I am the Katherine Cornell Chair in Comparative Literature and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I currently serve as Academic Head of the Institute of Literatures. My research focuses on the relations between literature, ethics, and emotions, particularly in the later Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. I am also interested in literary reception and in the dialogue between the history of emotions and affect studies.
My new book, Traces of Compassion: How Literature Shaped the Human in the West, is forthcoming in Hebrew with the Bialik Institute. I am also the author of Petrarch’s Humanism and the Care of the Self (Cambridge, 2010) and Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature (PIMS, 2022). My current work explores the reception of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in modern Hebrew literature.