A M E L I A G L A S E R Department of Literature, University of CA, San Diego 858.534.3809 9500 Gilman Drive #0410, La Jolla, CA 92093-0410 [email protected]
EDUCATION Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2004 – Stanford University Dissertation: The Marketplace and the Church: Jews, Slavs and the Literature of Exchange, 1829-1929. Adviser: Prof. Monika Greenleaf M.Stud. in Yiddish Studies, 2000 – University of Oxford Masters Thesis: Proletpen and its Poets: America’s Yiddish Literary Left. Supervisor: Prof. Dov-Ber Kerler BA in Comparative Literature, 1997 – Oberlin College, with High Honors; Minor in Russian. Thesis: Mother’s Duty, Father’s Gift: How Patriarchal Oppression is internalized in Natalia Ginzburg’s Lessico famigliare and Lidiia Chukovskaia’s Pamiati detstva. Adviser: Prof. Tim Scholl CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor of Russian Literature, University of CA, San Diego, Department of Literature 2009-2011: Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for East European Studies, Harvard University (Tenure effective July 1, 2012)
PAST POSITION Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University, Center for Russian and East European Studies and Jewish Studies Program
AWARDS AND GRANTS Academic Senate Travel Grant, UCSD, for travel to Washington, D.C., 2011 Academic Senate Travel Grant, UCSD, for travel to Vancouver, Canada, 2011 Mellon Subvention Grant, Northwestern University Press, 2010 General Campus Academic Research Grant (for Translation and Poetry Laboratory), UCSD, 2010 Hellman Fellowship, UCSD, 2009-10 Academic Senate Travel Grant, UCSD, for travel to London, UK, 2010 Dean’s Innovation Fund, UCSD, 2009-2010 Hellman Fellowship, UCSD, 2007-8 CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles, for Proletpen, 2006. Academic Senate Travel Grant, UCSD, for travel to Oxford, UK, 2007 MLA Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies (for Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets), 2006 Bradley Rubidge Memorial Dissertation Award in Comparative Literature, Stanford, 2006 Lewis and Clark Field Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, for work in Russia and Eastern Europe, 2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (CAJS), Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2005 HURI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), Harvard Univ., 2004 Geballe Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, 2003-4 Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, US Dept. of Education, for research in Ukraine and Russia, 2002-3 Research Opportunities Grant, Wadham College, Oxford, for research in Lithuania and Belarus, 2000 Research Grant, Oxford Div. of Modern and Medieval Lang. and Lit., for research at New York Public Library, 1999 Summer Research Grant, Stanford Center for Russian and E. European Studies, for Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia, 1999 Leigh Fried Award, Oberlin College, for best research writing in an area of Women’s Studies, 1997
PUBLICATIONS Books Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop. Northwestern University Press, 2012 (SRLT series, recipient of Mellon Subvention Grant) Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets. AG and David Weintraub, Ed., Trans. from the Yiddish and annotated by AG. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2005. Paperback edition, 2011. Book Projects in Progress Moyshe Nadir: A Literary Biography, in progress Stories of Khmelnytskyi, edited anthology, in progress The Anxieties of Translation: Russian Translation Theory from 1800 to the Present, co-edited and translated volume with Luba Golburt, in progress Research Articles “Between Nation and Class: Natalia Kobrynska’s Jewish Characters,” Polin Volume 26, ed. Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern and Antony Polansky, November 2012 (forthcoming) “Between the Marketplace and Enlightenment: Gogol and Rabinovich’s Ukrainian Memory Space,” provisionally accepted by Slavs and Jews (provisionally accepted) “The Yiddish Theme in English Fiction,” Routledge Companion to Contemporary Jewish Cultures, ed. Laurence Roth and Nadia Valman (under review) “An Earnest Proposal for Dmitri Nabokov” and “The Creation, and Erasure, of Laura” (edited reprints from Open Letters Monthly) in Shades of Laura. A Critical Companion to Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel The Original of Laura, ed. Yuri Leving (accepted by editor, still seeking book publisher) “My Scattered Souls: The Multiplicity of Being in Amelia Rosselli’s English Poetry” Universals & Contrasts, Issue 1, 2012 “Introduction: Russian-American Fiction Special Issue” in Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ) Vol. 55, Issue 1 (2011) “A Shout from Somewhere: The Early Work of Peretz Markish” in A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952), ed. Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, Jordan Finkin, and David Shneer, Legenda Studies in Yiddish, 2011 “Russian-Jewish Assimilation and the Poetics of Apostasy” in Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries, ed. Sheila Jelen, Michael P. Kramer and L. Scott Lerner, U. Penn Press, 2011 “From Polylingual to Postvernacular: Imagining Yiddish in the Twenty-first Century,” Jewish Social Studies (December 2008) “Sunday Morning in Balta: Reading the May Laws as a Redemption Narrative,” East European Jewish Studies, December 2007. (A shorter version of this article appeared in the Yiddish Forverts, August 2007) “The End of the Bazaar: Revolutionary Eschatology in the Works of Isaac Babel’ and Peretz Markish,” in Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, Jerusalem, Israel, 2005 “Isaac Babel” in Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (CAJS) Library web exhibit, Modern Jewish Literatures: Language, Identity, Writing, 2005 “Rashel Mironovna Khin i begstvo ot ‘Torgovki’” (in Russian translation) in Gendernye Issledovanie, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2003 Translations Two poems by Peretz Markish (from the Yiddish) in Open Letters Monthly (January 2009). “Judaic Chaos” by Osip Mandelstam (from the Russian with Alexander Zeyliger) and poems by Semyon Lipkin (from Russian) in An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of a Dual Identity. Maxim D. Shrayer, ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007 “Family Sayings, Part II” by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. from the Italian and introduced by AG), in Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Culture (December 2005) “On Exposers” by Kazimir Malevich (from the Russian with Anna Muza) in Kazimir Malevich: The White Rectangle. Writings on Film. Oksana Bulgakova, ed., Berlin: Potemkin Press, 2002 Vilna Ghetto Posters: Jewish Spiritual Resistance (from the Yiddish with Evgeniia Biber), Vilnius: Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, Lithuania, 2000 Journals edited Russian-American Fiction Special Issue, Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ) (guest co-editor) V. 55, Issue 1, 2011 Mantis: A Journal in Poetry, Translation, and Translation Theory 2 (Poetry and Translation). Co-editor with Sarah Hackenberg, Martha Fraser and David Goldstein. Stanford, 2001 Additional editorial work Galina Ustvolskaya: Variations on the Theme by Simon Bokman (language editor for translator Irina Berendt). (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 2007) Reviews in academic journals Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, The Anti-Imperial Choice in American Historical Review, 2011 Myroslav Shkandrij, Jews in Ukrainian Literature in Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2011 “A Little World in Transition: Jewish Culture and the Russian Revolution” (Extended Review Essay) in Shofar, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2010 Matthew Hoffman, From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of the Modern Yiddish Canon in Modernism and Modernity, 2009
Glaser 2 Jeremy Dauber, Antonio’s Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in Hebrew and Modernity, 2007 Jan Schwarz, Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers in Biography, 2006 Jeffrey Shandler, Adventures in Yiddishland in Sh’ma, 2006 Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia, in Slavic and East European Journal, 2005 Articles and reviews for a general readership “Sorokin’s Tyrannical Chosen” in Open Letters Monthly (July, 2011) “Stopping in Ladispoli: David Bezmozgis’ Tale of Departure” in Jewish Quarterly (Summer, 2011) “Art Beneath the Floorboards (On Woodruff’s theater adaptation of Notes From the Underground) in