Jason Wagner teaches comparative literatures and cultures of Eastern Europe, with a focus Yiddish and Russian languages. He recently completed his doctorate in the University of Michigan’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. His dissertation, “Yiddish Ruthenias: Home Landscapes in the Modernist Poetry of Moyshe Kulbak and Dovid Hofshteyn in the Age of Revolutions and National Revivals in Eastern Europe,” takes a comparative approach to explore the metaphorical significance of landscape poems of major Yiddish poets of the modernist period in a multilingual and multicultural literary context. He also practices literary translation. He is currently revising material into academic and literary publications. Jason has taught courses on Russian Literature and Culture, Central and Eastern European Film, and Yiddish Literature. His research interests include comparative borderlands literatures, translation studies, immigrant/emigrant literatures, and conceptions of nation and national movements in twentieth century Eastern Europe.