Na'ama Rokem studies modern Jewish literature and intellectual history, focusing especially on German-Jewish and Hebrew literature, and on the cultural history of the Zionist movement. She is interested in bilingualism, self-translation, and language ideology, and is a member of the Neubauer research project on language revival and reform movements across the Middle East in the early 20th century. Her first book is Prosaic Conditions: Heinrich Heine and the Spaces of Zionist Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2013), and Roken is currently completing a second book about a network of letters that cross between German and Hebrew and span the 20th century, with chapters on Franz Kafka, Yehuda Amichai, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan, among others. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.