Barbara Mann, PhD, has been named acting chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Case Western Reserve University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Mann, who joined CWRU in 2023, is the college’s inaugural Stephen H. Hoffman Professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature.
Her research explores questions of space, memory and identity, and her teaching introduces students to canonical works from 19th and 20th century modern Hebrew literature, as well as contemporary Israeli cultural expression.
