Alexander Ullman grauated with a PhD in English studying 20th century global Anglophone literature. He is particularly interested in how sound and ethnicity meet in 20th century literature of the African and Jewish diasporas, specifically through the uses of dialect, translation, and music. He has also written on Jewish writing ranging from medieval piyutim to the work of contemporary Israeli author David Grossman. Ullman is currently a Mellon Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in Saint Louis.
