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

• On leave Fall 2009 and Spring 2010.

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 (2006).
• “Dovid Bergelson and the Landscape of Yiddish Modernism.” East European Jewish Affairs. 38.1 (2008).
• "A Lily Among Bullfrogs: Dahlia Ravikovitch and the Field of Hebrew Poetry." Prooftexts. 28:3 (2008).