:00.

 

Associates and Researches

Yohanan  Bar-Yafe Szemiñski

Prof. (Emeritus) Yohanan Bar-Yafe Szemiñski

Prof. Yohanan Bar Yafe Szemiñski (Jan Szemiñski) is an Ethno-historian, specialized in Andean (Inca) oral tradition, history of the Inca Empire, and colonial history of the Inca. His current research includes the geographical limits of the Inca world, the use of Andean languages as a historical source for cultural changes from the 15th to the 20th century, and the construction of a colonial Quechua database (at the present it includes 102,000 items).

Myrna  Solotorevsky

Prof. (Emeritus) Myrna Solotorevsky

Prof. Solotorevsky is a lecturer at the Iberian and Latin American Section. This year she teaches the M.A. course "2666 by Roberto Bolaño". Her research areas include: Contemporary Latin-American literature and literary theory; the relation between literature and paraliterature; the relation between the "world" and "writing"; ontological and epistemological issues related to the literary text.