Nadja Berkovich
Education
- Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign (2016)
- M.A., Russian literature, Boston College (2003)
Courses Taught
- RUS 101 – Beginner’s Russian
- RUS 201 – Intermediate Russian
- RUS 257 Communism and Catastrophe
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
“The Women of Empire Strike Back (1856),” Picturing Russian Empire. Eds. Valerie A. Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov and Joan Neuberger. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/picturing-russian-empire-9780197600528?cc=us&lang=en&#
“A Woman’s Writing About the Jewish Past in Vertlib’s Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur,” The Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocide. Eds. Victoria Khiterer and Erin Magee. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. pp. 149-171.
Articles
“Science Against Injustice: A Literary Investigation of Bogoraz’s ‘Silhouettes from Gomel',” East European Jewish Affairs. Vol. 51, Issue 1, 2021. pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2021.1952023
“The Steamroller and the Violin (Tarkovskii, 1960),” in Birgit Beumers, ed. World Film Locations: Moscow (Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2014), pp. 48-49.
Book Reviews
Review of Marat Grinberg. The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines. Brandeis University Press, 2023. The Russian Review, 84.3, (2025), pp. 529-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.70043
Review of Mikhail Krutikov. From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. Slavic and East European Journal 58.1 (2014), pp. 164-166.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Leonid Leonov,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Ed. Megan Swift. (Routledge, 2016). Web only. https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/leonov-leonid-maksimovich-1899-1994 doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM663-1
Languages
- Russian (native)
- English (fluent)
- German (fluent)
- Yiddish (advanced)
- French (intermediate)
- Hebrew (intermediate)
- Italian (intermediate)
- Spanish (intermediate)