Professor Gershenson earned her doctorate in Communication in the United States, her
master’s degree in Israel, and her bachelor’s degree in Russia. 

She is the author of Gesher: Russian Theatre in Israel; A Study of Cultural Colonization
(Peter Lang, 2005) and co-editor of Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (Temple
UP, 2009). Her essays have appeared in such journals as Jewish Cultural Studies, Journal
of Modern Jewish Studies, Journal of Film and Video, Multilingua, Western Journal of
Communication, Journal of International Communication and several anthologies. She is now
working on a book about the representation of the Holocaust in Russian cinema. 

Professor Gershenson teaches courses about Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian cultures. 

To learn more about Professor Gershenson’s research, see her website
www.people.umass.edu/olga

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Les Insoumis (1945) ou comment un roman soviétique est devenu un film juif, Kinojudaica. Les Représentations des Juifs dans le Cinéma de Russie et d’Union Soviétique des Années 1910 aux Années 1980 (2012)
 

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The Restroom Revolution: Unisex toilets and campus politics, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (2010)
 

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Accented past: Russian immigrants in Israeli film, The Gold of Exile: Spiritual and Cultural Integration of Russian Jews in Israel (2009)
 

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Introduction: The private life of public conveniences, Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (2009)
 

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Ambivalence and identity in Russian-Jewish cinema, Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume I. Jewishness: Expression, Identity, and Representation (2008)
 

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