Sara R. Horowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at York University and an esteemed scholar of the Holocaust. She has been a Professor in the Division of Humanities and Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University since 2002, and is a former director of the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. Prior to moving to Toronto, Professor Horowitz served as an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware, where she helped establish the Jewish Studies Program and served as its first director. Her academic training includes a Ph.D. in comparative literature (French, Hebrew, and English) and an M.A. in French literature from Brandeis University; an M.A. in English literature from Columbia University; and a B.A. in English literature, magna cum laude, from the City College of the City University of New York.

Sara Horowitz’s research focuses on Holocaust literature, women survivors, Jewish American fiction, and Israeli cinema. Currently, she is completing a book entitled Gender, Genocide and Jewish Memory, and co-editing a collection of essays on the image of Paris in post-war Jewish literary memory. She is the author of the award-winning Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (SUNY Press, 1997), which won a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award. She was chief editor for the Azrieli Holocaust Memoirs Series, Series I and II (Azrieli Foundation-Centre for Jewish Studies 2007, 2009), which won an Independent Publisher Book Award and Freedom Fighter Category Gold Medal.. She is the editor or co-editor of many prizewinning books, including Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust X: Back to the Sources: Reexamining Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders (Northwestern University Press, 2012); H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy (Northwestern University Press, 2016); and Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1994).

Professor Horowitz has been the recipient of many research fellowships, awards, and accolades, including the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She has served as president of the Association for Jewish Studies and on the Executive Committee for Jewish Literature of the Modern Language Association. She sits on the Academic Advisory Committee at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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