Galili Shahar was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Rosenzweig Center from January 2004 to September 2004 and from January 2005 to September 2005. His research project during the first year was titled "The Avant-Garde and the Jews: Theatre and the german-Jewish discourse on Modernity (Gustav Landauer, Martin Buber)". During the second year it was "Die unheilige Sprache: Versuch über die neue Literatur im Hebräischen".

Galili Shahar is currently a Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University.