Keren Mock

Keren Mock earned her Ph.D. at Paris Diderot University (Paris Cité University). She teaches at Sciences Po Paris and is an associate researcher at the Institute of Texts and Modern Manuscripts (CNRS/ENS), while also practicing as a clinical psychologist. She received a Visiting Junior Scholar Fellowship from the France–Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and recently obtained a fellowship grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in New York to support her current research on Franz Kafka’s manuscripts. 

Keren’s work is grounded in a transdisciplinary approach within the humanities, encompassing psychoanalysis, psychology, Jewish thought, comparative literature, and philosophy. Her most recent publications include Hebrew: From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2025; with forewords by Pierre-Marc de Biasi and Julia Kristeva) and Les Blagues de guerre de Franz Kafka et ses amis (ed., Albin Michel, 2024), which draws on an intriguing collection of “war jokes” compiled by Kafka and his friends during the First World War she discovered in the National Library of Israel.

As a Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies at Stanford, Mock will offer a course in Psychology and Comparative Literature called "Obedience and Otherness," looking to Jewish history as a test case for exploring group behavior, authority, collective memory, and identity. She will also share her research on Kafka with the Jewish Studies Fellows.