Yarden Segal graduated from Tel Aviv University with a B.A. in English Literature and Theatre Arts in 2017 and an M.A. in English Literature in 2025. Her master’s thesis examined how certain contemporary works of science fiction utilize simulation and multiverse theory to provoke and respond to radical existential nihilism, arguing how nonsense, play, and wonder are uniquely equipped to disarm nihilistic thinking, transforming the very forces that threaten meaning into catalysts for its regeneration. 

Alongside her academic work, Yarden is a performance artist working at the intersection of autobiographical performance, physical theatre, and text. Trained at the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem, she has performed with improvisational dance and theatre groups for over twelve years. Her solo works, including No Point in a Finger (2019), Death by Thesis (2023), and Libertà Ricreata (2025/26), draw on lived experience and explore how art and live performance can retell stories of confinement and set the path towards the reclamation of freedom and the recreation of meaning - themes closely tied to her research.

Yarden has spent over a decade teaching English as a foreign language to students of all ages, online and in person. As a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, Yarden looks forward to teaching Hebrew at Colgate University’s Jewish Studies Program, sharing her love of language, storytelling, and Israeli culture with students under the supervision of Professor Daniella Doron.