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Professor Ronit Ricci FBA

Translation Studies, with a focus on the phenomenon of interlinear translation; Javanese and Malay manuscript literatures; Islamic literary cultures of the Indonesian-Malay World; exile in colonial Asia
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2026
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Summary

Ronit Ricci grew up and lives in Jerusalem. She holds BA and MA degrees in Indian studies and clinical child psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan.

She was at the Australian National University’s School of Culture, History and Language for several years and is currently the Sternberg-Tamir Chair in comparative cultures at the Hebrew University.

Her research has taken her to India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia. Over the past decade and a half she has been working to establish and develop the field of Indonesian Studies in Israel. She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Her work explores questions of literary transmission across religious traditions; theories and practices of translation, especially in Islamic pedagogical settings in Indonesia; and exilic and diasporic writing.

Current post

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sternberg-Tamir Chair in Comparative Cultures

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