Research
Publications
Academic Articles
"Counter-Institutions, Counter-Politics and Counter-Cultures of Anticolonial Periodicals in the Global South," Radical History Review 150 (October 2024). With M. Ahmed and K. Benson.
"The People’s Camp: Palestinian-Marxism and the Magazine in Mizrahi Fiction," The Cambridge Handbook of Hebrew Literature, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2024).
Essays
Journal: Special Issue
Revolutionary Papers: Anticolonial Periodicals from the Global South: 1920-1990, edited with an introduction by Hana Morgenstern and Mahvish Ahmad, Radical History Review (expected 2024).
Forthcoming Books
Monograph
Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature, Translation and Magazines (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025). Forthcoming <read more>
Co-Resistant Literature: A Collection (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025). [Accompanying translation volume] Forthcoming <read more>
Edited Volume
The Arab Left Reader: Key Documents from Democratic Social, Cultural and Literary Movements in the Arab World, edited with an introduction by Chana Morgenstern and Mezna Qato. In Progress
Projects
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Co-convener
An interdisciplinary research initiative for the study and documentation of communities, social movements, spaces, lifeworlds, literatures and cultures that have been destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence. Featuring monthly seminars and workshops.
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Co-director
An international, transdisciplinary research and teaching initiative on anti-colonial, anti-imperial and related left periodicals of the Global South. It includes over forty researchers, editors, archivists and movement organisers from around the world.
Co-convener
International research initiative on the study of literatures of Middle East and North Africa.
Features a multi-year seminar with faculty from Notre Dame University, Cambridge University and Harvard University and writers across the world.
About
Dr Hana Morgenstern is Associate Professor in Postcolonial and Middle Eastern Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow at Newnham College. Dr Morgenstern is a scholar of Middle Eastern literature and cultural histories of the Left, with a specialisation in Palestine and Israel, including Jewish, Hebrew, Palestinian and Arabic literatures and literary cultures.
Her upcoming book Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature, Translation and Magazines (EUP 2025), reconstructs a history of anticolonial Palestinian and Jewish literary and cultural collaborations, from the heyday of decolonization in the 1950s to the present day.
Morgenstern is co-founder and co-investigator of Revolutionary Papers: a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of anticolonial and anti-imperial production. She is also co-founder of Archives of the Disappeared, an interdisciplinary research initiative for the study of communities, social movements, spaces, literatures and cultures that have been destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence.
photo by Christa Holka
Teaching &
Research areas
Middle Eastern literatures | Arabic Literature
Palestinian literature | Hebrew and Jewish Literatures
Comparative literature | Anticolonial literatures and cultures
Global South Marxisms | Commitment literature
Literature and social movements | Aesthetics & politics
Intellectual histories of the Middle East | Translation
Histories & cultures of the Arab Left | Periodicals study
Feminist and queer theory | Anticolonial and postcolonial theory Archival theory
Literature and Colonisation in Palestine/Israel
Postcolonial and Anticolonial Theory
Capitalism, Ecology and Decolonisation | Radical Reading
Anticolonial Literatures of East Africa and the Caribbean
Literature and Film in Colonial Times
Judaism and Decolonisation
Third World Aesthetics: Anticolonial Periodicals and Cultural Scenes
Decolonizing Education in Practice
Queer Autotheory
Selected Courses & Workshops
