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Yaron Peleg (Born 1959) is Kennedy-Leigh Professor of Modern Hebrew Studies at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. A native of Israel, Prof Peleg was educated in the United States, first as a film scholar and then as a modern literary scholar. Prof Peleg has taught at Brandeis University and Princeton University and was director of the Hebrew program at George Washington University for ten years, 2002-2012. In 2019, he was the Liu Boming Visiting Professor at Nanjing University. Yaron Peleg is also Director of the School of Hebrew at Middlebury College Vermont and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

Research

Yaron Peleg has written extensively on modern Hebrew literature, Israeli cinema and Israeli society and culture. His research focuses on the creation of a native Hebrew culture in Palestine/Eretz Israel at the beginning of the twentieth century and the legacy of that creation. He has written about Zionism and orientalism, about homoeroticism in modern Hebrew literature, about Hebrew literature and culture in the 1990s, the so-called postzionist age, and about various cultural constructs in Israeli cinema, among them gender formation, ethnic identities (Ashkenazi/Mizrahi) and religious identities.

Selected publications

•	Derech Gever, Homoeroticism in Modern Hebrew Literature (2003)

•	Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination (2005)

•	Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas (2008)

•	Identities in Motion, Israeli Cinema Reader (2011)

•	Brandeis Modern Hebrew (2015)

•	Directed by God, Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television (2016)