Charlotte Fonrobert,
Co-Director

Prof. Fonrobert specializes in classical Judaism, particularly talmudic Judaism. Much of her work has dealt with the ways gender operates in this literature, with the relationship between Judaism and Christianity and with the connection between religion and space or territory. She has published a number of articles in academic journals, anthologies and encyclopedias. Her first book, Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (2000) received the Salo Wittmayr Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies, awarded by the American Academy of Jewish Research, and was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship. She co-edited the Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (2007) and is currently working on a manuscript entitled Replacing the Nation: Judaism, Diaspora and Neighborhood.
She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

Vered Shemtov,
Co-Director

Vered Shemtov’s research focuses on Hebrew Language and Literature. She is currently working on a book entitled Verse and Place: Poetic Form Between Home and Exile in Modern Hebrew Literature. Her recent publications include articles on Jewish and Israeli Perspectives of Space in Yehuda Amichai’s poetry, Web-Based Assignments for Promoting Proficiency in LCTL, Discontinuous Spaces in A. B Yehoshua’s work, and the Bible in Contemporary Israeli Literature. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.