Dr. Yaeli Greenblatt

Yaeli Greenblatt is a researcher, teacher, and director, specializing in theories of textual materiality, visual culture, and Irish Modernism. Her research interests include the intersections of textuality and the body, performances of the nonhuman, and digital theater, as well as Israeli and American musical theater. She received her PhD in English from The Hebrew University (2021), where she was a Hoffman Fellow and recipient of the Gisela Gross Scholarship. 
    Her articles have appeared in journals and edited volumes. Her essays “Drawing Corkadoragha: Animal Vulnerability in An Béal Bocht” and “‘The Tattered Cloak of his Perished Skin’: Body as Costume” appeared in Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman: Animals, Environments, Machines (2024) and Gallows Humour (2020). She has also published “‘Our Eyes Demand Their Turn’: The Materiality of the Joycean Image and Illustrations of Finnegans Wake” in European Joyce Studies, as well as other essays and reviews in The Parish Review, James Joyce Quarterly, and James Joyce Supplement. Her essay on Vladimir Nabokov and the fragmented body was published in Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll (Bloomsbury, 2024). She is the co-editor of Nightreadings: Essays on Finnegans Wake II.2, forthcoming with Brill. 
    Greenblatt is an interdisciplinary performing artist, director, and founding Artistic Director of Starcatcher Theater, specializing in musicals and cabaret. She is a graduate of the Vertigo Hasadna Training Program and the Karon’s (Train Theater) “Kaleidoscope” - Visual Theater for Children laboratory. As a performing artist, her works have appeared in festivals across Israel including “Night Library,” “Between Heaven and Earth,” “Acco Festival street performances,” “The International Puppetry Festival” and “Medarom”.  
    Greenblatt teaches literature at The Hebrew University, and theater and acting at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where she is head of the newly founded musical theater track.