Prose Poet

Israeli writer and translator Naomi Gal will be on campus this year as Comenius Professor of Language and Literature.

A graduate of the Sorbonne, she is the author of 13 books, including Lilith’s Divorce, Lovend, and Soap Opera, which won the Jerusalem Literary Prize. She also is an eminent translator; she speaks English, French, and Arabic, as well as Hebrew.

She will be teaching English 104: Experience of Literature in the fall and at least one section of Writing 100 in the spring.

Her husband, Joseph Ben-David, is an electrophysiologist who has joined Valley Cardiology Associates of Bethlehem.