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...
Executive Director, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Hannah Weisman is the executive director of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Prior to coming to UC Berkeley, she worked in cultural organizations throughout the northeast for more than twenty years, including the Boston Athenaeum and Shelburne Museum. As a museum educator turned director, Weisman takes a people-centered approach to her work, seeking ways to help people make connections and build community in museum spaces and with material culture. Weisman earned a master’s degree in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program (SUNY Oneonta) and a bachelor’s...
