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2120 CHASS INT SOUTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Jaffe-Berg, Erith

Associate Professor of Theatre

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Theatre


Biography

Erith Jaffe-Berg has published articles on multilingual theatre, commedia dell'arte and translation theory in il cannocchiale, Early Theatre, The European Studies Journal, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Metamorphoses, Translation Perspectives, Quaderni d'Italinistica, and Testualecritica. Her work on the representation of the Middle East in theatre appears in Text & Presentation and Quaderni di Studi Arabi. Her translation into Hebrew of the play Polygraph by the French-Canadian playwrights Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard appears in Canadian Plays: An Anthology (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2005). Recently, she contributed an essay on the Comédiens Italiens to the anthology International Dramaturgy: Translation & Transformations in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker (Peter Lang, 2008). Her book The Multilingual Art of Commedia dell’Arte is forthcoming from Legas, Ottawa.

Degrees

PhD Drama/Theatre 1998

University of Toronto

MA Drama/Theatre 1995

University of Toronto

BA History-Interdisciplinary 1994

UC Berkeley

Awards

Canadian Embassy, Faculty Enrichment and Research Grant for research work, 2001.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, "A Literature of Their Own? Women Writing: Venice, London, Paris, 1550-1700," The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.
UCR Excellence in Mentoring grant 2007-2008