Avital Ronell taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984-1995 and at New York University from 1995 to the present. She is currently serving as the Acting Chair of Comparative Literature, and served as Chair of the Department of German from Spring 1997 to Spring 2005. She taught an annual seminar in Literature & Philosophy at NYU with Professor Jacques Derrida and has taught with Professor Helene Cixous at Université of Paris VIII.