Carola Hilfrich is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program for Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a founding member of the I-CORE Da'at Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World. She has published on Jewish literatures in the contexts of modernity and contemporaneity, including a book on the emergence of Jewish German modernity, Lebendige Schrift (Living Script (2000), the co-edited volume Passages of Belonging: Interpreting Jewish Literatures, and articles on questions of genre and spatiality in the writings of Hélène Cixous. She has edited the Hebrew translation (2006), by Hila Karas, of Cixous and Catherine Clément’s La jeune née (2006).