Marina Mayorski

Graduate Student
She/Her

mayorski@umich.edu

Office Information:

Thayer 4167
hours: by appointment, in person or zoom: mayorski@umich.edu

Comparative Literature; Translation Studies; Middle East and North Africa; Mediterranean; History of the Book; Migration and Diaspora; Genre; Transnational and Global Cultures; International and Regional Studies; Eastern Europe; Southeastern Europe

Education/Degree:

MA Comparative Literature (Tel Aviv University, 2018)
MA Organizational Development (Reichman University, 2016)
BA Comparative Literature and Psychology (Tel Aviv University, 2011)

About

I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and graduate certificate student in Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I received my BA (2011) and MA (2018) in comparative literature from Tel Aviv University.

I am a scholar and a practitioner of translation. My research focuses on popular fiction and translation in the modern Jewish world. I work primarily in Hebrew, Ladino, and Yiddish, and especially translations into these languages from French, Russian, English, and Spanish. My interest lies in cross-cultural and transnational circulation of texts and ideas across linguistic, social, and political borders, and especially in contact and exchange between Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews in the modern era.

As a comparatist, my training enables me to integrate different methods, genres, and periods to explore questions about the development of modern ideas about race, religion, memory, gender, and sexuality through popular culture.

Interests: Modern Jewish Literature, Popular Culture, Translation Studies, Language Politics, Gender and Sexuality, Empire, Nationalism.

Languages: Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Portuguese, Spanish, French

About

I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and graduate certificate student in Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I received my BA (2011) and MA (2018) in comparative literature from Tel Aviv University.

I am a scholar and a practitioner of translation. My research focuses on popular fiction and translation in the modern Jewish world. I work primarily in Hebrew, Ladino, and Yiddish, and especially translations into these languages from French, Russian, English, and Spanish. My interest lies in cross-cultural and transnational circulation of texts and ideas across linguistic, social, and political borders, and especially in contact and exchange between Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews in the modern era.

As a comparatist, my training enables me to integrate different methods, genres, and periods to explore questions about the development of modern ideas about race, religion, memory, gender, and sexuality through popular culture.

Interests: Modern Jewish Literature, Popular Culture, Translation Studies, Language Politics, Gender and Sexuality, Empire, Nationalism.

Languages: Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Portuguese, Spanish, French

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About

I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and graduate certificate student in Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I received my BA (2011) and MA (2018) in comparative literature from Tel Aviv University.

As a comparatist, my training enables me to integrate different methods, genres, and periods to explore questions about the development of modern ideas about race, religion, memory, gender, and sexuality through popular culture.

About

I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and graduate certificate student in Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I received my BA (2011) and MA (2018) in comparative literature from Tel Aviv University.

As a comparatist, my training enables me to integrate different methods, genres, and periods to explore questions about the development of modern ideas about race, religion, memory, gender, and sexuality through popular culture.