Amelia M. Glaser

Amelia M. Glaser is a writer, translator, and scholar based at the University of California — San Diego. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (U. Wisconsin Press, 2012), and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard UP, 2020); the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford UP, 2015) and, with Steven S. Lee, Comintern Aesthetics (U. Toronto Press, 2020); and the translator of Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (U. Wisconsin Press, 2005) and, with Yuliya Ilchuk, Halyna Kruk’s A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails (Arrowsmith Press, 2023). Her Op-Eds, short essays and translations have appeared in a variety of venues, including The New York Times, CNN, Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Review of Books and LitHub.