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Areas of interest
Comparative literature and theory of literature and art, social history of art, exile in European literature, memory and the construction of community, Freud and psychoanalysis, Frankfurt School cultural and aesthetics theories, and anarchism.
Education
- PhD, Comparative Literature (English, Russian, and German), University of Washington
- MA, English and Philosophy, University of Michigan
- BA, English and Philosophy, Western Reserve University
Biography
Jerry Zaslove was a scholar and writer of comparative literature and the social history of art who taught at Simon Fraser University since its opening year in 1965. Being at SFU from the beginning, Jerry was the Founding Faculty Member of the Department of English in 1965, Founding Director of the Institute for the Humanities in 1983, and Founding Director of the Prague Field School in 1996. Despite his mandatory retirement in 2000, Jerry remained very active in the academic and SFU community and was made the Simons Chair in Graduate Liberal Studies in 2010. He continued to write and supervise graduate students until his death in 2021.