Marla Segol is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah: The Texts, Commentaries, and Diagrams of the “Sefer Yetsirah” and coeditor of Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts.
Segol makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of kabbalah, Jewish studies, and the history of religion, opening up innovative perspectives for our understanding of sex magic and its reception. --Nicole Maria Bauer, Religious Studies Review