Rachel Kaufman

Rachel Kaufman is a poet, teacher, and historian. Her work explores diasporic memory, transmission, and violence and argues for the power of poetics as historical method. Her work has appeared on poets.org and in AGNI, Harvard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Colonial Latin American Review, and elsewhere. Author of the poetry collection Many to Remember (Dos Madres Press, 2021), she will hold the Sava Ranisavljevic Professorship in Judeo-Spanish Studies at Northwestern University beginning in September 2027.