Chana Morgenstern
BA (New College of California, San Francisco), MFA (Bard College), PhD (Brown)
College roles
Fellow (A)
College Lecturer in English
University roles
University Associate Professor in English
Biography
Dr Hana Morgenstern is a scholar of Middle Eastern literature and cultural histories of the Left, with a specialisation in Palestine and Israel, including Jewish, Hebrew, Palestinian and Arabic literatures and literary cultures.
Dr Morgenstern received her MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University , where she studied with Professor Ariella Azoulay. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bard College. Dr Morgenstern is co-founder and co-investigator of Revolutionary Papers, which is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of anticolonial and anti-imperial production. She is also co-founder of Archives of the Disappeared, an interdisciplinary research initiative for the study of communities, social movements, spaces, literatures and cultures that have been destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence.
Dr Morgenstern received her MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University , where she studied with Professor Ariella Azoulay. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bard College. Dr Morgenstern is co-founder and co-investigator of Revolutionary Papers, which is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of anticolonial and anti-imperial production. She is also co-founder of Archives of the Disappeared, an interdisciplinary research initiative for the study of communities, social movements, spaces, literatures and cultures that have been destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence.
Dr Morgenstern’s forthcoming book, Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print (EUP 2026), reconstructs a history of anticolonial literary and cultural collaborations between Palestinians and Jews in Palestine/Israel, from the heyday of decolonization in the 1950s to the present era. The manuscript will be published with a companion anthology, A People's Literature in Palestine/Israel: anticolonial and socialist writing, which includes English translations of the stories, poems and essays that comprise the source material for Cultural Co-Resistance. A full list of Dr Morgenstern's other publications can be found at www.hanamorgenstern.com