Dr. Idit Alphandary is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Literature and the Interdisciplinary Program of the Arts at Tel Aviv University. She is the editor of Between Crisis and Empowerment: Interdisciplinary Essays on Women and Gender (2017), and co-editor of Democracy, Dialogue, Memory: Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus (2019). Her research in World Culture focuses on forgiveness and resentment in cultures of mass atrocity refracted through studies of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, film and the arts.