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Ilana Pardes serves as the Katharine Cornell Professor of Comparative Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and directs the Center for Literary Studies. She has held significant academic positions including Assistant Professor at Princeton University (1990-1992), Visiting Professorships at UC Berkeley (1996, 2006) and Harvard University (2012), and prestigious fellowships at Hebrew University's Institute for Advanced Studies, Scholion Research Center, University of Pennsylvania's Center for Judaic Studies, and Princeton's Humanities Council.
Her research centers on the intersection of Bible, literature, and culture with emphasis on aesthetics and hermeneutics. Key areas include feminist biblical criticism, literary approaches to religious texts, modern Hebrew literature, and the cultural history of biblical interpretation. Her methodology uniquely bridges literary theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies to examine how ancient texts function within contemporary cultural frameworks.
Pardes' publications reveal a sustained exploration of biblical reception history, particularly focusing on migration narratives, erotic literature, and national identity formation. Her recent works demonstrate increasing engagement with interdisciplinary approaches connecting religious texts to modern ethical dilemmas and cultural phenomena.
- Fellow at Hebrew University's Institute for Advanced Studies (2005-2006)
- Fellow at Scholion Research Center (2008-2011)
- Fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Center for Judaic Studies (2009)
- Fellow at Princeton's Humanities Council (2017)
- Five consecutive Israel Science Foundation grants (2005-2026)
As Director of the Center for Literary Studies and Institute of Literature, Pardes leads major research initiatives in literary theory and biblical reception studies. Her current Israel Science Foundation grant (2022-2026) supports ongoing work at the Hebrew University, continuing her legacy of securing substantial research funding for interdisciplinary humanities projects.
