Yael Segalovitz

Yael Segalovitz is Visiting Professor in Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, a Jewish Studies Teaching Fellow at Stanford University, and Assistant Professor of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research explores the intersections of reading practices, global modernism, translation, and psychoanalytic theories of intersubjectivity. She is the author of How Close Reading Made Us (SUNY, 2024), which traces the transnational circulation of close reading across the United States, Brazil, and Israel. She is also a translator between Hebrew, Portuguese, and English and the host of the podcast Psychoanaliterature, featuring conversations with leading figures in literary studies and psychoanalysis. Her current projects examine the role of object relations theory in contemporary autotheory and the representation and theorization of sleep in modern Hebrew literature. As a teaching fellow, Yael will teach the course "Close Reading the Unreadable: Lispector, Faulkner, and the Global New Criticism" for the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures.