Yosefa

Raz

Yosefa Raz is an associate professor at the University of Haifa. Her scholarship operates at the intersection of literary analysis, intellectual history, and biblical studies. Her work on biblical reception, poetics, and political theology has appeared in such journals as Modern Language Quarterly, Prooftexts, Political Theology, and The Bible and Critical Theory. Raz was an Anne Tanenbaum Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Center for Jewish Studies from 2013 to 2015 and a Mandel Scholion postdoctoral fellow at The Hebrew University between 2015 and 2017. Her poems and translation work have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, World Literature Today, and Guernica.   

Raz obtained her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union.