Rachel Rubinstein
Rachel Rubinstein
- Doctor of Philosophy, Department of English and American Literature, Harvard University, 2003
- Bachelor of Arts, Department of English, Yale University, 1993
Rachel Rubinstein has been Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences since 2021. Prior to coming to Springfield College, she served as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Commissioner of Academic Affairs and Student Success at the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, focusing on the state’s Equity Agenda; as the inaugural Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at Holyoke Community College; and, for 16 years, as Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies at Hampshire College, where she also served as Dean of Academic Support and Advising for six years. She was a Fulbright fellowship award recipient in 2013-2014.
The child of immigrants from Mexico, her scholarship focuses on migration, multilingualism, translation, racial formation and literary nationalism, as well as on pedagogies in the fields of ethnic and race studies.
Selected Works
Publications
Book
Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination (Wayne State UP, 2010)
Books Edited
Teaching Jewish American Literature, co-edited with Roberta Rosenberg (Modern Language Association, 2020)
Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture, co-edited with Cammy, Quint, and Horn (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, 2009)
Articles and Book Chapters (selected)
“‘Oyb m’zukht gefint men:’ Translating a Literature Hiding in Plain Sight,” Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, eds Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, and Ashley Walters (Wayne State University Press, Forthcoming Spring 2024)
“Kristobal Kolon: The Yiddish Columbus,” Introduction and Translated Excerpts, Jews Across the Americas, 1492- eds. Adriana Brodsky and Laura Leibman (NYU Press, 2023)
“The Yiddish Columbus: Critical Counter-History and the Re-Mapping of American-Jewish Literature” (In geveb, November 2022)
“Translating Cuba: Language, Race and Homeland in Cuban-Yiddish Poetry of the 1930s,” Caribbean-Jewish Crossings: Atlantic Literature and Theory, eds. Sarah Casteel and Heidi Kaufman (University of Virginia Press New World Studies Series, 2019)
“Walt Whitman and Native and Immigrant Cultures,” Walt Whitman in Context, eds. Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
“‘Strange Rendering:’ Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Yiddish” American Jewish History Special Issue on New Literary Histories, Volume 101, Number 1 (January 2017): 35-55.
“Encountering Native Origins,” Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature, Hana Wirth-Nesher, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
