Faculty
Erith Jaffe-Berg
Assistant Professor
Literature/Performance
B.A., UC Berkeley
M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto
E-mail: erith.jaffe-berg@ucr.edu
Office: INTN 2016
Phone: 951-827-4418
Professor Jaffe-Berg has taught acting, directing, theatre history and play analysis at USC, Cal State Northridge, and various universities abroad. She has published articles on the topics of early-modern theatre, multilingual theatre, commedia dell'arte, and translation theory in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Translation Perspectives, The European Studies Journal, il cannocchiale and Quaderni d'Italinistica. Her translation into Hebrew of "Polygraph" by the French-Canadian playwrights Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard has been published in "Canadian Plays: An Anthology" (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2005). She has two articles forthcoming, the first on multilingualism and the plays of Tony Kushner in the journal Text & Presentation and the second an annotated translation of a 16th-century bilingual poem in Italian and Hebrew in the Italian journal Testualecritica. Professor Jaffe-Berg is currently working on a book on multilingualism in the commedia dell'arte. For her work, Prof. Jaffe-Berg has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant as well as a grant from the Canadian embassy. She is a member of the Son of Semele Theatre Ensemble (SOSE), an LA-based theatre company that has recently been featured in American Theatre as one of the nation's most promising emerging companies.