Lissa Anna

Lissa Anna serves as a Lecturer at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris, specializing in Hebrew language and literature within the Near and Middle East region. She is actively affiliated with the CERMOM research team and holds dual administrative roles as Co-director of the Yod Review of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Project Manager for Hebrew language education at France's General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research.

Her scholarly work centers on modern and contemporary Hebrew literary traditions with distinctive focus on zoopoetics, biblical literary analysis, and Hebrew cinema studies. She investigates intersections between literature, myth, and religious history while examining how animal symbolism functions in Jewish literary traditions. Her teaching portfolio includes Modern and Contemporary Hebrew Literature, Classical Literature (with literary analysis of the Bible), and History of Hebrew Cinema.

Administratively, she shapes national Hebrew language curriculum through her Inspectorate role while advancing academic discourse through the Yod Review. Her 2023 guest-edited special issue on human-animal difference in Jewish literature demonstrates her commitment to innovative interdisciplinary scholarship at the crossroads of literary studies, religious history, and animal studies.