Dr. Yoav Ronel

Dr. Yoav Ronel has received his PhD degree from the Department of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion university in 2019 and is a lecturer at the department of Visual and Material Culture at Bezalel, where he teaches courses dealing with poetic and theoretical representations of love and desire. His dissertation dealt with matters of melancholy and nationality in the work of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky. 

His current research is concerned with a critique of work in the neoliberal age, and with philosophical, poetic and social representations of idleness.  

Among his latest publications ate an article about Berdichevsky’s melancholy in Mikan Hebrew and Israeli Literature journal, and an article about love in the thought of Giorgio Agamben and Roland Barthes, published in Theory Now journal.