Amelia Glaser is Associate Professor of Russian and comparative literature at UC San Diego and UC San Diego Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies. She has also served as the director of UC San Diego’s Jewish Studies and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies programs. This academic year she is the 2021–2022 Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, where she is investigating contemporary literature and art in Ukraine to better understand how a collective identity can be publicly reimagined during, and immediately following, political upheaval.
Glaser’s first book, Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (2012), explored Russians, Ukrainians and Jews who described one another in fiction and poetry from the imperial Russian Pale of Settlement. Professor Glaser is also the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (2015), co-editor of Comintern Aesthetics (2020), and translator of Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (2005).
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Jewish Studies Program
UC San Diego