Professor Yaron Peleg

Yaron Peleg has served as Kennedy Leigh Professor in Modern Hebrew Studies at University of Cambridge since 2012. He has also directed the Middlebury College Summer School of Hebrew at Middlebury College (2023–2024) and held the Liu Boming Visiting Professorship of Jewish Studies at Nanjing University (2019). Previously, he was Associate Professor of Hebrew at George Washington University (2002–2012), where he taught modern Hebrew language and literature, biblical literature, Israeli cinema, and modern Jewish history, and directed the university’s Hebrew Program. He has also taught Israeli cinema at Princeton University and earlier held a lectureship at Brandeis University, where he completed his PhD in Hebrew literature (1993–2000). He earned his B.S. in Film and Television Studies from Emerson College, grounding his later scholarly work in both literary and cinematic studies.