Brett Winestock
Email: Brett.Winestock@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building
6135 University Ave.
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Brett Winestock is anAssistant Professor of Russian Studies at 鶹ý. He received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University in 2020 and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Leibniz-Institute for Jewish History and Culture (Simon Dubnow) in Germany. He is the author of the book Written for the Drawer: Leonid Tsypkin, Uncensored Literature, and Soviet Jewishness(University of Wisconsin Press, 2024), and his research has also appeared in In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies and The Russian Review. He hasexperience teaching at the University of Toronto, Stanford University, and Leipzig University. At 鶹ý, he teaches the Russian language and classes on Eastern Europe's literature, cinemas, and cultures, as well as coordinates the Russian Program Abroad in Daugavpils, Latvia..
Education
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures. Stanford University, 2020.
M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures. University of Toronto, 2012.
Hon. B.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures. University of Toronto 2011.
Monograph
Written for the Drawer: Leonid Tsypkin, Uncensored Literature, and Soviet Jewishness(University of Wisconsin Press, 2024).
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Dovid Bergelson Crossing the Neutral Zone: How ‘The Red Army Soldier’ Became ‘By the Telephone.’” Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts /Dubnow Institute Yearbook XX 2022/2023(Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024).
“‘Brother Jews of the Entire World!’ Bergelson, Hofshteyn, and Soviet Yiddish in the Worldwide Jewish Family.” In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, November 2022:
“Christianity, Communism, and Translating Russian Jews: Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Daniel Stein and Aleksandr Meilakhs’s Bentsion Shamir.” The Russian Review81 (January 2022): 45-65.