Contact Info Olin Center 332 Medford, MA 02155 Phone: 617-627-2036 Email Professor Office Hours Tue 3 - 4 p.m. Thu 3 - 4 p.m. By appointment

Gloria Ascher
Associate Professor of German Program
Co-Director of Judaic Studies

Education
B.A., Hunter College
M.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Yale University

Research Interests
German Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Sephardic Studies, Ladino Language and Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Judaic Studies.

Biography
Coming soon.

Major Publications

• '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.