Liat Steir-Livny is an Associate Professor at Sapir Academic College and the Open University of Israel. She teaches in the Department of Culture at Sapir Academic College, the Cultural Studies MA program, and the Department of Literature, Language, and the Arts at the Open University of Israel. Her research focuses on Holocaust commemoration in Israel from the 1940s until the present. It combines Holocaust Studies, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies, Trauma Studies, and Film studies. She is the author of many articles and six books: Two Faces in the Mirror (Eshkolot-Magness, 2009, Hebrew) analyzes the representation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli cinema; Let the Memorial Hill Remember (Resling, 2014, Hebrew) discusses the changing memory of the Holocaust in contemporary Israeli culture; Is it O.K to Laugh about it? (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017) analyzes Holocaust humor, satire, and parody in Israeli culture; Three Years, Two Perspectives, One Trauma (The Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism, University of Haifa, 2019, Hebrew) analyses the media of prominent Jewish organizations in the United States and Eretz-Israel in the aftermath of WWII; Remaking Holocaust Memory (Syracuse University Press, 2019) analyses documentary Cinema by Third-Generation Survivors in Israel; Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries. It explores movies produced in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, and Israel.

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She is the recipient of the 2019 Young Scholar Award given jointly by the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) and the Israel Institute.