Zohar Weiman-Kelman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign literatures and Linguistics and holds the Blechner Career Development Chair in East European Jewish Culture at  Ben-Gurion University. Zohar received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Jewish Studies and the Gender and Women’s Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Zohar was a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and an associate scholar at the Humanities Forum on Sex, both at the University of Pennsylvania. Zohar’s first book Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry was published by SUNY press in 2018.

Co-sponsors: Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Theorizing Colloquium Series of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Poetry and Poetics Reading Group (English department).

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