Dean of the Faculty of Humanities

In addition to advancing theoretical humanistic knowledge, faculty members specialize in applied fields including theatre, music therapy, writing, and translation. In recent years, the Faculty of Humanities has been at the forefront of the knowledge revolution, actively integrating artificial intelligence technologies within the university.

Prof. Galia Yanoshevsky is an expert in French literature and discourse studies, specializing in hybrid and cross-border genres such as interviews, manifestos, and scam letters. She leads the SIGAL LAB for Discourse Studies, focusing on multimodal and multimedia discourse in photobooks, menus, and infographics. She also heads a digital humanities research group, archiving and exploring national photobooks.

Her early publications centered on the Nouveau Roman movement in France and literary interviews. More recently, her work has examined themes such as shaping curated national narratives in photobooks, French as a heritage language, and the journalistic and literary contributions of the French immigrant community in Israel.

Prof. Yanoshevsky maintains numerous international research collaborations and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals. She has been a visiting professor and researcher at universities in France, Belgium, Italy, and Canada, and was a research fellow at Brandeis University in the United States.

She served three terms as Head of the Department of French Culture and was the Academic Head of the Student Administration Office during 2024/25. Outside academia, she holds public roles as a member of the Board of Directors of the Israeli Barrocade Orchestra and as an elected public representative on the Israel Press Council. In 2013, she was honored with the title of Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms by the French government.