2024–2025 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute; Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Yael Segalovitz is the 2024-2025 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She received her PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley (2018), where she was a Townsend Center Fellow, and a Posen Fellow. Her research spans American, Hebrew, and Brazilian modernisms with a focus on transnational literary exchanges, complemented by her work translating literary works across these cultural contexts. Her forthcoming book, How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (SUNY, 2024) follows the global circulation of close reading beyond the anglophone orbit and this praxis’ impact on modernist literary production. Her current project follows the resurgence of psychoanalytic Object Relations theories within the American humanities, leading to the emergence of a new hybrid literary genre she terms “Psychoanaliterature.” Dr. Segalovitz co-hosts the podcast Psychoanaliterature with Prof. Anneleen Masschelein, featuring conversations with leading scholars at the intersection of psychoanalysis and literature, including Maggie Nelson, Judith Butler, and Jane Gallop.
Courses:
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Crossing Borders, or, How to Translate Hebrew Literature (COMLIT 100D 001 & JEWISH 120A 001)
Israeli Literature: Is There Such a Thing? (COMLIT 155)
