Personal profile
Research interests
Global Modernism, with a focus on Anglophone, Brazilian and Hebrew Modernisms
History of Reading Praxes
History of Literary Theory
Psychoanalysis
Sound Studies
Translation Studies and World Literature
Attention Studies
Roles and Responsibilities
Translator:
Segalovitz translates between Hebrew, Portuguese and English. Most recently, she translated Clarice Lispector’s short story collection A via crucis do corpo from Portuguese into Hebrew, and Shimon Adaf’s poetry collection Aviva-No from Hebrew into English (Selected as Editor’s Pick by World Literature Today, and as a finalist for the Best Translation Book Award).
Podcast Host:
Segalovitz 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 Maggie Nelson. https://open.spotify.com/show/43xctmwr1PIFgqcJiMrijT?si=d3050b39596441ec
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Comparative Literature with a Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies , University of California at Berkeley
2012 → 2018
Award Date: 13 Dec 2018
Master, Department of Literature, Thesis: The Melancholic Language of Clarice Lispector , Tel Aviv University
2008 → 2012
Bachelor, Literature & Psychology , Tel Aviv University
2005 → 2008
Keywords
- PS American literature
- American modernisms
- Southern Gothic
- William Faulkner
- PC Romance languages
- Brazilian modernism
- Clarice Lispector
- Brazilian intellectual history
- PN0080 Criticism
- New Criticism
- Psychoanalysis
- Queer Theory
- Translation Studies
- PN0441 Literary History
- History of Reading Methods
- History of Psychoanalysis
- PJ Semitic
- Hebrew literature
- Hebrew Modernism
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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"Probably Not Book Learned at All": The Gender of Attentive Reading in Woolf and Lispector
Segalovitz, Y., 1 Mar 2026, In: Poetics Today. 47, 1, p. 29-50 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Close Reading and the Making of Subjects: [Books Review]
Segalovitz, Y., Dec 2025, In: MLN. p. 1259-1272 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review
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Psychoanaliterature, or, how the American relational move made Are You My Mother? and The Argonauts
Segalovitz, Y., 1 Jan 2025, In: Textual Practice. 39, 1, p. 53-80 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"נהיה אחים רק אם נכתוב": הציר האופקי במשפחה הישראלית בראי "אביבה-לא" של שמעון אדף ו"אחות שמש" של דרור בורשטיין: [מתוך המדור: מאמרים]
סגלוביץ, י. & סלובודין, א., Jun 2025, In: קריאות ישראליות. גיליון, p. 182-200Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Close Reading Beyond the Anglophone Orbit
Segalovitz, Y., Nov 2024, In: Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship. 32, 1-2, p. 343-350Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism
Segalovitz, Y., 1 Sep 2024, State University of New York Press. 320 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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The Music of the Prose Takes Place in Silence: Sound, Fury, and Faulkner's Negative Audition
Segalovitz, Y., 1 Sep 2023, In: MFS - Modern Fiction Studies. 69, 3, p. 417-443 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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When Enough is Enough: Relational Readings of Narrative Enoughing
Segalovitz, Y. & Brostoff, A., 2023, In: Dibur Literary Journal. 15, p. 79-95Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘My Error Is My Mirror’: Clarice Lispector’s Jewish Rhetoric of Mistakes
Segalovitz, Y., Sep 2022, After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century. Jacobs , A. X. & Williams, C. (eds.). Cambridge: Legenda Books, p. 139-156Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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“That Listening Mien”: Queer and Psychoanalytic Intersubjectivity in Sedgwick’s Autotheory
Segalovitz, Y., 1 Jun 2022, In: American Book Review. 43, 2, p. 47-52Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Psychoanaliterature: Psychoanalysis and Literature in the Turn-of-the-Millennium US
Segalovitz, Y. (PI)
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research