I am Associare Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I also currently serve as the academic head of the Institute of Literatures. My research concentrates on the interrealtions of ethics, literature, and the emotions in the later Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, with a particualr emphasis on the writings of the Tre corone: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. I am the author of Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self (Cambridge 2010) and Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature (PIMS 2022) and the co-editor of several volumes, including Petrarchan Passions: Affects and Community Formation in the Renassiance World (Berlin 2022, co-edited with Bernard Huss and Timothy Kircher). I am also the editor and co-translator of the book Wandering to Other Times: Francesco Petrarca - Selected Writings, the first translation of Petrarch's Latin works into Hebrew. My current research project deals with the literary, philosophical, and political implications of compassion in the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from Dante to Tasso. My articles have appeared in journals such as Speculum, MLN, and I Tatti Studies, and I have contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch, The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio, and The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature. Besides my work on Italian Renaissance Literature, I am interested in the theory and practice of autobiography from antiquity to the present and contemporary theories of affects.