Maya Balakirsky Katz is a psychoanalyst and an associate professor of Jewish art at Bar-Ilan in 2019. She is a co-editor of Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. Her book The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010) explored the bottom-up creation and dissemination of the rebbe’s image and legacy. Her book Drawing the Iron Curtain (Rutgers, 2016) focused on the Jewish labor in the Soviet animation industry. Her volume on religion and psychoanalytic publication is forthcoming (Cambridge, 2022).