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 Adjunct Professor of Liberal
Studies
Education
- BA from Brooklyn College, 1960.
Ph.D. from Stanford University in English, 1965
E-mail: Alan.Lelchuk@Dartmouth.EDU
Alan Lelchuk is the author of six novels, including American Mischief,
Miriam at Thirty-Four, Brooklyn Boy, and Playing the Game. He has
also co-edited an anthology of Hebrew fiction in English translation, entitled
"Eight Great Hebrew Short Novels."
He is a co-founder of Steerforth Press, a literary publishing house (in
Vermont), where he serves as an editor.
He received his BA from Brooklyn College (1960,World Literature), and his
graduate degrees from Stanford Univ in English (Ph.D.,1965). He has taught at
Brandeis, Amherst College, and since 1985 at Dartmouth. (He spent a Fulbright
year at Haifa University,1986-87, as writer in residence.) He has also been a
Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.
For Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, he has taught a course in contemporary
Jewish fiction. Since WWII, Jewish writers have not only come into their own,
but have dominated the landscape of world fiction, as the course tries to
demonstrate. Readings include Isaac Babel, I.B.Singer, Ida Fink, Saul Bellow,
Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Teodor Borowski, A.B.Yehoshua, Amos Oz, Bernard
Malamud, Nadine Gordimer, and others.
During the 1999 - 2000 academic year, Professor Lelchuk was the Otto Salgo
Chair in American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest.
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