Faculty Profiles German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Department
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Name: Gloria J. Ascher
Title: Associate Professor of German
Departmental Affiliation: German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Yale University; M.A. Yale University; B.A. Hunter College
Expertise: German, Scandinavian, Judaic Studies
Major Awards: Fullbright Grant, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Mass Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy, Mass Council on Folk Life and Ethnic Arts
E-mail: gascher@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: 'Die Zauberfloete' und 'Die Frau ohne Schatten': Ein Vergleich zwischen zwei Operndichtungen der Humanitaet. Berne and Munich: Francke Verlag, 1972.

"Goethes 'Torquato Tasso' und Hofmannsthals 'Unterhaltung ueber den "Tasso" von Goethe': Ein magisches Verhaeltnis." Lebendige Form. Interpretation zur deutschen Literatur. Festschrift fuer Heinrich E. K. Henel. Ed. Jeffery L. Sammons and Ernst Schuerer. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1970, 89-99.

"Hauptmanns 'Veland' als moderne Umdichtung einer altgermanischen Sagentradition." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 81 (1982), 509-525.

Elias Canetti and His Sephardic Heritage." Shofar 8 (Spring 1990), 16-29.

"Proverbs and Expressions from Bronx Izmirli Family: Toward a Sephardic View of the World." Shofar 10 (Fall 1991), 51-56.

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