Faculty Profiles

Marat Grinberg came to Reed College in 2006 and is professor of Russian and Humanities. He received his BAs in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1999, and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago in 2006. He is a specialist in 20th century Russian literature and culture, with an emphasis on Soviet poetry, modern Jewish literature, culture, and politics, and post-war European and American cinema. At Reed he teaches courses in Russian poetry and 19th century novel, Russian and Jewish literature of destruction, Jewish modernisms, Soviet science fiction, Introduction to Comparative Literature, and courses on film and media studies. He is the author of I am to be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: from Right to Left: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky (Academic Studies Press 2011/ paperback 2013), TheCommissar (Intellect, 2016), and The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf (Brandeis University Press, 2022). He is also co-editor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen (Brandeis University Press, 2013) and the editor and translator of Mikhail Goldis’ Memoirs of Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine (Academic Studies Press, 2024). He has published extensively in both academic and journalistic venues on Russian and Jewish literature, culture, and cinema.