Zohar Weiman-Kelman’s research explores intersections of Jewish history and queer theories of kinship and temporality. Zohar recently completed a first book manuscript, What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting: Queer Histories of Jewish Women Writers. Reading poetry in Yiddish, Hebrew and English from 1880 to 1990, the book examines how literary lineage is constructed and challenged by Jewish women. Between Jewish women’s limited access to the past and the precarious future of Yiddish, it offers a queer genealogy based in nonlinear transmissions, affective connections and cross-temporal encounters. Zohar’s new project, Philology, Sexology, and the Future of Yiddish, looks at intersections of Yiddish language and sexuality. Zohar held the Anne Tanenbaum Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Haifa.