Yael Segalovitz is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her work spans American, Hebrew, and Brazilian modernisms, and she also has translated between the three languages She is presently completing a book on the global circulation of close reading as a technique of the self geared towards the production of attentive subjects. Her next project relocates this disciplinary self-reflexivity in the new millennium, examining the reemergence of psychoanalysis as a literary critical and creative prism in North America. She has recently launched the podcast, Psychoanaliterature, where she and Prof. Anneleen Masschelein interview key figures working in the intersection of literary studies and psychoanalysis, among them Judith Butler, Jane Gallop, and Patricia Gherovici.
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Visiting Professor, Jewish Studies
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