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Roman Katsman

Roman Katsman is an Israeli literary scholar and full professor at Bar-Ilan University who researches Hebrew and Russian literature.

born 1969Theory of literary mythopoesisStudy of gestures in literatureResearch on Agnon and DostoevskyJewish-Russian literature studies

Born: 26 November 1969, Zhytomyr
Occupation: literary scholar, literary theorist, university teacher, literary historian
Education: Bar-Ilan University

Roman Katsman was born in 1969 in Zhytomyr

Katsman was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, on November 26, 1969. After finishing high school in 1986, he studied mechanical engineering in Moscow and served in the Soviet army.

He immigrated to Israel in November 1990. In 1991 he began undergraduate studies in comparative literature at Bar-Ilan University, and he received his doctorate there in 1999 with honors. His dissertation dealt with mythopoesis in works by Dostoevsky and Agnon.

From 1996 to 1997 he taught literature at Midreshet Noam in Pardes Hanna. Since 2000 he has taught in the Department of Literature of the Jewish People at Bar-Ilan University, which he headed from 2014 to 2017. He became a full professor in 2016 and has headed the Jewish-Russian literature program since 2020.

His research covers mythopoesis, chaos theory in literature, gestures in literature, and sincerity and rhetoric in Agnon. His books include The Time of Cruel Miracles (2002), Poetics of Becoming (2005) and A Small Prophecy (2013). He is married to Tatyana and has 2 children.