Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies,Ìýwill be on research leave during the academic year 2015-2016, supported by fellowships from Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts and Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies. He has also received a grant from theÌýÌýto support the research and writing of his first book,ÌýSeekers of Happiness: Mobility, Culture, and the Creation of the Soviet Jew.
Recently, he moderated two public events with the author Gary Shteyngart, atÌýÌý(hosted by the Berman Center for Jewish Studies) and at theÌýÌýin Philadelphia (hosted jointly with Temple University's Feinstein Center for American Jewish History). He was also invited to teach guest classes on Shteyngart's memoirÌýLittle FailureÌýat Lafayette College and at the University of Pennsylvania.
The first chapter of his translation--a collaboration withÌý--of David Bergelson's Yiddish-language novelÌýStrict JusticeÌýwas published inÌý.