Gabriella Safran
Gabriella Safran
Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, Professor and Director, Slavic Languages and Literatures,
Chair, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Contact:
Building 260, Room 109
Phone: 650 723 4414
gsafran@stanford.edu
Office Hours:
Thursdays 10-12OVERVIEW:
Gabriella Safran has written on Russian, Polish, Yiddish, and French literatures and cultures. Her most recent book, Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky (Harvard, 2010), is a biography of an early-twentieth-century Russian-Yiddish writer who was also an ethnographer, a revolutionary, and a wartime relief worker.
Safran teaches and writes on Russian literature, Yiddish literature, folklore, and folkloristics. She is now working on two projects: a monograph investigating nineteenth-century short Russian and Yiddish fiction in the context of the history of listening, and an article looking at the interaction of the Russian and Jewish rhetorical traditions among early-twentieth-century revolutionaries.
As the chair of the DLCL, Safran is increasingly interested in the reorganization of humanities departments and the implications of that for teaching, learning, and scholarship.
CURRICULUM VITAE:
Download (right click and "save as")EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, 1998.
B.A., magna cum laude, with honors in Soviet and East European Studies, Yale University, 1990.
Courses
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DLCL311Spr2011-12
Meets regularly throughout the year to discuss issues in the professional study of literature. Topics include the academic job market and the challenges of research and teaching at different types of institutions. Supervised by the graduate affairs committee of the DLCL. May be repeated for credit.
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SLAVLIT200BAut2011-12
This course introduces graduate students in Slavic Studies to library, archival, and web resources for research, grant opportunities, publication strategies, and professional timelines. Open to PhD students in the Slavic Department and other departments and to MA students in CREEES.
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SLAVLIT198/298Spr2011-12
Eastern European Jews spoke and read Hebrew, Yiddish, and their co-territorial languages (Russian, Polish, etc.). In the modern period they developed secular literatures in all of them, and their writing reflected their own multilinguality and evolving language ideologies. We focus on major literary and sociolinguistic texts. Reading and discussion in English; students should have some reading knowledge of at least one relevant language as well.
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SLAVGEN269Spr2010-11
For two centuries intellectuals have seen the stories of peasants, children, and others as "folklore" to be collected and studied to understand ethnic histories, human universalities, orality vs literacy, and mass politics. Readings include folklore theorists such as Grimm, Propp, Ong, Lord and Perry, Dundes, and Bauman and Briggs. We read Slavic and Jewish lore, but students can examine other traditions. Assignments include folklore collection. \n\nRussian readers may sign up for a section on Russian lore and its theory (one extra unit).
