Andrea Most is Associate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at Yale University, and her Masters and PhD Degree at Brandeis. Professor Most’s research areas cover 20th-century literature and culture, American theater and drama, American literature, American Jewish literature and culture, popular culture, ethnic studies, and food writing. Dr. Most’s book, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical (Harvard University Press, 2004), won the 2005 Kurt Weill Prize for distinguished scholarship on music theatre. Other publications include articles in PMLA, Theater Journal, American Jewish History, and Modern Drama, and a chapter on Jews and comic books in You Should See Yourself: Jews and Post-Modern American Culture (Rutgers UP, 2006). She received the 2004 Polanyi Prize for Literature, as well as Research Fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for work on her new project, Theatrical Liberalism, a book-length study on Jews and popular entertainment in America. In connection with this project, she served as a co-organizer of ReJewvenation: The Futures of Jewish Culture, an international conference at the University of Toronto in October 2005.
Department of English,
BA (Yale), MA, PhD (Brandeis)
Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George St., Room 827
tel: 416-946-0828,
email: andrea.most@utoronto.ca
Teaching and Research Interests
20th century literature and culture, American theater and drama, American literature, American Jewish literature and culture, popular culture, ethnic studies, food writing.
Degrees
B.A. (Yale), M.A. (Brandeis), Ph.D. (Brandeis)