Title: Assistant Professor
Program: Program in Jewish Studies
Department: English
Office: 427 Benson
Phone: 343-3187
Email: allison.schachter@vanderbilt.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley
- B.A. Stanford University
Research Area
- Jewish Modernism
- Hebrew and Yiddish Literature
- Comparative Jewish Literature
Current Courses
- Fall 2007
- JS 115F Gender Sexuality and Desire in Jewish Literature
- ENG 288G Jewish-American Literature
- Spring 2007
- JS 135 Introduction to Hebrew Literature
- ENG Memory and Literature
Professional Societies
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Association of Jewish Studies (AJS)
- American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Publications
- “The Shtetl and the City: The Origins of Modern Jewish Nostalgia in Shloyme reb khayims and Ba-yamim ha-hem,” Jewish Social Studies, 12.3 Summer, 2006.
- “Dovid Bergelson and the Landscape of Yiddish Modernism” Forthcoming in East European Jewish Affairs, April 2008
- "A Lily Among Bullfrogs: Dahlia Ravikovitch and the Field of Hebrew Poetry." Forthcoming in Prooftexts 28:2.