Sharon Aronson-Lehavi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at Bar Ilan University. Her book "Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance" is forthcoming at Palgrave-Macmillan. She holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she studied on a Fulbright grant, and she is the winner of the Dan David Award for post-doctoral studies at Tel Aviv University.