Dr Erella Brown holds degrees from Tel Aviv University (theatre and comparative literature), Berkeley (English and Hebrew literatures) and Cornell University (comparative - French and English literature). Her Ph.D Dissertation at Cornell was on "Allegory and Irony in the Satirical Work of Hanoch Levin" (1989). From 1989 to 1995, Dr. Brown was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Hebrew at Penn State University. She has joined the departments of Theatre and Hebrew and Comparative literature at the University of Haifa in 1995.
Brown's fields of specialization include modern and postmodern Israeli, European, and American drama, Feminism in the theatre, and contemporary literary criticism and theory. Dr Brown's publications include articles on "The Ozick-Bloom Controversy," Politics of Desire: Brechtian "Epic theater in Hanoch Levin's Postmodern Satire," "Cruelty and Affirmation: Levin and Artaud," as well as articles on literature and psychanalysis, including "Agnon and Gradiva" and "Cixous's Portrait of Dora." Dr. Brown is currently working on a study of Hanoch Levin's theatre in comparative context.