Open Letters Monthly (November, 2010) “Richard Fein’s Portrait of the Artist as a Translator” in Jewish Quarterly (Fall, 2010) “Gary Shteyngart, Old Man” (On Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story) in Open Letters Monthly (September, 2010) “When the Whole Story Isn’t Enough” (On Stein’s theater adaptation of The Demons) in Open Letters Monthly (August, 2010) “NiSh’ma” (commentary with Edward Serotta, Alina Polonskaya and Rabbi Gesa S. Ederberg) in Sh’ma (May, 2010) “Web 6.Under” (fiction) in The First Line Volume 12, Issue 1 (Spring, 2010) “Biography of a Protagonist” (On Steven Zipperstein’s Rosenfeld’s Lives) in Jewish Quarterly (December 2009) “The Creation, and Erasure, of Laura” (On Nabokov’s The Original of Laura) in Open Letters Monthly (January, 2010) Letter included in “Google’s Book Project: the Agony and the Ecstasy,” Chronicle of Higher Education (October 2009) “Sholem Aleichem, Gogol Show Two Views of Shtetl Jews” in Jewish Journal (March 2009) “Messages in a Bottle: American Jewish Literature Converses with the Russian Canon,” Jewish Quarterly (October 2008) “Something Better than a Moral” (On Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen) in Open Letters Monthly, (June 2008). “An Honest Proposal for Dmitri Nabokov” (On Vladimir Nabokov’s Laura.) Open Letters Monthly (May 2008) “The Secular Yiddish Schools of America Archival Collection at Stanford” in SYSA Report. NY, 2002 “Der Vilner Yidish Zumer-Program” (in Yiddish) in Yidishe Kultur, 2000
LECTURES, CONFERENCES Invited lectures “Jews and Ukrainians,” DG Wills Bookstore, La Jolla, 2012 New Faculty Publication discussions, UCSD, November, 2011 “Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands,” University of St. Petersburg, Russia, 2011 “American Leftist Yiddish Poets from the 1930s,” Congregation Dor Hadash, San Diego, CA, 2011 “Sholem Aleichem, Reader of Russian Literature,” Davis Center Seminar Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2010 “The Power of Translation,” Banot Program, Beth El Synagogue, CA, 2010 “The Weird World of Nikolai Gogol,” Oceanside Public Library, CA, 2010 “Uncovering the Underground” post-performance panel, “Notes from the Underground,” La Jolla Playhouse, 2010 “The American Yiddish Poets and Social Justice,” Ocean Hills Yiddish Club, Carlesbad, CA, 2010 “Sunday Morning in Balta: The May Laws and the Pogroms of the 1880s,” Goldin lecture, Pomona College, CA, 2009 “Nikolai Gogol and Sholem Aleichem: The Strange Marriage of Russian Literature and Yiddish Literature,” “Proletpen: America’s Rebel-Yiddish Poets,” and “Sunday Morning in Balta: The May Laws and the Pogroms of the 1880s,” Limmud Los Angeles, 2009 “The Proletarian Yiddish Poets of New York in the 1930s,” San Diego Rabbinical Association, San Diego, 2008 “The Cultural History of Jewish Vilna,” Congregation Beth El, La Jolla, CA, 2007 “Trading Tales: The Literature of the Pale of Settlement,” UCLA, 2007 “America’s Rebel-Yiddish Poets” Warner Memorial Lecture Series, Coronado, CA, 2006 “What’s Become of the Old Country?” KlezCalifornia, Palo Alto, CA, 2006 “The Merchant at the Threshold: Osip Mandelstam and Rashel Khin,” Vanderbilt U. Judaic Studies, 2006 “Sholem Aleichem Reads Gogol,” Reed College Russian Dept., NYU Comparative Lit. Dept., Johns Hopkins U. German Dept., and U. of FL, Gainesville, Slavic and German Dept., 2006 “Yiddish Writers at Gogol’s Fair,” Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 2005
Glaser 3 “Rebel Poets Now and Then, Contemporary Polish and Modern Yiddish Poetry” a bilingual reading with AG and Elzbieta Czyzewska, sponsored by Words Without Borders, Bowery Club, New York, 2005 “My Scattered Souls: Amelia Rosselli and the Multiplicity of Being” and “Translating Ginzburg Translating the Self,” John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, 2005 “The Marketplace and the Church: Gogol, Sholem Aleichem, Markish,” U. of Pennsylvania Slavic Dept., 2005 “On the Cross of Culture: Osip Mandelstam, Amelia Rosselli, and the Poetics of Multiplicity,” Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and University of CA, San Diego, Literature Dept. 2005 “Market Days,” Davis Center, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, 2004 “Trading Tales: Jewish-Slavic Exchange in the Literatures of Ukraine,” Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2004 “The Commercial Landscape: Gogol, Shevchenko, Markish,” Columbia University Slavic Dept., 2004 “’Arkhitekturnyi Narativ’ v Ukrainskoi Literature” (In Russian), Comp. Lit. Dept., Shevchenko Univ., Kyiv, Ukraine, 2003 “Yiddish in New York: America’s Other Literature,” English and American Lit. Dept., University of Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2003 “Murder in the Marketplace: Peretz Markish and Y. L. Peretz,” Jewish Studies Prog., Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, 2002 “A Proletarian Affair: New York’s Forgotten Yiddish Poets,” Jewish Studies and English Depts., Denver Univ., CO, 2001 “Fathers and Daughters from Lear to Tevye,” Palo Alto Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto, CA, 2001 “The African American in Yiddish Verse,” Seminar in Stateless Cultures, Univ. of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2000, “Di Proletpen-Poetn in Nyu York,” (In Yiddish) Centre for Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Oxford, UK, 2000 “Music in the Vilna Ghetto,” Guest lecture before “Imagining the Holocaust” (Prof. John Felstiner), Stanford Univ., 1999 Invited Talks at Conferences and Symposia “The Heirs of Tulczyn,” “Stories of Khmelnytskyi” Symposium, UCSD, 2012 “Journeys Back,” “Finding a Place in the Soviet Empire: Cultural Production and the Friendship of Nations”, U. IL Urbana- Champagne, 2011 “Sholem Aleichem: Russian Literary Critic” UCLA Russian Jewish Studies Conference, 2011 Petro Jackyk Memorial Symposium: On the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Mykola Hohol/Nikolai Gogol, Harvard U., 2009 “Jewish Luck: An Introduction,” CREEES/ICA International Film Festival, Stanford, CA, 2008 “A Blacksmith in Manhattan: The Rise of an American Yiddish Proletarian Poetics,” 7th Mendel Friedman Conference in Yiddish, Oxford, UK, 2007 “Remembering the Old Country in the Old Country,” International Association of Yiddish Clubs Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, 2008 and Keddem Congregation, Palo Alto, CA, 2007 “Isaak Babel, Perets Markish, i smert’ bazara” (In Russian), Nevzlin Center, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel, 2005 Discussant: “Dostoevsky Dismembered: Decentering a Great Writer,” Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2005 “Revolutionary Eschatology in the Stories of Isaac Babel,” Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies, U. of Pennsylvania, 2005 “Poety Proletpena,” (In Russian) SEFER Conference in Jewish Studies, Moscow, Russia, 2001 “Marketspeak: Peretz Markish’s Di Kupe,” Conference on Stateless Cultures, Univ. of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2002
Contributed Conferences and Panels “Gogol and the Vertep Tradition,” ATSEEL Convention, Seattle, 2012 “Translating the Outsider: From Pogroms to Lynchings in Yiddish Poetry,” ACLA Convention, Vancouver, Canada, 2011 Chair, “The City in Yiddish Literature,” MLA National Convention, Los Angeles, 2010 Panelist on two round tables: “Imagining Cossacks” and “Cultural Mobility in the Russian Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Contexts,” ASEES National Convention, Los Angeles, 2010 “Bohdan Khmelnitsky: Hero and Villain,” The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Conference: “Nation and Charisma,” London, UK, 2010 Discussant on two panels: “Immigrant Fiction(s): The Emerging Phenomenon of Russian-American Literature” and “Zionism in the Russian Contexts: Cultural and Literary Dialogues, 1897-1939,” AAASS National Convention, Boston, 2009 “Natalia Kobrynska’s Landscape of Change,” panelist, “Crossing Boundaries in Galicia: Cases of Polish, Ukrainian, German, Yiddish and Hebrew Literatures”; discussant, “Jewish Tradition in Russian Nineteenth-Century Literature: The Poetics of Mythmaking,” AAASS National Convention, Philadelphia, 2008 “Old Laughter, New Tears: The Jewish Gogol” panelist “Slavic Literatures as a Transnational Phenomenon”; “Between Irony and Empathy: The Yiddish-Speaking Jesus” panelist “Yiddish and Christianity,” Modern Languages Association (MLA) Chicago, 2007
