Sunny Yudkoff
Credentials: German and Jewish Studies
Position title: Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email: yudkoff@wisc.edu
Address:
Office Number: 1352 Van Hise Hall
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)