Professor Vered Shemtov is the Co-Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies and the Eva Chernov Lokey Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Language and Literature at Stanford University. She completed a book on Prosody and Ideology in Hebrew Literature which will be published by Bar Ilan University and she is currently working on a book about Geographical and Literary Spaces in Contemporary Hebrew Literature. Her publications include articles on Jewish and Israeli perspectives of space in Yehuda Amichai’s poetry, discontinuous spaces in A. B Yehoshua’s work and the Bible in contemporary Israeli literature. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.