Zohar Shavit incumbent of the Porter Chair of Semiotics and Culture Research, Vice dean for research, a full professor at the School for Cultural Studies and the Chairperson of the Program in Research of Child and Youth Culture at Tel Aviv University. She is an internationally renowned authority on the history of Israeli culture, child and youth culture, and Hebrew and Jewish cultures, especially in the context of their relations with various European cultures.

She is the author of ten books, among them:The Literary Life in Eretz-Israel, 1910-1933,The Construction of Hebrew Culture in Eretz Israel,A Past without Shadow, and German-Jewish Literature for Children and Adolescents