Fania is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Haifa. Her research interests are: the Enlightenment, a web of eighteenth-century European ideas and practices of sociability, politics, creativity and improvement; interplay of reason and sentiment in Enlightenment discourses; ways in which persons and ideas crossed linguistic and cultural borders, and how such crossings changed them; cultural, national and invidivual differences within Enlightenment settings.