ISRA Affiliation Level
founding member

Country
United States

Description
Jessie Labov is a postdoctoral Humanities Fellow in Comparative Literature at the Stanford Humanities Fellows Program. Her thesis Reinventing Central Europe: Cross Currents and the Émigré Writer in the 1980s presented an intellectual history of writers from Central Europe in emigration to the West towards the end of the Cold War. She is currently Chair of the "Open Source Canon" Research Group at Stanford University. Recent Publications: "Leksikon Yu Mitologije: Reading Yugoslavia from Abramovic to Zmurke, "Myth and History in Balkan Literature, ed. Tatjana Aleksic, Cambridge Scholars Press (forthcoming); "Kieslowski and the Soviet House of Culture", "Screening the City", ed. Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice (Verso, 2003).