Kara Jesella

Kara Jesella is the author of Feminist Antisemitism: An Intellectual History (Routledge, 2026), a nominee for the 2026 LCSCA £1000 Book Prize, given to the author of the best book on antisemitism published in the last 12 months. She has lectured around the world on feminism, antisemitism, and antizionism at venues including Harvard University and the ISGAP Summer Institute, and her essays on these topics have been anthologized in Responses to 7 October:Universities (Routledge) and the forthcoming Necessary Dissent: Essays on Israel, Hamas, and October 7 (University of Nebraska Press). She is a fellow of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and an adjunct fellow of the Z3 Institute. 

Jesella has a PhD and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, where she was the Managing Editor of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, and a BA in Women’s Studies and English from Vassar College. A former journalist, she has written for the New York Times, Tablet, Quillette, and many other publications, and authored a book on Sassy magazine that was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She is based in New York City.