Bio


See bio at: https://dlcl.stanford.edu/people/vered-karti-shemtov

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 Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies (6 years of service)
  • Coordinator, Hebrew@Stanford, Stanford University
  • Past Board Member, Taube Foundation
  • Member, National Association of Professors of Hebrew
  • Past Board Member, Lively Arts, Stanford University
  • Core Executive Committee Member, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University
  • Editorial Board Member, Prooftexts
  • Conference Board Member, National Association of Professors of Hebrew
  • Advisory Board Member, Venice Center for Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies
  • Test Committee Chair, SAT Hebrew (up to 8/2011)
  • Review Editor, Hebrew Studies Journal, Modern Hebrew (2006 - 2006)
  • Member, Modern Language Association
  • Member, Association of Jewish Studies
  • Member, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Professional Education


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

Stanford Advisees


All Publications


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