The OCHJS hosts a number of visiting academics each year through the following 3 status options.
Visiting Fellows
Visiting Fellowships of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies are available for postdoctoral researchers and senior scholars through our Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies programme, which hosts four streams of Visiting Fellowships: OCHJS-IHBMR Visiting Fellowships in Manuscript Studies, OSRJL Visiting Fellowships in Rare Jewish Languages, Salo and Jeannette Baron Visiting Fellowships in Jewish History and Yishai Shahar Visiting Fellowships in Jewish Art History. Visiting Fellows are invited to participate in and contribute to the OCHJS’s academic activities (all of which are conducted in English), given shared office space at the Clarendon Institute, issued individual University Cards and receive honoraria. They may be invited to present a paper relating to their research should a suitable opportunity arise. Calls for applications are posted each academic year; to see if any are currently open, click the button below.
No Current Visiting Fellows
Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholars—senior scholars accepted by application to the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies who come to Oxford to work on their current, independent research projects—are advised on how to apply for a Bodleian Readers Card to access the Bodleian Libraries as well as given access to shared office space in the Clarendon Institute. Visiting Scholars are invited and encouraged to attend and participate in the academic activities of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, all of which are conducted in English. They may be invited to present a paper relating to their research should a suitable opportunity arise.
Individuals wishing to be academic visitors at the University of Oxford and obtain a University Card may apply to be affiliated with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES). For information, please email Trudi Pinkerton at trudi.pinkerton@ames.ox.ac.uk.
Current Visiting Scholars
Dr Mei-Tal Nadler
Mei-Tal Nadler is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University of Israel, and a Research Fellow at Heksherim Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University. Her projects and publications focus on the intersection of ideology, nationalism, ethics, and space in Israeli literature as part of the Israeli public discourse. Most recently, she has been working on the research project “Local Poetics of Israeli Fiction” in conjunction with Heksherim Institute and the University of Cambridge, which offers a new historiography of post-statehood Israeli authors. She is also an associate editor of two forthcoming volumes dedicated to this project in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. Since 2021, Dr Nadler has been a research member of the “Thinking Group: A Partnership-Based Jewish-Palestinian Peace” at the Van Leer Institute and Minerva Center for Human Rights. Previously she served as a Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute in the program for “Human Rights and Judaism”.
Dr Nadler is a co-author of the innovative 3-Volume series The History of Hebrew Literature (2021, The OUI Press) which outlines the history of Hebrew literature from the mid-eighteenth century to the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel. Her first poetry book, Exercises in Electricity (2014, Yedioth Press), won the “Teva prize” and the “Goldberg Prize” for Literature. Her poems have been translated into multiple languages. In 2008 she received the Israeli Minister of Culture award for Young Poets, and in 2015 she was nominated for the American Pushcart Prize in the World Poetry category.
At the OCHJS, she will be working on a project entitled: “1948 and the Archive of Tomorrow: Autobiographical Novels in the Post-Oslo Era”.
Junior Visiting Scholars
Individuals advanced in their doctoral or postdoctoral work may apply for Junior Visiting Scholar status at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies to carry out their own independent research. Junior Visiting Scholars are invited to attend and participate in the events and activities of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (all of which are conducted in English) and will be advised as to how they may apply for a Bodleian Readers Card to access the Bodleian Library system. However, Junior Visiting Scholars are not permitted to participate in activities of the University of Oxford more broadly; those wishing to do so must apply for visiting student status separately through the University and at a cost.