Dr. Aviva Dautch is the executive director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK’s quarterly Jewish arts magazine and the leading English-language Jewish cultural publication in Europe. An academic in the field of Jewish literature, her PhD received Royal Holloway’s Reid Scholarship and a research award from Brandeis University. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and currently the inaugural Vera Fine Grodzinski scholar-in-residence for the University of Oxford’s Jewish Women’s Voices program at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing.

Aviva frequently lectures on modern Jewish culture at the London School of Jewish Studies, the JW3 Community Centre, and Limmud. She has worked as a curator, producer, and educator for many of the major London arts institutions, including the British Library, the British Museum, the Royal Academy, and Tate Modern. Aviva is also an award-winning poet and a regular arts broadcaster for BBC Radio 4.