Sasha Senderovich

E-mail Address: senderov[at]fas.harvard.edu

Undergraduate Degree: BA (summa cum laude) in Comparative Literature (University of Massachuetts Amherst)

Home Town: Ufa, Russia / Belmont, MA (since emigrating in 1997)

Teaching Experience: Lit & Arts A48 "Modern Jewish Literature" (teaching award, spring 2006)

Research Interests: Russian-Jewish and Soviet Yiddish Literature, and its "Ghost" Reader (a very rough working title for the future dissertation)

Fellowships and Grants Awarded:
• Presidential Scholar (2003-2008)
• Summer research grants from the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard (2003, 2004, 2005)
• FLAS for Modern Hebrew (Summer 2005; academic years 2005-2006 and 2006-2007)
• Merle Fainsod Prize (Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard, 2003)
• Elie Wiesel Essay Prize in Ethics (first prize, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, 2003)

Summer study:
• Modern Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University (2005)
• A "forshseminar" ("research seminar") for graduate students in Yiddish literature and culture at the Beit Sholem Aleichem in Tel Aviv (2005)
• Yiddish language and literature at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute (2004)
• German language at the Goethe Institut in Berlin (2004)
• Yiddish language and literature at the YIVO Institute in New York (2003)

Publications:
• "In Search of Readership: Dovid Bergelson Among the Refugees" in an edited and yet untitled volume on the Soviet Yiddish writer Dovid Bergelson (forthcoming from Oxford UK: Legenda, 2007)
• "The Hershele Maze: Isaac Babel and His 'Ghost' Reader" (in progress)

Seminar Papers:
• "The 'Ghost' Reader in the Texts of Isaac Babel, Dovid Bergelson and Moyshe Kulbak." The American Academy for Jewish Research Summer Workshop (Stanford University, June 25, 2006)
• "The Russian-Jewish Reader." Summer Lab at the Center for East European Studies (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. June 13, 2006)
• "Lost in Berlin: Dovid Bergelson among the Emigrants." Association for Jewish Studies (Washington, DC, December 2005)
• "Through the Spectacles on Isaac Babel's Nose: Self-Creation of a Russian-Jewish Writer." Graduate Student Colloquium in Jewish Modernities (University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, April 10, 2005)
• "Looking at (and beyond) Tarkovsky's Mirror: Generations, Narrative, 'Postmemory'." Slavic Lit. Colloq (Harvard, March 10 2005)
• "How Dostoyevsky's 'Jew' Is Made: Anti-Semitism and the Problems of National Identity." 36th annual convention, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (Boston, December 2004)
• Chair of the roundtable "Russian-Jewish Literature Today." 36th annual convention, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (Boston, December 2004)
• "Crime and Punishment: Between Capernaum and the Jewish Ghetto." Slavic Literature Colloquium (Harvard, April 8, 2004)