Isabelle Levy
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature,
Academic Program Director
Isabelle Levy (BA Columbia; PhD Harvard) is the Academic Program Director and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University. She has held positions as fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America and the Stanley A. and Barbara B. Rabin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, both at Columbia. She was previously a Fulbright fellow in Spain. She is the author of Jewish Literary Eros: Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2022) and has published articles in Medieval Encounters; La Corónica; A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, Volume II; and Digital Dante. Her research specializes in the relationships among Hebrew, Arabic, and Romance literary traditions of the medieval Mediterranean.
