Mikhail Krutikov

Name: Mikhail Krutikov

Title(s):

• Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures; Assistant Professor, Judaic Studies
• Assistant Professor

Contact Information: 734.647.2136 , krutikov@umich.edu

Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic/facstaff

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CREES
• CICS

Department Affiliation(s):

• Slavic Languages & Literatures
• Judaic Studies

Education Background: Diploma, Mathematics, Moscow State University, 1979; Certificate, Yiddish Language and Literature, A.M. Gorky Institute of Literature, Moscow, 1991; Ph.D., Jewish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, 1998

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• Russian and East European Studies

Related Countries:

• Russia
• Poland
• Israel

Research/Teaching Specialization: Yiddish literature and culture, Jews in Eastern and Central Europe, contemporary Jewish literature

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Zionism and Communism; Yiddish Literature in Translation; Cultural History of Jews in Europe, 1750-1881; History of Yiddish Studies; Introduction to the Culture of Russian Jews; Young Rebel as Hero in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian Literature; Cultural Studies: Jews and Modernism; Jewish Writing in 20th Century Central and Eastern Europe