Adia Mendelson-Maoz is a senior faculty member in literature and culture, head of the Hebrew Literature Section in the Department of Literature, Language, and Arts, and a faculty member in the MA programme in cultural studies at the Open University of Israel. Her research deals with Hebrew literature as it intersects ethics, politics, and culture. She has taught in, served as academic supervisor of, and developed a number of undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on Hebrew literature of the twentieth century and on multiculturalism in Israel. Mendelson-Maoz has published numerous articles in books and journals, among them Social Jewish Studies, the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Shofar, and Israel Studies Review. She is the author of Literature as a Moral Laboratory: Readings in Selected Twentieth-Century Hebrew Prose, published in Hebrew in 2009 by Bar-Ilan University Press.
