Gabriella Safran

Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
Senior Associate Dean for Humanities and Arts, School of Humanities and Sciences

Gabriella Safran (Stanford Humanities Center class of 2015-16) is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies. She teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and she is also Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Comparative Literature. She teaches and writes on Russian literature, Yiddish literature, folklore, and folkloristics. Her most recent monograph, Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky (Harvard, 2010), is a biography of an early-twentieth-century Russian and Yiddish writer who was also an ethnographer, a revolutionary, and a wartime relief worker.  She is now completing a book on how mid-19th-century Russian writers competed with each other in describing how they listened to people unlike themselves. Her next research project addresses the transnational rise of the notion of Jewish speech style as comical. 

As Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities and Arts in Stanford’s School of Humanities & Sciences, Safran serves ex-officio on the Humanities Center’s Advisory Council.

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