Marla Segol
PhD
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Interests
Kabbalah; Jewish magic; the history of the body in religion
My focus is on sexuality and the body in Jewish mysticism and magic, and in contemporary New Age Religion.
Education
- PhD, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2001
Books
- "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021.
- "Sexuality, Sociality and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts" – Co-edited with Jennifer Brown. Palgrave, New Middle Ages. January, 2013.
- "Words and Image in Medieval Kabbalah: the Texts, Commentaries and Diagrams of the ‘Sefer Yetsirah’" – Palgrave, New Middle Ages, 2012.
- "Religious Conversion, History, and Genre in Floire et Blancheflor, Aucassin et Nicolette, and Flamenca" – Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012.