BIOGRAPHY

Ido Telem is the Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at Rice University. His research and teaching focus on modern Hebrew and German literature and cultural history from the late eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on translation, aesthetics, and the intersection of literature and philosophy. He is preparing a book manuscript that traces the afterlife of Friedrich Schiller's concept of aesthetic education in the Hebrew Revival. The book argues that questions of beauty, form, and taste became a testing ground for Hebrew literary and cultural modernity.
 

Ido's work has appeared or is forthcoming in MLN, the Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies, and Chidushim: Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago in 2025 and is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Education:
- Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2025
- M.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018
- B.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2015