Gabriella Safran

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Contact Information:

Building 240, Room 103
650 723 4414
gsafran@stanford.edu

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.

Research
Interests:
Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature; Polish literature; Yiddish literature; Jewish Studies; folklore; Realism
Teaching
Current Courses:
Readings in Russian RealismOpen to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Russian realist and naturalist prose emerged in a historical context that fostered specific ideas about the function and form of the literary word. Readings from Turgenev, Goncharov, Leskov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky, Garshin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin. Discussions in English.Aut
Modernism and the Jewish VoiceSome of the most haunting literary voices of the 20th century emerged from the Jewish communities of Eastern and Central Europe. The Jewishness of the modernists is thematized, asking whether it contributed to shared attitudes toward text, history, or identity. Their works are situated in specific linguistic traditions: Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, or German. Primary readings from Ansky, Bialik, Mandelstam, Babel, Schulz, Kafka, Celan; secondary readings in history, E. European literature, and theory, including Marx, Freud, Benjamin, and Arendt.Spr
Selected Publications:
TitleYear
The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century2006Link
Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire 2001Link