Eviatar Oren is a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. His interests include modern and contemporary fiction from Brazil and Spanish America, theory and history of the novel and of the short story, world literature, linguistic and literary pragmatics, and literary reception.
Eviatar holds a B.A. in Linguistics and in the AMIRIM Interdisciplinary Honors Program in the Humanities from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2017) and an M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the same university (2022).
In addition, Eviatar is a literary translator, and has translated works from Portuguese, Spanish, and English to Hebrew. He selected and translated a collection of short stories by Machado de Assis, soon to be published in Israel.
Before coming to Yale, Eviatar worked as a writer, editor and researcher in the Israeli political sphere and civil society, working with various social and liberal-democratic organizations, parties and leaders. Most notably, he worked on security and peace-related themes and was vice-editor and staff writer for Telem Magazine.