Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Dr. Cynthia Gabbay

Literary Scholar from Israel is Visiting Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin . No 014/2019 from Jan 17, 2019 The literary scholar Dr. Cynthia Gabbay has received a Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She will be a visiting scholar at Freie Universität Berlin until April 2020, where she will explore the intellectual biography of the feminist Micaela Feldman de Etchebéhère (1902-1992). Dr. Cynthia Gabbay's main areas of research include modern Latin American literatures, political art, and Spanish-Jewish literatures. Dr. Gabbay's academic host is Susanne Zepp at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Freie Universität, who is herself a Humboldtian, i.e., a former recipient of a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Cynthia Gabbay earned her doctorate in Romance languages and literatures and Latin American studies in 2012 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She then worked at the Institute of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel (2013-2015), at the Elyachar Center and at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Religious Encounters (2015-2017), and at the Institute of History (2017-2018), the latter all at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.