Naomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. Her fourth book, Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition, won the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women’s Studies National Jewish Book Award in 2019.

Giulia Po DeLisle is Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Italian Language and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she teaches classes of Italian language, cinema, and literature. Her fields of interest include Women’s Studies, Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, and Italian Cinema. 

Allison Schachter is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Chair of the Jewish Studies Department at Vanderbilt. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. She is the author of Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2013). She just completed a second manuscript entitled Experiments in Prose: Women Writing Jewish Modernity. She is also a translator from the Yiddish and is currently working on Fradel Shtok’s short fiction.

Adia Mendelson-Maoz is associate professor of Israeli literature and culture and the Chair of the Department of Literature, Language and Arts at the Open University of Israel. She specializes in the multifaceted relationships between literature, ethics, politics, and culture, mainly in the context of Hebrew Literature and Israeli culture. Mendelson-Maoz is the author of numerous articles in books and journals and has published three books: Literature as Moral Laboratory 2009 (in Hebrew), Multiculturalism in Israel - Literary Perspectives (Purdue UP, 2014), and Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada, (Purdue UP, 2018). She discovered Yoram Kaniuk's unpublished manuscript Sabon (Soap, 2018) and acted as consulting editor for its publication.

Jodi Eichler-Levine is Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization and Associate Professor of Religion Studies at Lehigh University. She is the author of Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community (UNC Press, 2020) and Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature (NYU Press, 2013).

Giddon Ticotsky, literary scholar, graduated from the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University in 2014. In that year he won the Israeli Bahat Prize for the best original scholarly book in Hebrew for his Ph.D. dissertation about Dahlia Ravikovitch. Co-Chief Editor of Hakibbutz Hameuchad-Sifriat Poalim Publishing House in Israel, he was awarded in 2019 the Levi Eshkol Prime minister's Creativity Prize for Hebrew authors. 

Esther Schor, the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies at Princeton, is a scholar, biographer, poet, and essayist. Her 2006 biography Emma Lazarus won the National Jewish Book Award. Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language, published in 2016, is a cultural history/memoir of the Esperanto movement. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Jewish Review of Books, Tablet, and the Forward. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and London. 

Stanley Mirvis is the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), the co-editor of From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times (Leiden: Brill, 2018), and the co-author of Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean: The Legacy of Judaism in the New World (Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2016)

Norman Ravvin is a writer, critic, and teacher. His publications include A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory, the novels The Girl Who Stole Everything and Lola by Night, and the co-edited Canadian Jewish Studies Reader. He is at work on a memoir and social history of early 1930s Canadian immigration. A native of Calgary, he lives in Montreal, where he teaches at Concordia University in the Department of Religions and Cultures.