Hila Shachar

Hila Shachar is a Lecturer in English and Film at the University of Dundee, and a fellow with the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. She is also a professional writer, researcher, and editor, with over 18 years of copywriting, marketing, editing, research, content strategy, and consultancy experience within numerous industries and fields, including government and policy, entertainment and the arts, tourism and hospitality, philanthropy, charities, museums, NGOs, and media and journalism. As part of this work, she has interviewed victims of war crimes and Holocaust survivors and contributed to the writing and copyediting of human rights reports for charities, NGOs, and philanthropic organisations.

Her current research explores Israeli women filmmakers and contemporary Jewish memoir writing. She has published works on Jewish memoir and antisemitism, including forthcoming articles on the intersections between film analysis, Jewish identity, feminism, and contemporary antisemitism, to be published by NASHIM and Judith magazine. She is also co-editing the collection, Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing, which explores through fiction and non-fictional works the experiences of Jewish women and antisemitism in a post-October 7 world. This collection is being co-edited with Leah Benoz, a UK researcher at The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, as well as the founder of Scotland Against Antisemitism.