Professor Sara R. Horowitz is the 2020-2021 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence. She is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities and former Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her books include Shadows in the City of Light: Paris in Post-War French Jewish Writing (2021); Hans Günther Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy (2016), which received the Canadian Jewish Literary Award; Encounter with Appelfeld (2003) and Voicing the Void:  Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction, which received the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book.  She served as the senior founding editor of the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Memoirs - Canada (Series 1 and 2) and as founding co-editor of the journal KEREM:  A Journal of Creative Explorations in Judaism. She served for many years on the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC and has just completed her term as Chair of the Academic Board of the Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University.