Giddon Ticotsky is a sscholar of Modern Hebrew Literature. He studied Hebrew and French literature at Tel Aviv University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has taught and held research fellowships at Stanford University in California and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

His main fields of interest and research include: Hebrew modernism—both in its own right and in its interrelations with European culture; The formation of the Hebrew literary canon and the reception of individual authors; The historiography of Hebrew literature; Twentieth-century Hebrew poetry; The digital humanities; And archival research.

He has published five books to date, alongside numerous articles, and has edited many additional volumes. His awards include the Bahat Prize for the Scholarly Book (2014, for ‘Dalia Ravikovitch – In Life and in Literature’); The Ministry of Culture Prize for Literary Editing (2015, for editing the collected works of Lea Goldberg); The Israeli Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Writers in memory of Levi Eshkol (2019, for his achievements as an editor); And the Paul Abraham Elsberg Prize for Distinguished Scholar, awarded by the Association of Israeli Archivists (2022, for his book ‘The Stitches of Hebrewness: Challenging Canon in the Central Archive of Hebrew Literature’).