Anna Petrov Ronell

Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, 2004
Visiting Asst. Professor, Jewish Studies Program, Wellesley College
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
617.332.5007 (home)
781.283.2915 (office)
aronell@wellesley.edu

Research Interests
Eastern European Jewish culture, Russian-Jewish literature

Current Projects
Survey of Russian-language contemporary writers in Israel

Selected Publications
"The Tower of Babel: Language and Power in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz." The Most Ancient of Minorities. The Jews of Italy. Stanislao G. Pugliese, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 331-342.

"Reading Gnessin's Sideways in its Russian Context." The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 3.2 (March 2004): 167-182.

"American-Jewish Writers Imagine Eastern Europe: Thane Rosenbaum, Rebecca Goldstein, and Jonathan Safran Foer." Forthcoming in Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry. 19.