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Mark. H. Gelber (born 1951, New York City) is an American-Israeli scholar of comparative literature and German-Jewish literature and culture. He received his B.A. magna cum laude and with high honors in Letters and German (Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University, 1972). He also studied at the University of Bonn, the University of Grenoble, and Tel Aviv University. He was accepted for graduate studies as a Lewis Farmington Fellow at Yale University and he received his M.A. (1974), M.Phil. with high honors (1979), and Ph.D. from Yale University (1980). In the same year he accepted an appointment as post-doctoral lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Except for guest professorships and periods of time spent as a research fellow abroad, he has been affiliated with BGU since that time. His research topics include: German-Jewish literature and culture, comparative literature, exile theory and the literature of exile, cultural Zionism, early Zionist literature and journalism, literary anti-Semitism, autobiography and biography, and the practice of literary reception. He lectures frequently at international meetings and conferences in Israel, Europe, and the United States. == Positions and awards == Gelber won Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowships in 1991-92 and in 2004 (Univ. Tübingen, Freie Universität Berlin), in addition to several DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) research stipends. He has been a guest professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1985–87), a David Herzog visiting professor at the University of Graz (1996, 2008), guest professor at the University of Maribor (2007), Blaustein visiting professor at Yale University in Judaic Studies (2006), honorary research fellow at the University of Auckland (2011), guest professor of German literature at the Universiteit Antwerpen (2013), DAAD-Gastprofessor at the RWTH Aachen (2013), Taub Center guest professor at New York University (2013), and guest professor at Renmin University, Beijing (2015). Since 2008 Gelber directs the Research Center for Austrian and German Studies at Ben-Gurion University.〔Visit the (Center for German and Austrian Studies )〕 He has been a member of the executive board of the Rabb Center for Holocaust Studies since its founding at BGU.〔(List of Rabb Center members )〕 He has served twice as Chair of the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and was the Director of the Overseas Student Programs and the Center for International Student Programs at BGU (1996–2004). He established and directed the (Internationale Sommeruniversität für Hebräisch, Jüdische Studien und Israelwissenschaften ) in Beer Sheva (1998–2004, 2009), which has hosted hundreds of German-speaking students from a dozen countries since its inception. In November 2008, he was appointed Dean of International Academic Affairs at Ben-Gurion University.〔See (list of deans and senior administrative staff at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ), p. 17.〕 In 2009 he was elected to the executive board of the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem.〔See (list of executive board members at the Leo Baeck Institute of Jerusalem ).〕 In 2001 Gelber was elected to life membership in the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (Darmstadt).〔(Announcement of Mark Gelber's life membership in the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung )〕 From 2007-2014 he served as the Israeli academic representative on the Fellowship Committee for the Minerva Foundation of the Max Planck Gesellschaft (München) with primary responsibility for the faculties of the humanities, social sciences and law.〔See (list of Minerva Fellowship Committee Members )〕 He regularly reviews research projects for the German-Israel Fund ((GIF )). He was appointed twice by Israeli Ministers of Education to be a judge for the Israel Prize in World Literature (2000) and in Hebrew and Jewish Literatures (1996). Gelber also sits on the International Scientific Board of the Österreichische Exilbibliothek (Vienna) and the executive board of the (Institute for Jewish Studies in Antwerp ). He is a member of the editorial board of the prestigious ''conditio judaica'' book series on German-Jewish Literature and Culture, first published at Niemeyer Verlag (Tübingen) and now published by Verlag Walter de Gruyter (Berlin) and is a member of the editorial board of the series "Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts," also published by de Gruyter. He is on the international editorial board of "transversal," published by the Center of Jewish Studies, University of Graz, as well as the international editorial board of “Chilufim,” published by the (Center for Jewish Cultural History ) at the University of Salzburg. He was elected to serve on the academic committee of the Internationale Stefan Zweig Gesellschaft (Salzburg) and to the Executive Board of the (Association for European Jewish Literature Studies (EJLS) ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark H. Gelber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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