Ilanit Loewy Shacham

Ilanit Loewy Shacham is a professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has published extensively on medieval Hebrew literature and culture. Her research focuses on the intersection of literature, history, and religion in the medieval period. She is a leading expert on the Telugu poem Āmuktamālyada and its cultural significance.