Professor Moshe Ron (b. Tel Aviv, 1945), B.A. in Romance Languages and English Literature from Hebrew University (1968), Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University (1975, dissertation directed by Paul de Man). Resarched and wrote on various aspects of narrative theory, on portrait stories and the uncanny as well as on contemporary American and Hebrew fiction. Retired in 2007. Has worked concurrently and subsequently as literary editor and translator.