Faculty Leaders

Gabriella Safran

Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, Professor and Director, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Chair, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

Gabriella Safran has written on Russian, Polish, Yiddish, and French literatures and cultures. Her most recent book, 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.

Professor Safran teaches and writes on Russian literature, Yiddish literature, folklore, and folkloristics. She is now working on several projects investigating nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian, Yiddish, and American writing and performance in the context of the history of listening.

As the chair of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Professor Safran is increasingly interested in higher education and the changes that it is undergoing at present.