Dr. Eva Mroczek

Biography

Eva Mroczek completed her education at the University of Toronto, with interludes in Krakow, Oslo, and Jerusalem. She earned her BA, MA, and PhD, focusing on Modern Jewish Thought and Ancient Judaism. Following graduate school, Mroczek taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University and then at the University of California, Davis, where she directed the Jewish Studies Program. In 2024, she returned to Canada to take the Simon Riva Spatz Chair in Jewish Studies at Dalhousie University. Her research intersects early Jewish literary cultures, encompassing areas such as the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and rabbinic literature, in conjunction with Book History. Mroczek's notable publications include 'Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity' (Oxford 2016), which was a finalist for the 2018 AJS Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize and a winner of the 2017 De Long Book History Prize awarded by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP). She also received the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Prize for Theological Promise. Currently, she is completing a manuscript titled 'Cave: Possibility of a New Scriptural Past,' which explores intellectual history through the lens of discovery stories in ancient and medieval Jewish lore.

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