Bio

Vered Karti Shemtov teaches Hebrew and comparative literature in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where she also serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Shemtov is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Dibur.

Her publications include Changing Rhythms: Towards a Theory of Prosody in Cultural Context (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2012) and several co-edited volumes, including Spoken Word, Written Word: Rethinking the Representation of Speech in Literature (2015), 1948: History and Responsibility (2013), and Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space (2005). She is also the author of numerous articles, including “Limbotopia: The ‘New Present’ and the Literary Imagination” (Journal of Comparative Literature, 2018, with Elana Gomel); “A Sense of No Ending: Contemporary Literature and the Refusal to Write the Future” (Dibur Literary Journal, 2018, with Elana Gomel); and “Poetry and Dwelling: From Martin Heidegger to the Songbook of the Tent Revolution in Israel” (Prooftexts). Her scholarship also examines the works of Amos Oz, Yehuda Amichai, Michal Govrin, A. B. Yehoshua, and Zeruya Shalev. She is the author of the entry “Hebrew Poetry: 1781–2010” in the revised edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.

Her current research project focuses on the poetics of rage and the literary, philosophical, and political forms through which rage is expressed and transformed in poetry and narrative.

Academic Appointments

  • Senior Lecturer, Comparative Literature

Honors & Awards

  • Chancellor's Award and Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (1999)
  • Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University (2006)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Past Conference Board Member, National Association of Professors of Hebrew
  • Faculty Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies
  • Editor in Chief, Dibur Journal (2014 - Present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Prooftexts
  • Advisory Board Member, Venice Center for Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies
  • Advisory Board, Journal for Jewish Social Studies (2024 - Present)
  • Member, Modern Language Association
  • Member, National Association of Professors of Hebrew
  • Member, Association of Jewish Studies
  • Member, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
  • Test Committee Chair, SAT Hebrew (up to 8/2011)
  • Past Board Member, Taube Foundation
  • Coordinator, Hebrew@Stanford, Stanford University
  • Past Board Member, Lively Arts, Stanford University

Professional Education

  • B.A., Tel Aviv University, Israel, Comparative Literature
  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature

Contact

  • Academic
    vshemtov@stanford.edu
    Department: Comparative Literature Position: Sr Lecturer
    • Building 260, Room 214
    • Stanford,  California  94305-2006 

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2006

Links

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • “Limbotopia: The “New Present” and the Literary Imagination Beyond Is/real, Weiss, V., Gomel , E. Liverpool University Press. 2026
  • And They Lived Separately Ever After The Two-State Solution as Literary Ending AMOS OZ Shemtov, V. edited by Omer-Sherman, R. 2023: 299-326

    View details for Web of Science ID 000952893900017

  • "Now we shall reveal a little secret" first person plural and lyrical fluidity in the works of Amos Oz JOURNAL OF ISRAELI HISTORY Shemtov, V. 2021

    View details for DOI 10.1080/13531042.2020.1861498

    View details for Web of Science ID 000605690500001

  • Limbotopia: The "New Present" and the Literary Imagination COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Gomel, E., Shemtov, V. 2018; 70 (1): 60–71

    View details for DOI 10.1215/00104124-4344076

    View details for Web of Science ID 000427682700003

  • Poetry and Dwelling: From Martin Heidegger to the Songbook of the Tent Revolution in Israel PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Shemtov, V. 2015; 35 (2-3): 271-290

    View details for DOI 10.2979/prooftexts.35.2-3.06

    View details for Web of Science ID 000211076300006

  • History and Responsibility: Hebrew Literature and 1948 Special Issue of Jewish Social Studies edited by Shemtov, V., Eshel, A., Hever, H. 2013
  • Dan Pagis: Poetic lines without a Home in Collected Essays on the work of Dan Pagis Shemtov, V. edited by Hever, H. Bialik Insittuion, TBP, Tel Aviv . 2013
  • Changing Rhythms: Towards a Prosodic Theory in Literary Context Shemtov, V. Bar Ilan University Press. 2012
  • Technology and Language Teaching in Higher Education: Some thoughts about the State of the Field Gadish Shemtov, V. 2012
  • Dwelling in the Stanzas of the Text: The Concept of 'Bayt' in Hebrew Poetry Sh'ma Shemtov, V. 2012
  • Hebrew Literature 1920 to the present Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Shemtov, V. edited by Greene, R., Cushman, S., Cavanagh, C., Ramazani, J., Rouzer, P. Princeton University Press. 2012
  • Hebrew Poetry: 1781-1920 Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Shemtov, V. edited by Greene, R., Cushman, S., Cavanagh, C., Ramazani, J., Rouzer, P. Princeton University Press. 2012
  • Technology and Language Teaching in Higher Education: Some thoughts about the State of the Field Issues in the Acquisition and Teaching of Hebrew Shemtov, V. edited by Feuer, A., Armon-Lotem, S., Cooperman, B. Bethesda: University Press of Maryland. 2009
  • Attraversando I Confini: Dallo Spazio Letterario Alle Frontiere Geografico-Politiche Nei Romanzi la Sposa Liberata Opera Letteraria di Yehoshua Shemtov, V. 2008
  • The Bible in Contemporary Israeli Literature: Text and Place in Zeruya Shalev's Husband and Wife and Michal Govrin's Snapshots Hebrew Studies Shemtov, V. 2006
  • Between a Jewish and an Israeli Perspective of Space: A Reading in Yehuda Amichai’s “Jewish Travel” and “Israeli Travel" JSS Shemtov, V. 2005
  • Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space Special issue ofJewish Social Studies edited by Shemtov, V., Fonrobert, C. 2005
  • Metrical hybridization: Prosodic ambiguities as a form of social dialogue POETICS TODAY Shemtov, V. 2001; 22 (1): 65-87

    View details for Web of Science ID 000169721100004

  • Metrical Hybridization: Prosodic ambiguities as a form of social dialogues Poetics Today Shemtov, V. 2001