Ilana Maymind completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2011. Since 2015, Ilana has been a lecturer at Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Religious Studies, Chapman University, Orange, CA. She teaches such courses as Introduction to Judaism; Women and Religion; Religion and Love in World Literature; Religion and Medicine, and New Religious Movements. Her research focuses on East/West comparative religious thought with an emphasis on issues of transition, displacement, and exile (i.e., Learning from the Past: Exile and Ethics” in Perspectives on Culture, Values, and Justice, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015; “Exile as ‘Place’ for Empathy,” in Philosophies of Place, Hawai’i University Press, 2019. Her monograph titled Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides was published in 2020 by Rowman and Littlefield. Ilana is an associate editor of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, “Faith and Ethics” section, and a member of the Cambridge Scholars Religious Studies Advisory Board.
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