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Associate Professor
Research interests
- mobility, pilgrimage and migration in the ancient world.
- landscape, religious experience and spirituality.
- emotion in archaeology.
Accepting applications from PhD students
Research interests
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Russian émigré literature
- The Jewish 'Other' in the text
Research interests
- Holocaust studies
- German-Jewish History
- Archives and collections
Professor
Research interests
- History and culture of Jews in Belarus from 1772 to 1939, including Belarusian-Jewish relations
- Jewish art in Eastern Europe, more specifically in Belarus and Ukraine
- Nationalities policy in the Russian/Soviet western borderlands
Accepting applications from PhD students
Associate Professor
Research interests
- Marriage – in literature, memoir, film, art, psychoanalysis, feminism and philosophy.
- Docufiction (cinema) and life-writing/autofiction (literature).
- Humour – joking, comedy (especially in relation to e.g. language theory, politics, religion, sex).
Accepting applications from PhD students
Research Fellow
Research interests
- Holocaust studies
- Film philosophy and ethics
- Central and Eastern Europe
Accepting applications from PhD students
Lecturer
Research interests
- Politics and culture in late Imperial Russia
- Russian identity, Russian nationalism
- Historiography of modern Russia
Associate Dean Research & Enterprise
Research interests
- Jewish-Christian relations and Jewish-Muslim relations
- Interpretation of midrashic literature
- Apocalyptic, eschatology and messianism
Accepting applications from PhD students