Eran Horowitz, Ph.D

Eran Horowitz recently finished his PhD in Comparative Literature, written between the Freie Universität, Berlin, the Sorbonne, and Tel Aviv University. His dissertation rethinks the concepts of Irony and Formation (Bildung) in Romantic German and French literature. Currently, he works on the culture of the Berlin Salons around 1800, tracing some of the Romantic most celebrated ideas – the Self, Irony, Bildung – to these dialogical and liminal spaces.

He lectures across disciplines: at Tel Aviv University he designed and taught the Core Curriculum course “Literature and the Figure of the Scientist” and led workshops on German and French Romanticism, podcasting, and material memory. Beyond the university, he has taught public courses (Faust; French authors) and curated film-literature programs. 

Eran also translates from French and German into Hebrew. He recently resided in Arles, France, as part of a large translation project of journeys to the East made by European Romantics. He previously translated books by Thomas Mann, Victor Hugo, and Oskar Panizza.