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