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Yair Solan, Ph.D.

Yair Solan, Ph.D.

Title:

Assistant Professor - Literature & Modern Languages

College/Division:

Halmos College of Arts and Sciences

Yair Solan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Film in the Department of Humanities and Politics in NSU's Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. His areas of specialization include 19th & 20th century American literature and culture, film studies, and the history of media and technology. His articles have appeared in Modernism/modernity, Journal of the Short Story in English, and Studies in American Naturalism. At NSU, Dr. Solan has taught courses in American and African American literature, the graphic memoir, and world literature, as well as courses in the department’s minor in film studies.

  • LITR 2021H American Literature II Honors

  • Attends honors events

  • 19th and 20th Century American Literature
  • Literary Naturalism and Modernism
  • U.S. Cultural Studies
  • Literature and Film
  • Film Studies and Film History
  • Visual and Popular Culture
  • History of Media and Technology

  • Ph.D., City University of New York
  • M.A., New York University
  • B.A., Rutgers University