Education
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1985
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emerita, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Professor Emerita, Slavic Languages and Literatures
CAS Professor Emerita, Center for Advanced Study
Highlighted Publications
Murav, H. (1992). Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky’s Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique. Stanford University Press.
Murav, H. (1998). Russia's Legal Fictions. (Law, Meaning, and Violence). University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.15732
Murav, H. (2003). Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner. (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences). Stanford University Press.
Murav, H. (2011). Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture). Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804779043
Murav, H. (2019). David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity. (Jews in Eastern Europe). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcj2qj2
Recent Publications
Murav, H. (2024). Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry: Wartime and Poetic Time. Slavic Review, 83(3), 516-520. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2024.492
Murav, H. (2021). Documentary Fiction of the Pogroms of the Civil War. In E. M. Avrutin, & E. Bemporad (Eds.), Pogroms: A Documentary History: A Documentary History (pp. 176-192). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190060084.003.0009
Murav, H. (2021). The Belatedness of David Bergelson and the Soviet Project. Ab Imperio, 2021(4), 136-146. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2021.0091
Murav, H. (2020). From the Editor. Slavic Review, 79(4), 920. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2020.205
Murav, H. (2019). Archive of violence: Neighbors, strangers, and creatures in Itsik Kipnis’s months and days. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2019(15), 49-73.