ANNIE KANTAR BEN-HILLEL Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (GPA 4.0 / 4.0 scale) University of Maryland at College Park, 2001 Graduate Fellow, 1998-99 Thesis Title: Because Fire Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude (GPA 3.98 / 4.0 scale) Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Double Major: English and Jewish Studies University of Maryland at College Park, 1998 INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS Fulbright Scholar to Israel, October 2001- July 2002 Project: Translating Israeli poetry CERTIFICATES TESOL Advanced Practitioner Certificate, 2016 Advanced studies in EFL pedagogy: specialized in spoken grammar acquisition PUBLICATIONS (published under Annie Kantar) Books Translation from the Hebrew of With This Night, the final collection of poetry that Leah Goldberg published during her lifetime, University of Texas Press (June 2011). Shortlisted for the ALTA Prize in Literary Translation Reviewed in: Diplomats of the Literary World, Jerusalem Post, Dec. 2011; the Jewish Book Council, Nov. 2011; and Menorah Review, Summer/Fall 2013. (Virginia Commonwealth University). Poetry Syntax, Afterworld, and Ghazal for Two forthcoming in Saint Katherine s Review, Spring 2018 About Your New Place forthcoming in Birmingham Review, Spring 2018 Of the Eye, Pheromonal, and In These Stanzas forthcoming in The Adirondack Review, Fall 2017 Laziz the Tiger Transferred from World s Worst Zoo forthcoming in Anomolous, August 2017 Vow in Cincinnati Review, May 2017 Why You Should Put Everything You Write Away for a Month and Neonate in Literary Imagination, December 2013 Russian Doll multi-media collaboration for Diesel Inc., Winter 2005 Summer Project in Barrow Street Review, Summer 2002 The Second Person in Born magazine, Winter 2001 I See My Grandmother Again and For you, a poem in Post Road, Spring 2000 I remember in The American Literary Review, Fall 1999 Translating in The American Literary Review, Spring 1999
Poems in Anthologies "World" in The Art of Poetry, ed. Christine Perrin, Classical Academic Press (2009) Translation of Nights (Leah Goldberg), forthcoming in The Posner Library of Jewish Civilization Poetry Translations in Journals Translations of piyutim by Shlomo Ibn Gabirol, Avraham Ibn Musa, and others for Piyut North America Leah Goldberg, "From Songs of the Strange Woman" in Poetry Daily, July 2011 Leah Goldberg, And a Third Autumn in Verse Daily, July 2011 Leah Goldberg, "Journey Without a Name" and "From Songs of My Beloved Land" in Poetry International, March 2010 Leah Goldberg, About Myself, And a Third Autumn, Looking at a Bee, and Toward Myself in Smartish Pace, Jan. 2008 Leah Goldberg, The Shortest Journey in New Translations, Dec. 2007 Leah Goldberg, From Songs of Two Autumns in Tikkun, Sept.-Oct. 2007 Yonatan Ratosh, For the Sin, in Tikkun, Sept.-Oct. 2003 Prose Making It Real: Poetry in the Trump Era forthcoming in Poet Lore, Fall 2017 About Your Comment: The Arts Were Doing Just Fine Before 1965 in Entropy, March 2017 On Effacement in WomenArts Quarterly, January 2016 Leah Goldberg, the Translator in Times of Israel, May 2015 Interview with Peter Cole, Bookslut, November 2013 Interview with Joy Ladin, Ilanot Review, Summer 2012 Preface to Life Sentences: Selected Poems of Dorothea Rosa Herliany, translated from Indonesian by Harry Aveling. Magelang: IndonesiaTera Press, 2004. WRITING AWARDS 2011 American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Translation Prize, Short List 2001 Bread Loaf Writers Conference: Scholarship 2001 Academy of American Poets Prize, Second Place 2000 Academy of American Poets Prize, First Place 2000 Bread Loaf Writers Conference: Scholarship 2000 Discovery/The Nation Competition: Semifinalist 1999 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, Poetry magazine: Finalist READINGS, PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS 2017 Reading from With This Night at Poetry Now conference, Tel Aviv University, Department of English, November 2016 2017 Panel member, Why Is Poetry Necessary, at Poetry Now conference, Tel Aviv University, Department of English, November 2016 2016 Panel member, ETAI (English Teachers Association in Israel) Annual Conference, July 2016, Ashkelon. Title of presentation: Israeli College Students Perceived Needs in English
2106 Research on Israeli College Students Perceived Needs in English published on ETAI website, Fall 2016 2013 Reading from With This Night: JTS and Columbia University, Department of Hebrew Literature, New York 2013 Reading from With This Night: Washington DC Jewish Community Center 2013 Workshop on Leah Goldberg s poetry: Hebrew Department, Ramaz High School, New York 2013 Reading from With This Night: University of Scranton, Department of English and Jewish Studies Program 2012 "And Here, She Is Shadow": Yale University, Department of Comparative Literature -Talk on Leah Goldberg and With This Night, and workshop in literary translation 2012 Reading from With This Night: New York University Department of English Creative Writing Program reading series 2012 And Here, She Is Shadow : University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Studies Program - Talk on Leah Goldberg and the process of translating With This Night 2012 Reading from With This Night: Stern College (New York), Department of English 2011 Paper on translating With This Night, delivered at academic conference dedicated to the work of Leah