Roy Holler is an Assistant Professor of Israel Studies. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington, and his BA in English from the City University of New York. His current book project, Passing and the Politics of Identity in Israeli and African American Literatures, explores the phenomenon of passing in a comparative context. Roy’s work on Israeli and African American literatures awarded him with the 2020 Baron New Voices in Jewish Studies Prize by Columbia University and Fordham University.
Born in Tel-Aviv, Roy began his career as a journalist at Yediot Ahronot and Galei-Tzahal. He teaches courses about Israeli literature, society and culture, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and about broader representations of races and ethnicities in the modern world.