Amelia Glaser

Ph.D. (Stanford)

Professor
Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies

Fall 2023 Syllabi: LTRU150/LTEU154, LTCO285

UCSD Hellman Fellow
On leave 2021-22 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Russian Literature (19th and 20th Century); Modern Yiddish Literature; Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; Transnational Jewish Literature; The Literatures of Ukraine.

Amelia Glaser received a BA from Oberlin College in Comparative Literature in 1997, an MSt. from the University of Oxford in Yiddish in 2000, and a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 2004. She held fellowships at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a lecturer in Jewish Studies and at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University before joining UCSD's Literature Department in 2006. Her research and teaching interests include Russian literature and film, transnational Jewish literature, the literatures of Ukraine, the literature of immigration to the US, the Russian critical tradition, and translation theory and practice. She is currently writing about poetry in contemporary Ukraine.

Mentoring Philosophy 

Graduate Advisees:

Xiaojiao Wang (Ph.D in Comparative Literature, 2022) Dissertation: "Constructing Juvenescent Spaces: Youth Mobilizations, Utopian Communities, and Law in Shanghai and Paris, 1910s-1970s"

Julia Fermentto Tzaisler (Ph.D in Comparative Literature, 2020) Dissertation: "Flesh and Blood: The Metaphorics of Meat in Modern. Jewish Culture"

Kevin Hart (Ph.D in Comparative Literature, 2018) Dissertation: "The Knower and the Known: Problems of Epistemology and Social Science in Popular Detective and Modernist Fiction"

Teresa Kuruc (Ph.D in Comparative Literature, 2018) Dissertation: "Cognitive Counterparts: The Literature of Eastern Europe’s Volatile Political Times, 1917-2017"

Yuliya Ladygina (Ph.D in Comparative Literature, 2013) Dissertation: "Narrating the Self in the Mass Age: Olha Kobylianska in the European Fin-de-Siècle and Its Aftermath, 1886-1936"

Margarita Levantovskaia (Ph.D in Comparative Literature, 2013) Dissertation: "Rootless Cosmopolitans: Literature of the Soviet-Jewish Diaspora"

Sarika Talve-Goodman (Ph.D in Cultural Studies, 2015) Dissertation: "Hysterical Loss: The Poetics of Illness in Modern Jewish Culture”

Books

	A Short Course in Molotov Cocktails, poems translated from Ukrainian by Amelia M. Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk ( Arrowsmith Press, Spring 2023)
	Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard University Press, 2020) [ Winner of the 2021 Schnitzer Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics]
	Comintern Aesthetics. Edited by Amelia M. Glaser and Steven S. Lee. (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
	Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising. Ed. by AG. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.
	Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2012. Paperback, 2016. [Subvention for a first monograph, Mellon Slavic Studies Initiative; Long-listed for the 2015 Historia Nova Prize for the best book on Russian Intellectual History, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press]
	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, 2012. [MLA Fenia and Yaakov Leviant   Memorial Prize for Translation in Yiddish Studies and CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles]