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About Prof.��Evron:

Nir Evron is Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Tel Aviv University. He holds a B.A. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University.

Prof. Evron works primarily on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature and culture, with forays into Hebrew and European contexts. His first book, The Blossom Which We Are: The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds (2020), is a literary history of the emergence and dissemination of the trope of cultural extinction—the terminal ending of a collective form of life—in European, American, and Hebrew literatures. His current book project explores the burst of animal stories in turn-of-the-century American literature.

He is the co-editor, together with Roi Tartakovsky, of a recent special issue titled The AI Revolution: Speculations on Authorship, Pedagogy, and the Future of the Profession (Poetics Today, June 2024), which brings together prominent literary scholars and theorists to muse about the future of humanist learning and teaching in the age of Large Language Models.

Recent Publications:

“Introduction: The AI-Revolution: Speculations on Authorship, Pedagogy and the Future of the Profession.” Poetics Today, Volume 45:2, June 2024.

“LLMs and the Amazing Shrinking University.” Poetics Today, Volume 45:2, June 2024.

“Herder on Shakespeare, Nominalism and Obsolescence.” Dibur, Issue 12-3 (2022).

“‘Totally Vanished… Like a Pinch of Dust’: Edith Wharton and the Theme of Cultural Extinction” in The Bloomsbury Companion to Edith Wharton, ed. Emily J. Orlando, (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), pp. 209-22.

“Hannah Arendt, Thinking, Metaphor.” Telos, Issue 196, Fall 2021, pp. 9-30.

Response to: “‘Isn’t That French?’: Edith Wharton Revisits the [International Theme’” by Virginia Ricard. Edith Wharton Review, Vol. 36, Issue 2, August 2020.

“On Finding the Mortal World Enough: Extinction, Value and the Crisis of the Humanities.” Contemporary Pragmatism, Volume 17: Issue 1, 2020, pp. 48-69.

“‘Fog-shaped Men’: The Remnant-figure in American Regionalism.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Volume 52.3, Winter 2019.

“Tribal Liberalism.” Mafteach: Lexical Review of Political Thought, Volume 3, 2019 [in Hebrew].

“Foreign Means to Local Ends: Bialik, Emerson and the Uses of America in 1920s Palestine.” Journal of Transnational American Studies, Volume 9.1, 2018.

“‘Interested in Big Things, and Happy in Small Ways’: Curiosity in Edith Wharton.” Twentieth-Century Literature, Volume 64.1, Spring 2018, pp. 79-100.

“Edith Wharton in Tel Aviv: The Curious Case of Undine Spragg.” Edith Wharton Review. Volume 33.1 Spring 2017.

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