Dr. Amelia Glaser

Biography

Amelia Glaser holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.St. from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. As a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, she teaches courses in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish literature, translation studies, and transnational literary theory. Her research interests focus on the intersection of Slavic and Jewish literatures from the nineteenth century to the present, as well as the poetics of leftist internationalism. Glaser is the author of "Jews and Ukrainians: Russia's Literary Borderlands" (2012) and "Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry and the Struggle for Scottsboro and Palestine" (2020), and she has edited several works, including "Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising" (2015) and "Comintern Aesthetics" (2020). She has also translated significant works and is the curator of the Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Archive. Glaser is committed to mentorship, having advised multiple Ph.D. students in Comparative Literature.

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