Louis Schubert is a Professor of Political Science at City College of San Francisco, where he teaches a wide variety of courses ranging from Political Theory and Environmental Politics to American Government and Terrorism/Counterterrorism. He is lead author of The Irony of Democracy. His “Comics, Power and Society” course, a student favorite, turned his love of the comic book into an academic pursuit. Teaching the Jewish historical and ethical roots of comics at Cal has been a special joy. Being able to offer a course on the relationship between...
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...
Noa Tsaushu is a doctoral student of Yiddish Studies at Columbia University. She earned her master’s degree in Jewish Studies from Bar Ilan University, and her bachelor’s degree in fine art from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Guided by a comparative approach to cultural production, Noa specializes in modern Jewish art and Yiddish literature. Her dissertation, titled “Yiddish Art: The Desire for Cohesion among the Soviet-Yiddish Avant-Garde,” presents a theoretical framework for understanding the Yiddish avant-garde movement, a phenomenon in modern...
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...
