Dr.
Yaakov
Akiva
Mascetti
- Comparative Literature
Bar-Ilan University
English, French, Hebrew, Italian
- Research Keywords: Early-modern, English Literature, Renaissance rhetoric, Rhetoric, Sermons, Women Writers
Research Interests
I study early modern English literature, focusing on religious poetry and alchemical imagery. My ISF project on “Spirituall Senses” in English sermons (1560-1660) builds on work from the “Sensing the Truth” research group at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, examining how preachers conceived sermons as embodied utterances that physically affected listeners through sensorial language.
Selected Awards
2023-2026 Israel Science Fund Research Grant
2022 ESFRI Funding for RESILIENCE Infrastructure Project.
2021-2022 Research Group at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2013-2016 Israel Science Fund Research Grant
2008-2011 Israel Science Fund Research Grant
2008-2009 Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities- National Forum for Young Scholars in the Humanities
2022 ESFRI Funding for RESILIENCE Infrastructure Project.
2021-2022 Research Group at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2013-2016 Israel Science Fund Research Grant
2008-2011 Israel Science Fund Research Grant
2008-2009 Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities- National Forum for Young Scholars in the Humanities
