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Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris was ordained at Leo Baeck College in 1996. She has worked as Director of Student and Young Adult Work for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (now Movement for Reform Judaism) and assistant rabbi at Temple Beth Israel, Melbourne, Australia. From September she will be the Principal of the Leo Baeck College and she also lectures in Bible there. She worked as a part time congregational rabbi at Southgate and District Reform Synagogue. Rabbi Kahn-Harris is currently working on a PhD in feminist biblical criticism in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. She resides in London, where she is married with one son and one daughter. Rabbi Kahn-Harris’s current area of research is broadly in the field of feminist biblical criticism. Specifically she is looking at the possible interface between traditional rabbinic midrashic hermeneutics and contemporary feminist literary criticism. Her intention is to create works of biblical criticism that follow the structure and hermeneutics of classical midrashic commentary moulded with the concerns of contemporary Jewish feminists. Her scholarly interests include modern literary criticism and its relationship to Midrash, Jewish feminist Biblical interpretation, classical rabbinic hermeneutics, and, to lesser extent, queer theory, cultural studies and gender studies.