Research Interests: Spanish Golden Age Literature, Semiotics and Literary Theory, The Work of Cervantes, Contemporary Ibero-American literature, The Work of Reinaldo Arenas, Rewriting, Empathy in Literature.
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Ofek Kehila is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Latin-American Studies. He received the President's stipend and the Mandel-Scholion stipend, taking part in the Mandel School PhD Honors Program and in the Mandel-Scholion research group “In Someone Else’s Shoes - An Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Study of Empathy in History, Society, and Culture”. His PhD dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. Ruth Fine, explores the phenomenon of rewriting in literature while focusing on the works of the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas.
