Samantha Baskind, Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University, is the author of five books, most recently The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture (2018), and co-editor of The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (2008), the foundational volume in the field. Baskind has published over 100 articles and reviews in academic journals, museum catalogues, edited collections, encyclopedias, and the popular press. She served as editor for U.S. art for the 22-volume revised edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica and is currently series editor of Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination, published by Penn State University Press.

Dr. Anne Summers is an Honorary Research Fellow in History at Birkbeck, University of London, and Chair of the Friends of The Women's Library. Formerly a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Curator of Modern Historical Manuscripts at the British Library, her latest monograph is Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940: Living with Difference.

Ellery Weil is a doctoral candidate at University College London (UCL). Her work focuses on internationalism and alliance-building in the Jewish women’s movement at the turn of the twentieth century. She currently holds an MA from UCL and a BA from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor.

Alison Rose is part-time Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Rhode Island and part-time Instructor of Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University. She is the author of two books, Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna and Antisemitism, Gender Bias, and the “Hervay Affair” of 1904: Bigotry in the Austrian Alps.

Avery Weinman received her Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2019, and is now a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Primarily, her work focuses on histories of Mizrahi Jews in the modern period, the political history of the modern state of Israel, and the creation and utilization of collective memories.

Anat Dan works at the intersection of Film and Media studies, Human Rights, and Environmental Humanities. She is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MFA degree and an MA degree from The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University.

Shoshana Olidort is Web Editor for the Poetry Foundation and is completing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her research focuses on Jewish women’s poetry in the 20th and 21st centuries across English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.  

Maya Balakirsky Katz is Associate Professor of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University and a senior candidate at the New Jersey Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010) and Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (Rutgers, 2016).

Arielle Silver-Willner is an Editorial Assistant and writer at Lilith magazine. She also teaches writing to children and spends her free time taking photos and working on her first novel.

Jennifer Baumgardner is the author of several books about feminism, including Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future; the director/producer of the documentaries I Had an Abortion and It Was Rape; and the owner of Dottir Press, a feminist publisher. She is former executive director of the Feminist Press, editor at Ms. magazine, and editor in chief of the Women's Review of Books. Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Jennifer lives in New York City with her husband, two sons, and two Abyssinians.

Alona Bach received a BA in History of Science from Harvard and an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. She is currently a PhD student in MIT’s History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society program.

Dr. Karen E. H. Skinazi is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol in the UK. A literary and cultural critic, she specializes in women’s writing. She is the author of Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2018), which was awarded Honorable Mention for the Canadian Association for American Studies’ Robert K. Martin book prize, and she also published a critical edition of Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna’s 1916 novel, Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2012). She is currently working on a project examining the productive interface between Muslim and Jewish women’s lives, literature, and activism. Her essays have appeared in such academic journals as Legacy, Shofar, OLH, and MELUS, as well as such popular venues as The Conversation, The Jewish Daily Forward, and Tablet Magazine. 

Catherine Caufield, PhD (Toronto) is interested in polysemic expression of religious experience and ways in which diverse discourses co-exist between, and within, religions.

Rosita Scerbo is an Assistant Professor of Latinx Culture at Allegheny College. She is a published author of book chapters and research articles in both Spanish and English. Her research interests include Latin American Visual Autobiography, Digital Humanities, Argentine Narrative, Jewish Women’s Migration Identity, and Feminist/Queer Theory.

Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman in an award-winning author, anthropologist, and feminist activist. Her books, two of which have won the National Jewish Book Council award, focus on gender, religion, education, politics, and society. She ran for Israel’s Knesset in 2020 as Chair of the Kol Hanashim Women’s Party.

Jessica Kirzane is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago and the Editor-in-Chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. She is the author of several pedagogical resources, academic articles, and translations, which have appeared in The Journal of Jewish Identity, American Jewish History, In geveb, Pakn Treger, Columbia Journal, Digital Yiddish Theater Project, and elsewhere.  She is the translator of Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle against Free Love by Miriam Karpilove (Syracuse University Press, 2019).

Jessica Pearson-Bleyer is a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University. Her research interests include women writers in American musical theatre and the ethical representation of gender, race, ethnicity and ability. 

Nili Rachel Scharf Gold is a professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Israel and educated at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she received her masters and doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Formerly a professor at Columbia University, she joined the faculty at Penn in 2000. She has authored three books. Not Like a Cypress (1994) was published in Hebrew, and her two English books, Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel’s National Poet (2008) and Haifa: City of Steps (2017), both were subsequently published in Hebrew. Dr. Gold has published dozens of articles in American, European, and Israeli academic journals, as well as the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. 

Tahneer Oksman is an associate professor of Academic Writing at Marymount Manhattan College, the author of “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs (Columbia University Press, 2016), and the co-editor of the anthology, The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself (University Press of Mississippi, 2018). She often publishes reviews and interviews about graphic novels and illustrated works for publications including the Women’s Review of Books, The Believer, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Natania Remba earned a master’s degree in education and cultural studies from Harvard University and a Masters in Art History from Boston University. She curated Mixografia: Method and Medium and Surrounded by Water: Expressions of Freedom and Isolation in Contemporary Cuban Art and directed multiple community-based research projects with U.S. Latino populations at Harvard. Remba’s research focus on Mexican, Cuban, and Jewish contemporary art has influenced her publications: Crossing Creative and Cultural Barriers, Globalization in the Contemporary Cuban Art World, and El perpetuo exilio: Símbolos judaicos del desplazamiento en las artes latinoamericanas de Víctor Manuel, Frida Kahlo, y José Gurvich. She is currently authoring a book on Mexican art prints.