Goldberg, Tel Aviv University, May 2011 2009 Paper delivered at UTELI Conference, Tel Aviv University Title of paper: "Reaching out Online to Our Writing Students" 2009 Guest Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of English as a Foreign Language Title of workshop: "Engaging Our Advanced Students: A Practicum for Teaching Writing" 2009 Guest Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Department of English Title of workshop: "The Preservation of Spirit: Questions in Translating Poetry" 2009 Guest Lecturer, Bar Ilan University, Department of English as a Foreign Language Title of workshop: "Writing on the Web with our Advanced Students" 2008 Guest Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Department of English Title of workshop: "Chance and Choice in Translating Poetry" 2002 Guest Lecturer, Beit Berl College, Department of English Title of lecture: What the Dog Registers: Challenges of Translating Tone 1998 Graduation Speaker, University of Maryland, Departments of English and Comparative Literature
GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS 2005-06 Bianca Marcus Millen Scholarship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1998-99 Graduate Fellow, University of Maryland Department of English 1998 Spiegel Creative Writing Award, University of Maryland Department of English Given to the graduate whose work in Creative Writing is deemed to be most outstanding. 1996-97 Leadership Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem One-Year Program Undergraduate study abroad junior year 1994-98 Presidential Scholar, University of Maryland UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE TEACHING 2014-present Shalem College (Jerusalem, Israel) Director of English Program: Responsible for all aspects of curriculum and pedagogy. Courses designed and taught: Advanced English I and II, Short American Fiction, Literary Translation, Creative Writing, Literature and Writing for Native Speakers 2003-14 Bar Ilan University (Tel Aviv, Israel), Instructor English as a Foreign Language: Advanced Reading Comprehension Courses and Academic Writing Undergraduate and Graduate Programs 2004-14 Metropolitan State University (Minneapolis, MN, USA), Instructor and designer of various courses: WRIT 599/Topics: Translation of Creative and Professional Texts Graduate course on translation LIT 330 Children's Literature (co-taught, online) 2004-present WRIT 331 Writing in Your Major (designed and teach online course in Academic Writing) 2007 14 Hadassah College (Jerusalem, Israel), Instructor English as a Foreign Language, Department of English Designer and Instructor of course in Creative and Academic Writing 2003-11 Seminar Hakibbutzim College (Tel Aviv, Israel), Instructor Course in Creative Writing, Honors Program Director of Service Project in Creative Writing 2004-05 Haifa University, Instructor Pre-advanced English 1999-2000 University of Maryland, Instructor English 297 - Beginning Poetry Workshop English 294 - Introduction to Creative Writing
UNIVERSITY TEACHING AWARDS 2017 Metropolitan State University (Minneapolis, MN, USA) Community Faculty Professional Development Grant for literary research at the Berg Collection, New York. 2010, 2011 Metropolitan State University (Minneapolis, MN, USA) President's Circle of Engagement Teaching Award 2005 Metropolitan State University (Minneapolis, MN, USA) Community Faculty Professional Development Grant for literary research at the Poets House in New York City. 2000 University of Maryland Department of English, Distinguished Teaching Prize UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2009 Committee member, graduate creative thesis, Department of English, Creative Writing Program, Bar Ilan University 2007-08 MA Reading and Writing Course Curriculum Committee Co-chair Bar Ilan University, Department of English as a Foreign Language 2005 Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders), a national service-learning initiative, Metropolitan State University (USA) 2005-14 Reading Placement Exam for MA Students Committee member Responsible for designing assessments for incoming MA students Bar Ilan University, Department of English as a Foreign Language 1999 Creative Writing Faculty Search Committee member, University of Maryland ONLINE LEARNING DEVELOPMENT 2008 Metropolitan State University (Minneapolis, MN USA) Designed online course, WRIT 331 Writing in Your Major Co-designed online course, LIT 330 Children's Literature 2007 Participated in six-week online course development training workshop OTHER TEACHING 2013 Day-long Master Class on Metaphor, The Writing Pad, Beit Zayit 2010-13 Emunah Women s Organization, Jerusalem Teacher of Creative Writing seminar
2001 Writing and Imagination Instructor (Grades 5-7) Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth Designed and taught an integrated literature and writing curriculum for gifted and talented children 1998-01 Hebrew Language and Jewish Studies Teacher (Grades 7-12) Adas Israel Religious School, Washington, D.C. 2000-01 University Park Elementary School, College Park, Maryland Fiction Enrichment Teacher (volunteer) 1998-99 CHOICE Program for remedial high school students, University of Maryland Literature and Writing Tutor (volunteer) 1997 Poetry Teacher Minneapolis Public Schools, School of Extended Learning (Grades 4-6) LANGUAGES English mother tongue, Hebrew professional proficiency, Intermediate spoken Arabic, Basic French