Ilana Pardes

Hebrew University

Ilana Pardes received her Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. She taught at Princeton University in 1990-1992 and as visiting Professor at UC Berkeley in 1996 and in 2006. She is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University, where she has been teaching since 1992. Her work has focused on the nexus of Bible, literature, and culture as well as on questions of aesthetics and hermeneutics. She is the author of Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach (Harvard University Press, 1992), The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible (University of California Press, 2000), Melville's Bibles (University of California, 2008); and Co-editor of New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism (Niemeyer, 2006). Her current research focuses on the circulation of the Song of Songs in Israeli and American cultures.