{"id":2448,"date":"2025-10-08T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2448"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:45:21","slug":"ofra-amihay","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/profile\/ofra-amihay\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofra Amihay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a lecturer in Jewish Studies at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and Cinema &amp; the Media Studies Program at Boston University. I have a PhD from New York University, and my research focuses on Hebrew and comparative literature and visual culture, with a special interest in text and image relations. My book <em>The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel<\/em> was published by Syracuse University Press in Spring 2022.<\/p>\n<p>I initiated and co-edited\u00a0<em>The Future of Text and Image<\/em>, a volume on textual-visual conjunctures in literature and art, and published articles on comics, photography, biblical motifs in modern narratives, and children\u2019s literature. In 2015 I curated the exhibition \u201cText and the City\u201d at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, based on my research there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14697,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2448\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}