Sunny Yudkoff
German and Jewish Studies
Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies and Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies, Director of Graduate Studies (German)
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Office Number: 1352 Van Hise Hall
Biography
Language: Yiddish, Hebrew, English
Research/Language Interests: Yiddish and Hebrew literature; Jewish American literature and culture; medical humanities; multilingual modernisms, visual culture.
About: Sunny Yudkoff joined the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, & Slavic+ Studies in the fall of 2016. Her first book, Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing, was published with Stanford University Press (2019). Her work has appeared in Prooftexts, Jewish Social Studies, Comparative Literature, Literature and Medicine, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on her second monograph, On Yiddish Joy.
Affiliated Departments: Department of English, CREECA
Education:
• Harvard University, Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (2015)
• Oxford University, MSt. in Jewish Studies (2007)