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Rafael Tsirkin-Sadan has received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and served as the Stanley A. and Barbara B. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. His research interests include: Russian literature and intellectual history, Hebrew literature, literature and history, transnationalism and narratives of immigration. Rafi is the author of two books Jewish Letters at the Pushkin Library: Y.H. Brenner's work and its connection to Russian Literature and Thought (Bialik Institute, 2013), and Wandering Heroes, Committed Writers: Nihilists and Nihilism in Russian Literature (Van Leer/Hakibutz Hameuhad, forthcoming in 2015). As a Postdoctoral Fellow of Israeli Partnership in Russian Studies he will be teaching two courses at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "October Revolution in Film and Literature" and "Family-breakdown in Anna Karenina and Brothers Karamazov"
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