Glaser 4 “Alcoholism in V. G. Korolenko’s Prose,” panelist, “Alcoholism in Russian Literature”; round-table panelist, “New Economic Criticism,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Convention, New Orleans, 2007 “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Tavern: Money as Common Denominator in Jewish-Ukrainian Literary Relations,” panelist and panel-organizer, “Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Relations under the Tsarist Empire;” panelist, “New Economic Criticism Roundtable,” AAASS Convention, Washington, D. C., 2006 “Sholem Aleichem Reads Gogol,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Convention, Princeton, NY, 2006 Panelist, “New Economic Criticism: Money, Markets and Literary Exchange,” and Discussant, “Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in the Twentieth Century,” AAASS Convention, Salt Lake City, 2005 “Market Days and Shtetl Time,” American Jewish Studies (AJS) Convention, Chicago, 2004 “Mourning the Jewish Market,” Modern Languages Association (MLA), San Diego, CA, 2003 “Obmen kak narativ v Ukraine” (In Russian), International Young Scholars Seminar in Literary Studies, Shevchenko Univ., Kyiv, Ukraine, 2003 “A Jewish Writer Goes to Church: The Cathedral in Russian Jewish Literature,” AAASS, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002 “God in the Marketplace: The Eclectic Deity in Russian Jewish Lit.” CA Slavic Graduate Colloquium, Stanford, CA, 2002 “Iberzetsn Proletpen.” (In Yiddish) International Advanced Seminar in Yiddish Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY, 2001 “Translating Nonna Slepakova.” Translation and Transgression, Western Univ., London, Ontario, Canada, 1999
COURSES TAUGHT UCSD Graduate: “Graduate Theory Sequence, Part I,” “Mikhail Bakhtin”, “Modernists as Theorists, Theorists as Modernists”, “Futurism: Imagining Modernity,” “Russian Jewish Literature” (directed reading), “Nikolai Gogol” (reading with 2 students), “Translation Theory” (reading with 3 students), “Ukrainian Literature” (directed reading), “The Literature of Zionism” (directed reading), “Modern Yiddish Literature and Trauma” (directed reading) Undergraduate: “Russian Literature, 1917- Present,” “Nikolai Gogol”, “Soviet Cinema and the ‘Other,’” “Translation Theory and Practice,” “Nabokov: Beyond Lolita,” ”Border-Crossings: The Literature and Art of Immigration,” “The Yiddish Novel,” “Russia and the Jewish Imagination,” “Introduction to Critical Theory,” “Modern Jewish Literature,” “Introductory Yiddish” (directed reading), “The European Avant-Garde” (directed reading), “Translating from Russian” (directed reading), “Translation and Poetry (TAP) Practicum” (group independent study) Stanford University “The Literatures of Ukraine,” “Yiddish Language, Years 1 & 2,” “Introductory Ukrainian for Russian Speakers,” “The Yiddish Novel,” 2005-06; “Russian 101,” 2000-01; “Slavic Folk Choir,” 2000-01; Teaching Assistantships, Stanford: “The Age of Transgression: Russian Literature at the Turn of the Century” (Prof. Monika Greenleaf), 2002; “Imagining the Holocaust” (Prof. John Felstiner), 1999 Other University and Adult Education “Nabokov’s Lolita” New York-St. Petersburg Institute, 2011, “Modernists as Theorists, Theorists as Modernists,” New York- St. Petersburg Institute, 2009, “Russian Jewish Literature” (in Russian), Palo Alto Jewish Community Center, 2005; “Jewish Storytelling from Sholem Aleichem to Woody Allen,” Stanford Continuing Studies, 2005; “English Language,” American Language Center, and “English for Public Relations,” Electrotechnical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1997; Tutor in Italian and Russian, Oberlin College, 1995-97 Secondary Education Director, UCSD Translation and Poetry (TAP) Laboratory (grades 9-12), English literature and writing (grades 7-8), Torah Academy, Palo Alto, CA, 1999; English and American Studies, Petroteach (grades 6-11), St. Petersburg, Russia, 1997-98
UNIVERSITY SERVICE Faculty Advisor, Alchemy, a journal of student translation, UCSD, from 2011 Co-organizer, “Signs and Society” Workshop, Humanities Center, UCSD, from 2011 Director, Translation and Poetry Laboratory, UCSD and local Middle and High Schools, from Winter, 2010) Promotion file committees, Literature, 2008, 2010, 2011 Executive Committee, Literature Department, UCSD, 2010-2011 Director, Russian and Soviet Studies Program and Russian Literature Section, UCSD, 2009-2010; 2011-2012 Graduate Advisor, Comparative Literature, UCSD (Fall, 2008) Burke Memorial Lecture Committee, San Diego (from Spring, 2008) Thurgood-Marshall College Mentor Program, UCSD (2006-2009) Glaser 5 Public Events Committee, Literature Department, UCSD (2006-7, 2007-8) External Honors Examiner, Swarthmore College (2007) “On Giving an Effective Job Talk in the Humanities,” UCSD Career Center Panel (2007)
