I am a literature scholar and comparatist working on the interaction between fictional stories and real-world harm and repair. I specialize in contemporary Hebrew and Global Anglophone fiction, affect theory, and postcolonial studies. Currently at the Sophie Davis Forum, I am working on the representation of female soldiers in Israeli and U.S.-American cultures in the twenty-first century. I track a significant shift in military representation: from heroic male soldiers to disaffected female ones, across contemporary media from 2010 to the present. Drawing on affect theory, security studies, and cultural criticism, the research examines how female soldiers in literature, film, and visual culture serve as metonyms for changing civic experiences of power, complicity, and state-sanctioned violence.

I received my PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell (2022), and was an ISF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bar Ilan English Department (2023-2025).  I have published essays on gender and the ethics of complicity in contemporary fiction from South Africa and Israel/Palestine.