I received my Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2006 and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University, USA. I have been a lecturer at Bar-Ilan since 2010.

Research:

• Eighteenth-century British literature,
• History and culture; feminism and gender;
• Women’s writing; Gothic and horror writing;
• History of the novel; the Minerva Press;
• Popular culture and its relation to the canon.

My research focuses on the development of the British novel in the eighteenth century, and I have recently published a book on the dead body in eighteenth-century fiction. My research interests also include gender, feminism and the interplay between canonical and popular culture. My new research project focuses on a neglected corpus of popular Gothic literature published in Britain in the 1790s.