Harriet Murav
Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita in the Departments of Comparative and World Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Harriet Murav is a Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita in the Departments of Comparative and World Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The author of six monographs, five co-edited books, and articles on Russian and Yiddish literature, Murav has also co-translated David Bergelson’s Judgment (2017) with Sasha Senderovich in addition to In the Shadow of the Holocaust (2026). Her co-edited volume on the Yiddish poet David Hofshteyn will appear in 2026. Her new project, Living Out of Time, examines time, waiting, and wartime in contemporary Ukrainian poetry.