Na’ama Rokem teaches in the Departments of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature, and is affiliate faculty in Germanic Studies and the Divinity School. She is currently chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, and has served as the faculty director of the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. A scholar of German Jewish and Hebrew literature, she has written about the cultural history of the Zionist movement, about bilingualism and self-translation in Jewish culture, and about poetry and poetics. Her book, Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive, is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press. Since 2022, she has been involved in the Oak Woods Project, serving as PI on several grants associated with the project.