Ilana Pardes is Katharine Cor­nell Pro­fes­sor of Com­par­a­tive Lit­er­a­ture and the direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Lit­er­ary Stud­ies at the Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty of Jerusalem. She is the author of Coun­ter­tra­di­tions in the Bible and The Song of Songs: A Biog­ra­phy.