{"id":20646,"date":"2026-10-01T10:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=20646"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:17:18","slug":"dr-gai-farchi","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-gai-farchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Gai Farchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 2024\u2013October 2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minerva Postdoctoral Scholar, Chair of Cultural Semiotics, University of Potsdam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>January\u2013October 2023<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture, New York University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>June\u2013September 2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mitacs Graduate Research Trainee, Department of English, McGill University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>November 2019\u2013April 2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chateaubriand Visiting Scholar, University of Paris 7 &#8211; Diderot, France.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>October 2017\u2013 September 2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD, School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comparative Literature<\/li>\n<li>Waste, Slop and Obsolescence<\/li>\n<li>Modern and Contemporary French Literature and Thought<\/li>\n<li>Jewish Memory Studies (Rubble, Debris)<\/li>\n<li>Environmental Humanities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications (Selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monograph<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fordhampress.com\/discarded-selves-hb-9781531515232.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Discarded Selves: Obsolescence in the Age of Presentism<\/em>, Fordham University Press,<\/a> 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Articles (Recent Selection)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euppublishing.com\/doi\/10.3366\/para.2026.0524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cEuropean Ruins, Jewish Rubble: Georges Didi-Huberman and Embedded Witnessing\u201d, <em>Paragraph<\/em> 49.2 (2026): 167\u2013184.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cLa mat\u00e9rialit\u00e9 de l\u2019indi\ufb00\u00e9rence. Christian Boltanski et les \u00ab amoncellements \u00bb de la Shoah\u201d, <em>M\u00e9moires en jeu<\/em> 23 (2026): 113\u2013117.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/1\/article\/907147\/pdf?casa_token=IwMTfllvIkAAAAAA:XPxyZ5Bel55Kg-u-QeRb_8bsRQr5V-8IDra1pSh0HReDH476KcIEy57yWe_29kDiICSyrk1khg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cImpersonal Belongings: Annie Ernaux\u2019s Poetics of Chiffonnage\u201d,\u00a0<em>SubStance<\/em>\u00a052.2 (2023): 21\u201337.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/doi\/10.1093\/fs\/knad107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLiterature between Collecting and Hoarding: Revisiting the Object in Fran\u00e7ois Bon, Lydia Flem, and Georges Perec\u201d,\u00a0<em>French Studies<\/em>\u00a077.3 (2023): 431\u2013446.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":20806,"template":"","person_category":[437,277],"class_list":["post-20646","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-fellows","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/20646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}