Jacqueline Vayntrub
Jacqueline Vayntrub studies ancient Near Eastern literary culture and its reception in modernity. She is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and is working on her first book, The Limits of Biblical Poetry. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Maryland, College Park. She tweets about love, words, and dead languages with absolutely no regularity @eshetbaalathaov.
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