Teaching Staff

Tzipora Rakedzon serves as the Associate Head of the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She is also the academic head and a lecturer of Graduate Academic Writing in the department and the director of the English Program at the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology in China.

Tzipora received her PhD at the Technion in science communication at the Department of Education in Technology and Science, and her BA and MA in linguistics from Haifa University. Her research interests include teaching pedagogies and assessment of scientific and professional communication, especially writing and vocabulary. One of her projects, the De-jargonizer, has been published in PLOSone and featured in Nature and in over 40 news sites in 8 languages around the world.

Senior Teaching Fellow

Michal Tal is a senior teaching associate in the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion–Israeli Institute of Technology. She holds a PhD (2016) in Hermeneutics and Culture Studies from Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Dr. Tal studies two different disciplines: (1) English teaching in higher education and technology in the service of language learning; and (2) Interdisciplinary analysis of literary themes, particularly those related to questions of identity, subjectivity and individuality.

Her latest literary publications include “Language Adventures in the Japanese Corporation: A Lacanian Reading of Amélie Nothomb’s Fear and Trembling“ (2020) and “Double Agony: Is Literary Doubling a Cure for Suffering or Its Source?“ in The Psychoanalytic Review.(2019). Her recent publiation in the study of ELT is “Integrating international teleconferences into

EGAP courses: Preparing students for real-life professional situations“ (2021, with Scott-Monkouse and Yelnevskaya)

Orit Rabkin has a PhD in American Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Oklahoma. She studied literacy and composition alongside her PhD and began her career teaching composition writing and literature to undergrads. Currently, she coordinates and teaches undergraduate English as well as PhD science writing.

מייל אישי                                    shlomitb@technion.ac.il
מייל תפקידי לקורסי אנגלית ועברית ha.students@technion.ac.il
מייל תפקידי לקורסי חינוך גופני        ha.physicedu@technion.ac.il