Rebecca Glasberg

Rebecca Glasberg is a specialist of postcolonial French-language North African literature. Her dissertation, After Colonizer and Colonized: Algerian Jews and the Legacies of North African Literature in French, reconceptualizes the place of Jews and Jewishness in French-language North African literary production from the mid-twentieth century to the present day by interrogating (a) how Algerian authors mobilize Jewishness in their works, (b) what it means for these non-Jewish authors to represent Jewish life, and (c) how these interreligious engagements allow for the articulation of broader cultural and critical concerns. 

Together with Lia Brozgal, Rebecca recently co-edited A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar (UC Press, 2023) and served as project manager and lead translator for Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum’s Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934–1950 (Stanford UP, 2022). Rebecca is also delighted to have her work appearing in the Fall 2023 issue of Esprit Créateur.

In addition to developing her first book manuscript, during her time at Stanford Rebecca aims to continue her research into counternarratives of colonial-era Algerian Jewish experience and to begin work on her next project, which examines representations of the Holocaust in Mediterranean literature, film, and politics. A former public-school teacher, she is also thrilled to have the opportunity to offer courses on race, ethnicity, and religion in French-language literature and cinema.