Prof. Leona Toker

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Leona Toker, Professor Emerita of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, is the author of Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures (1989), Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative (1993), Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors (2000), Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (2010), Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading (2019), and articles on English, American, and Russian writers.

She has edited Commitment in Reflections: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy (1994) and co-edited Rereading Texts / Rethinking Critical Presuppositions: Essays in Honour of H. M. Daleski (1996), and Knowledge and Pain (2021). She is Editor of Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (Johns Hopkins University Press). In 2023 she guest-edited a forum on Anatoly Kuznetsov, author of Babi Yar, for East European Holocaust Studies.