Sara R. Horowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities and former Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. Her authored and edited books include Shadows in the City of Light: Paris in Post-War French Jewish Writing; Hans Günther Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy, and Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction.  She served as president of the Association for Jewish Studies, member of the Academic Committee of the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, and founding co-editor of the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Memoirs and of the journal KEREM.