William Kolbrener

William Kolbrener, professor of English at Bar Ilan University, received both his BA and PhD from Columbia. He is currently executive director of Writing on the Wall, a platform for Jewish expression after October 7.

In Print / Op-Eds

What Happened To My Alma Mater?

By William Kolbrener

Back then there was no unanimity of perspective: the English Department boasted structuralists, deconstructionists, post-structuralists, and psychoanalytic and feminist cultural theorists. I took courses with all of them. But today, their toxic amalgam – ensuring the critical nuance of each is lost – is the only thing on the menu.