Yael Shapira | Yael Shapira

Dr. Yael Shapira

Senior lecturer in English literature

I am a scholar of eighteenth century British literature, specializing in popular fiction and the Gothic. In recent years my work has focused on the forgotten popular novels of the Romantic period, and especially on the question of how popular authorship was understood, valued and experienced at the time. I teach a range of courses on fiction, Gothic, and gender.

Office: Bldg 404 room 108

Email: shapira.yael@biu.ac.il

Books

Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author: The Case of Isabella Kelly

Cambridge University Press, 2025

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Inventing the Gothic Corpse: The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Palgrave, 2018

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Canonical and Popular: Literary Dialogues

Co-edited with Omri Herzog and Tamar S. Hess. Resling, 2007

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Other Recent Publications

Graveyard Pleasures: Visiting (and Revisiting) the Burial Site in Late Eighteenth-Century Gothic Fiction

In Graveyard Gothic, ed. Eric Parisot, David McAllister, and Xavier Aldana Reyes. Manchester University Press , 2024

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Introduction: Biography and the Woman Writer Revisited.

(with Elizabeth Neiman.) Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 52 , 2023

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Somebody's Complaint: Isabella Kelly, Warren Hastings, and the Strange Case of Ruthinglenne

Eighteenth-Century Life 46.2 , 2022

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The Gothic Novel Beyond Radcliffe and Lewis

in The Cambridge History of the Gothic, ed. Dale Townshend, Angela Wright and Catherine Spooner. Cambridge University Press , 2020

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