SERVICE TO THE FIELD AND TEACHING OUTSIDE UCSD Instructor, New York-St. Petersburg Cultural Studies and Cognitive Sciences Summer Institute (2009) MLA Committee on Yiddish Literature, member (2007-2010), secretary (2009), president (2010) External Examiner, Swarthmore College Honors Program (2007) Manuscript Reviews Yale University Press, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Press, Syracuse University Press, Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal, Folklorica, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Russian Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Melel
RELATED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Conferences, Symposia and Exhibits Organized Stories of Khmelnyts’kyi, an international symposium on Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Relations, UCSD, 2012 California Graduate Slavic Colloquium, UCSD, 2012 Timothy Snyder, “Bloodlands,” UCSD, 2012 Marci Shore, “A Taste of Ashes,” UCSD, 2012 A celebration of poetry and translation, with Jerome Rothenberg and High Tech High Students, UCSD, 2011 Assaf Gavron, Almost Dead, 2011 Richard Fein, Translating Yiddish Poetry in the Twenty-first century, 2011 A celebration of poetry and translation, with Rae Armantrout, Alberto Blanco and High Tech High Students, UCSD, 2010 Russian Film Series, organized and presented with Prof. Robert Edelman (History), UCSD, 2010 Elif Batuman, “The Possessed: A Reading,” UCSD, 2010 Jeffrey Kopstein, “Primed to Hate? Local Political Milieux and Jewish Persecution in Occupied Poland,” UCSD, 2008 Ronald Robboy, “The Yiddish Cowboy: On the Trail of Politics and Ideology in Yiddish Novelist Isaac Raboy’s Narratives of the North American Prairie,” UCSD, 2008 Ilya Kaminsky, Reading and Discussion of his poetry and translation, UCSD, 2008 Andriy Kurkov, “Writing in Russian in Ukraine,” a discussion and film screening, UCSD, 2008 Marci Shore lecture organized: “Love and Death in a Time of Revolution: Or, Do Non-Jewish Jews Belong to Jewish History?,” UCSD, 2008 Todd Presner, “Travelling through German-Jewish History in the Digital Age,” UCSD, 2007 “A Discussion on Post-Soviet Korean Identity” with Alexandr Kan and Steven Lee, UCSD, 2006 Daniel Galay: Concert and lecture organized, Stanford, 2005 Piotr Sommer: Polish-English poetry reading organized, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2005 “Isaac Babel: A Writer’s Life.” Exhibit and Conference Asst. to Prof. Gregory Freidin, Stanford, 2003 Secular Yiddish Schools of America. Cataloguing for Greene Library’s archival acquisition, 2002 “Between Two Worlds: An-sky in the 21st Century.” Conference Asst. to Prof. Gabriella Safran, Stanford, 2000-01 Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, Lithuania. Summer research assistant, translator, exhibit guide, 1998, 1999 Films Odessa…Odessa. Translation and expert consultation (Sundance and Berlin film festivals, 2005), 2005 Miracles in Chernivtsi. Co-directed with Vladimir Kleyman (Stanford Student film festival, 2004), 2004 End of the Road. Asst. to Prof. Dovid Katz and Director Saulius Berzhines during summer, 1998 on their film about the last Yiddish speakers of Belarus. Council of Europe, 2001 Additional training Advanced Ukrainian Language, Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, 2010 Jerusalem Ulpan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2006 U. IL Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Urbana-Champagne, IL, 2006 International Advanced Summer Seminar in Yiddish Studies., Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, 2001, 2002 University of Vilnius. Lithuania. Summer courses in Yiddish, 1998, 1999
Glaser 6 CIEE Program: Gorny Institute, St. Petersburg. Russian Language and Culture, 1995 Liceo Scientifico Gino Segre, Turin, Italy, AFS foreign exchange program, 1992-93
LANGUAGES Fluent: Russian, Yiddish, Italian; Near-fluent: Ukrainian; Reading: Hebrew, French
Academic Memberships Modern Languages Association (MLA), Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR)
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