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WELCOME
Assistant Professor of the Literatures of the Jewish People
Allison Schachter
Allison Schachter has just completed a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, on “Illusions of Home: the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe in Jewish Literature.” While at Berkeley, she worked especially with Robert Alter and Chana Kronfeld. Her dissertation examined how modernist writers in Yiddish and Hebrew between the 1890s and the 1940s navigated the changing geography of Eastern European Jewish culture from its near-mythic origins in the shtetl to the centers of international modernism in Europe and in pre-state Palestine. She is at home in both Hebrew and Yiddish, and has also worked on modern French Literature. Her B.A., in Comparative Literature, comes from Stanford University, and, among the many fellowships and awards that she has received, was one to spend a year as a Fulbright Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997-98.
Allison
Schachter’s research interests cover comparative Jewish Literature,
Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, Literary and Cultural Geography, French
Jewish Culture and Literature, and Gender and Literary History. At Vanderbilt,
she will be teaching courses in 2006-07 on Gender, Sexuality and Desire
in Jewish Literature, Introduction to Hebrew Literature, and Jewish
Literary Centers.
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