Gabriella Safran
Building 240, Room 103
Phone: 650 723-4414
gsafran@stanford.edu
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Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Comparative Literature
Director, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Gabriella Safran has written on Russian, Polish, Yiddish, and French literatures and cultures. Her most recent monograph, Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky (Harvard, 2010), is a biography of an early-twentieth-century Russian-Yiddish writer who was also an ethnographer, a revolutionary, and a wartime relief worker.
Safran teaches and writes on Russian literature, Yiddish literature, folklore, and folkloristics. She is now working on two monograph projects: one on how people in the Russian Empire listened across social lines, recorded and imitated others’ voices in various media, and reflected on listening and vocal imitation, from the 1830s to the 1880s, and the other on the international pre-history of the Jewish joke.
1998: Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University.
1990: B.A., magna cum laude, with honors in Soviet and East European Studies, Yale University.
