Micha Lazarus

Senior Lecturer, English Faculty, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2022-)

Frances A. Yates Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, London (2020-2021)

Title A (Research) Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (2015-2019)

College Lecturer, Christ Church, University of Oxford (2014)

Private Finance Initiative Team, HM Treasury (2005-2006)

Postgraduate Diploma in Bar Vocational Studies (Distinction), City Law School (2022)

Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), BPP (2020)

D.Phil., University of Oxford (2014)

M.A. in English (Distinction), University of California, Berkeley (2009)

B.A. Hons. in English Language & Literature (Double First Class), University of Oxford (2005)

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• Winner, Quadrant Chambers Virtual Speed Moot (2022)
• Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn (2021)
• City Scholarship for Academic Excellence (2021)
• Lord Bowen Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn (2019)
• BPP Career Commitment Scholarship (2019)

Major Postdoctoral Awards

• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (2024)
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2020)
• Gordon Duff Prize in book history (Oxford, 2012; Cambridge, 2020)
• Research fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Renaissance Society of America, Dumbarton Oaks, Harry Ransom Center, and Herzog August Bibliothek (2015-2020)

Micha has published two monographs, three edited collections, and more than 30 scholarly articles on the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Europe. He has given over 60 international lectures and conference papers, including invited addresses at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Chicago, Berkeley, New York, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Verona, and Munich. 

Micha is General Editor of the Sources in Early Poetics (Brill) book series, and a co-editor of Literary Criticism of the English Renaissance (multiple volumes, Oxford University Press). He is a peer reviewer for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, The British Academy, The Israel Science Foundation, The Warburg Institute, Bloomsbury, Routledge, Springer, and numerous journals.