Yael Flusser teaches Hebrew language and literature at Columbia University. Her teaching draws on a background in comparative literature and research on Modern Hebrew in diasporic and translingual contexts. She has designed and led undergraduate seminars on Hebrew literature, 20th and 21st century US literature, academic writing, translingual fiction, cinema, and literature and the law.
Working across the US and Israel, her research focuses on cultural and literary responses to displacement and violence from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Her work examines how writers in Hebrew, English, and Spanish navigate histories of migration and diaspora, analyzing contemporary fiction and poetry as sites where liberal frameworks such as recognition, testimony, and voice are staged and contested in relation to ongoing crises in Israel/Palestine and the US. Her work contributes to conversations in translingualism in the 20th and 21st centuries, affect theory, and cultural criticism, examining how aesthetic practices and political possibility converge in specific historical contexts.