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Allison Schachter

Title: Assistant Professor

Program: Program in Jewish Studies
Department: English

Office: 410 Benson
Phone: 343-3186
Email: allison.schachter@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley
  • B.A. Stanford University

Research Area

  • Modernism
  • Comparative Jewish Literature
  • Gender and Cultural Studies

Current Research

  • The Gender, Secularism, and Jewish Modernity (in progress)

Current Courses

  • Fall 2011
  • English 283 "Jewish American Literature"
  • Jewish Studies 248W "Jewish Storytelling"
  • Spring 2012
  • English 272 "Photography and Literature"
  • Jewish Studies 237W "World Literature"

Professional Societies

  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Association of Jewish Studies (AJS)
  • American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
  • Modernist Studies Association (MSA)

Publications

  • Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
  • "Orientalism, Secularism, and the Crisis of Hebrew Modernism: Reading Leah Goldberg’s Avedot" forthcoming in Comparative Literature. 2013.
  • "Modernist Indexicality: The Language of Gender, Race, and Domesticity in Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism," MLQ 72.4 (2011).
  • "A Lily Among Bullfrogs: Dahlia Ravikovitch and the Field of Hebrew Poetry." Prooftexts. 28:3 (2009).
  • "Dovid Bergelson and the Landscape of Yiddish Modernism." East European Jewish Affairs. 38.1 (2008).
  • "Jewish Women as Industrious Earners." Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility. December 2008. Reprinted online in JBOOKS.
  • "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).
  • REVIEWS
  • Book Review of Anita Norich's Discovering Exile and Jonathan Freedman's Klezmer America for American Literature 81.3 (September 2009).
  • "Language: A Yidisher Kop." Haaretz (English Edition), April 2, 2007 Review of Hana Wirth- Nesher's Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature.