Rachel S. Har­ris is asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of Israeli lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois, Urbana-Cham­paign. She is also the author of An Ide­o­log­i­cal Death: Sui­cide in Israeli Lit­er­a­ture and co-edi­tor of Nar­ra­tives of Dis­sent: War in Con­tem­po­rary Israeli Arts and Cul­ture (Wayne State Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2012).