Ofra YeglinAssociate Professor

Born in Jaffa, 1959, Ofra Yeglin is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Language and Culture at the Department of MESAS, Emory University. She specializes in the history and the poetics of Modern Hebrew poetry, that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century, became canonized by the time of the publication of C.N. Bialik`s second book (1908), and laid the foundations for the mature poetry written in the new major literary center in Ottoman and British Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Her first book, Perhaps with Different Eyes: Modern Classicism and Classical Modernism in Lea Goldberg`s Poetry (The Porter Institute, Tel Aviv University, 2002), reframes the literary landscape of the poet. Her third book, Love and Gold Poems: The Sonnets of Lea Goldberg (Sifriat Poalim-Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2008), is the first annotated collection of 117 published, unpublished and translated sonnets by Lea Goldberg. Her book, Restless Shards: The Sources of Abba Kovner`s Poetics (Sifriat Poalim-Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2015), is a study of the poetical conditions and origins that combined to mold the peculiar nature of Kovner`s poetry as an intersection of Jewish traditions and modernism.

Education/Degrees

• Ph.D., Hebrew Literature, Tel Aviv University
• M.A., Hebrew Literature, Tel Aviv University
• B.A., Hebrew Literature and General Studies, Tel Aviv University

Teaching/Research Areas

•  Modern Hebrew literature

Books Published

• Restless Shards: The Sources of Abba Kovner's Poetics, Bnei Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuchad –Sifriat Poalim Publishers, Ltd. With the support of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory College of Arts and Sciences and Laney Graduate School, 2015.
• Golden Love Poems: The Complete Sonnets of Lea Goldberg, Critical edition and Introduction, Unpublished Primary Sources, Edited by O.Yeglin. Ramat Gan: Sifriat Poalim Publishing House Ltd, 2008.  
• Perhaps With Different Eyes: Modern Classicism and Classical Modernism in Lea Goldberg`s Poetry. Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House and the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel-Aviv University, 2002.