Prof. Galia Yanoshevsky is Head of the French Culture Department at Bar-Ilan University (2009-2012, 2020-) and an active member of ADARR research group (Tel-Aviv, Bar-Ilan). She is a discourse analyst working at the crossroads of literature and journalism through a multi-modal approach combining text, image, and performance. Her early research dealt with the New Novel in France, manifestos, and the literary interview. In her current research she investigates “unnoble” genres such as scam letters and tourist guidebooks. Between 2016-2020 she led an ISF funded research on the representations of collective memory in tourist guidebooks. She is currently working on a Digital Humanities project which delves into photobooks of Israel.

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Discourse analysis with special interest in genres: media genres (old and new media), hybrid genres
2. Rhetoric and argumentation

• Visual argumentation
• Non-persuasive genres
• Multimodal discourse: visual and textual compounds in old and new media

1. The circulation and repetition of texts and images across genres in literary contexts and in the context of national identity construction.
2. Literature – para-literary genres, scam studies, genres at the cross-section of media and literature
3. Twentieth-Twenty-first century literature in France

• The New Novel in France, especially their theoretical writing and reception (Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Roland Barthes)
• Author portraits (the sociology of literature)
• The interview, literary debates
• Transmedial literature (from page to stage)
• Life stories (of immigrants)

1. Tourism discourse: Constructing national identities through guidebooks and photobooks, national identity, nation branding