
- amglaser@ucsd.edu
- (858) 534-3809
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Arts & Humanities Bldg (RWAC)
Room 347
Mail Code: 0410
Professor
Amelia Glaser holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.St from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D from Stanford University. Prof. Glaser teaches courses in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish literature, translation studies, and transnational literary theory. Her research interests include the intersection of Slavic and Jewish literatures from the nineteenth century to the present, as well as the poetics of leftist internationalism. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (2012) and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to PalestineI (2020). She is the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (2015) and, with Steven Lee, Comintern Aesthetics (2020). She is the translator of Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (2005) and, with Yuliya Ilchuk, Halyna Kruk’s A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails (2023). She is the curator of the Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Archive (ukrpoetry.org), and is currently at work on a book about Ukrainian poetry.
Languages: English, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish