Dr. Gabriella Safran

Biography

Gabriella Safran is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor of Jewish Studies and a professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. She also holds courtesy appointments in German Studies and Comparative Literature. Safran serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Humanities and Arts and is the Chair of Graduate Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures. She obtained her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Princeton University in 1998 and a B.A. with honors in Soviet East European Studies from Yale University in 1990. Her teaching and research focus on Russian literature, Yiddish literature, folklore, and associated cultural studies. Safran is the author of 'Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky' (Harvard, 2010), a biography of an early-twentieth-century Russian-Yiddish writer and ethnographer, and her recent monograph, 'Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century' (Cornell, 2022), explores themes of auditory representation in the context of the Russian Empire. Her current research includes projects on literary depictions of eldercare in Russian and Yiddish contexts.

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