Halevi-Wise, Yael

Born in Israel, Yael Halevi-Wise grew up in Mexico and studied in Israel and the United States. When she began her PhD in Comparative Literature at Princeton University, she met her mathematician husband. Together they moved to Montreal 10 years ago and began teaching at McGill University. Yael’s areas of focus include Twentieth-Century Latin American literature and Contemporary Israeli literature. She is the author of Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel (Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2003) and the forthcoming Sephardism: Spanish/Jewish History & the Modern Literary Imagination (Stanford University Press, 2012).