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.