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Sasha Senderovich
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for the Humanities at Tufts
Part-time Lecturer of ILVS, Judaic Studies, Russian

Education
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2003
M.A., Harvard University, 2007
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2010

Research Interests
Literature and culture in Soviet and post-Soviet periods; Soviet and contemporary Post-Soviet Cinema; Jewish literature and culture, particularly in Russian, East and Central European contexts; cultural mobility; problems of historical memory; emigration and exile; Comparative Literature; monuments and public memory.

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Major Publications

• "Ethnography of a Vanishing Courtyard: Moshe Kulbak’s The Zelmenyaners (A Critical Introduction)," in Moshe Kulbak, The Zelmenyaners, trans. Hillel Halkin (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), under contract.
   
• Review of The Dolls [Kukly], dir. by Chingiz Rasulzade (Azerbaijan, 2010), in KinoKultura 31 (forthcoming Dec. 2010)
   
• "The Hershele Maze: Isaac Babel and His Ghost Reader," in Justin Cammy et al (eds.) Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays in Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth Wisse (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008), pp. 233-254.
   
• "In Search of Readership: David Bergelson Among the Refugees," in Joseph Sherman and Gennady Estraikh (eds.) David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism (London, UK: Legenda, 2007), pp. 150-166.