Shachar Livne is a PhD Candidate in the General and Comparative Literature Department and a Doctoral Fellow at the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. 

Her PhD dissertation is titled “Vision and Revision: (re)writing dreams in 14th century poetry from Dante to Chaucer,” and it is being written under the supervision of Dr. Gur Zak. She was the recipient of the Individual Research Scholarship of the Center for the Study of Italian Culture at the Hebrew University in 2015-6, and she has spent a year of research at Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) during her MA studies, and a semester as a visiting PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).