Recent Faculty Research

GSLL faculty continually publish research in a variety of scholarly fields on an vast array of topics.

Books since 2012

Adi Nester. Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity
Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2025.

Ruth von Bernuth. The Lives of Jewish Things: Collecting and Curating Material Culture.
Edited by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and Ruth von Bernuth
Detrait, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2024.

Priscilla Layne. The Marriage of Maria Braun.
Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2024.

Richard Langston. Sex und Soziabilität: Schwule Poetik in den 1980er Jahren.
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. 2024.

Priscilla Layne. Out of This World: Afro-German Afrofuturism
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2024.

Aleksandra Prica. Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Richard Langston. The Patriot.
Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2021.

Stanislav Shvabrin. Vladimir Nabokov et la traduction. Sous la direction de Julie Loison-Charles et Stanislav Shvabrin.
Collection: Traductologie.
Artois: Presses Université, 2021.

Richard Langston. Dark Matter: A Guide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt.
London & New York: Verso Books, 2020.

Stanislav Shvabrin. Between Rhyme and Reason: Vladimir Nabokov, Translation, and Dialogue.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.

Eric Downing. The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought 1850-1940.
Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.

Priscilla Layne. White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture.
University of Michigan Press, 2018.

Inga Pollmann. Cinematic Vitalism: Moving Images and the Question of Life
Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Ruth von Bernuth. How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition.
New York: New York University Press, 2016.

Gabriel Trop. Poetry as a Way of Life: Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015.

Edited Volumes since 2012

Richard Langston. Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader. Ed. Richard Langston. Trans. Emma Woelk et al.
Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2019.

Gabriel Trop, Edgar Landgraf, Leif Weatherby. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.

Chekhov’s Letters: Biography, Context, Poetics. Edited by Carol Apollonio and Radislav Lapushin.
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018.

Jonathan M. Hess, Maurice Samuels, and Nadia Valman, eds. Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature : A Reader.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.

Translations since 2012

Olivia Wenzel. 1000 Coils of Fear. English Translation by Priscilla Layn.
New York: Catapult Press, 2022.

Nikolai Gogol. The Nose. English Translation and Commentary by Stanislav Shvabrin. With 16 Artworks and a Flipbook by William Kentridge.
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2021.

В.Ф. Марков. Очерк истории русского имажинизма (1919-1927). Составление, предисловие и перевод с английского Станислава Швабрина при участии автора.
Москва-Екатеринбург: Кабинетный ученый, 2017.

Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin, translated into English by Vladimir Nabokov, with the Russian in Cyrillic and transliteration by Stanislav Shvabrin, and with an introduction by Brian Boyd; frontispiece by Stan Washburn portraying Pushkin and Nabokov.
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2018.

Georgy Ivanov. Disintegration of the Atom. Petersburg Winters. Edited, Translated, Annotated and with an Introduction by Jerome Katsell and Stanislav Shvabrin.
Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2016.

Брайан Бойд. «Бледный огонь» Набокова: волшебство художественного открытия. Перевод с английского и предисловие Станислава Швабрина.
Санкт-Петербург: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2015.

Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt. History and Obstinacy. Ed. Devin Fore. Trans. Richard Langston et al.
New York: Zone Books, 2014.