Dr. Uri Erman
Dr. Uri Erman is a lecturer in the Lobel Core Curriculum and an academic writing tutor at Shalem College. He holds a PhD in history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research deals with perceptions of stage performers – actors and opera singers – in eighteenth-century Britain, as a central site for the negotiation of individual and group identity in modernity. Erman has published articles in The Journal of British Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and other academic platforms. His book on Opera, Gender and National Identity in Britain, 1760-1830, is forthcoming in Oxford University Press.
Selected Publications
“Between Identity and Otherness: Jewish Opera Singers in Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Zmanim 125 (2025).
“Polly Peachum and the Aristocrats: Celebrity, Class, and Gender in the Early Eighteenth Century,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 57, no. 2 (2024): 215-232.
“The Singing Cat: British Audiences, Angelica Catalani, and the Threat of Opera,” in The Visual Life of Romantic Theatre, eds. Terry Robinson and Diane Piccitto (University of Michigan Press, 2023)
“The Operatic Voice of Leoni the Jew: Between the Synagogue and the Theater in Late Georgian Britain,” Journal of British Studies 56, no. 2 (2017): 295–321