Lyat Friedman is Chair of the Master's Program of Policy and Theory of the Arts, at Bezalel Academy of the Arts. Her book, In the Footsteps of Psychoanalysis was published in Hebrew and is now being translated. Her recent work, Transformative Criticism, will be pushed in the near future. Her research and publications focuse on contemporary continental philosophy, feminism, art theory, cultural studies and psychoanalysis.