Gilad Sharvit is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Towson University. A scholar of modern Jewish thought, Sharvit's interests lie in Jewish philosophy, German-Jewish literature and culture, German and continental philosophy, psychoanalysis and critical theory.
Sharvit is the author of Therapeutics and Salvation: Freud and Schelling on Freedom (Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2021) and co-editor and contributing author of the volumes Freud and Monotheism: The Violent Origins of Religion with Karen Feldman (Fordham University Press, 2018) and Canonization and Alterity: Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature with Willi Goetschel (De Gruyter, 2020).
Sharvit's current research addresses the role of heresy in German Jewish modernity.
