Harriet Murav, Professor
Contact
Phone: (217) 333-9275
Email: hlmurav@illinois.edu
Office: 3148 FLB, on sabbatical leave 2009-10
Degree
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1985
Major Interests
Russian culture, film, women's studies, theater, and 19th century literature; also Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies.
Selected Publications
- Series Editor, "Borderlines: Russian and East European- Jewish Studies," Academic Studies Press
- Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences, ed. Daniel Boyarin, Chana Kronfeld, Naomi Seidman (Stanford University Press, 2003).
- Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels & the Poetics of Cultural Critique (Stanford University Press,1992).
- Russia's Legal Fictions (University of Michigan Press, 1998). Series on "Law, Meaning, and Violence." Winner, MLA 1999 Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures.
- "Rosenfeld, Dostoevsky, and Jewish Shame" (article in progress).
New Research
Music from a Speeding Train: Russian Jewish and Soviet Yiddish Literature of the 20th Century. A study of literary works in Yiddish and Russian, focusing on the textual, linguistic, ideological, and racialized production of the Jew's difference in Soviet Russia.