Ori Kritz

Ori Kritz (Hebrew: אורי קריץ) is an Associate Professor and head of the Hebrew Language and Literature program at the University of Oklahoma, a part of the Judaic Studies department.

in Hebrew literature in 1986, with Professor Uzi Shavit as her thesis advisor.

Her thesis is entitled Up Against Gloomy Skies: On Mordechai Tembkin's Poetry.

At Tel Aviv University, she specialized in both modern and medieval Hebrew literature.

Her dissertation, entitled The Poetics of Anarchy: David Edelshtat's Revolutionary Poetry, covers thematic, prosodic, rhetorical and ideological aspects of American Yiddish ideological poetry.