Dr. Cynthia Gabbay

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsRomance Literature,General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
KeywordsJewish languages, Poetry, Jewish Archives, Latin America, Jewish translation
Honours and awards

2026: Distinction as “Article of the Year 2024” for the work “Exponential Minor Literatures: A Yiddish Poem of the Shoah in Judeo-Spanish Translation” by the section “Yiddish Studies: Language, Linguistics, and Literature” of the journal The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies vol 86 issue 1 (Brill, 2026).

2013: Grant for Publication: Los ríos metafísicos de Julio Cortázar: de la Lírica al Diálogo. Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2012: “Raul Kirtchuk”'s Award for Research Academic Excellence in Spanish and Latin American Studies for PhD dissertation.

Current contact address

CountryArgentina
CityBuenos Aires
InstitutionUniversidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) - National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)
InstituteLaboratorio de Investigaciones en Ciencas Humanas (LICH)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Susanne Zepp-ZwirnerInstitut für Romanische Philologie (WE 5), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2018

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers