Contributors
- Contributors
Alan Astro is Professor of Modern Languages at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He has published more than thirty articles on writers as diverse as Bashevis, Baudelaire, Beckett, and Borges, and is the editor of Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Yiddish Writing from Latin America (University of New Mexico Press, 2003).
Monique R. Balbuena is Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors College at the University of Oregon. She is the Secretary of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA), and was a Starr Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University and a Frankel Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal for Jewish Identities, the Journal for the Study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry, and the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, which she recently joined as the Modern Literature Editor. Balbuena is also the author of Poe e Rosa à luz da Cabala (Imago, 1994) and Homeless Tongues: Poetry & Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora (Stanford University Press, 2012). Her current book project is provisionally titled Ladino in Latin America: Language Revival and National Identity.
Sara Blair teaches in the English Department, the Program in American Culture, and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Her recent work, including Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2007) and the forthcoming Documentary Reconsidered (co-authored with Eric Rosenberg, University of California Press), discusses the intersections between literary and visual cultures. She is currently working on a book focused on imaging histories and practices generated in response to the distinctive modernity of the Lower East Side.
Adriana M. Brodsky, Associate Professor of Latin American History at St. Mary's College of Maryland, obtained her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2004. She is currently finishing her manuscript entitled "Becoming Argentine Jews: Sephardim and the Construction of Ethnic and National Identities, 1880-1960," which focuses on the Sephardic communities that settled in Argentina from the end of the nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Her research interests center on the construction of the Argentine Jewish community from the perspective of the Sephardic minority, on the participation of Sephardim in the Zionist [End Page xii] movement, and on the role played by ethnic minorities in the formation of the nation.
Elisa Cohen de Chervonagura received her Ph.D. in Literature from the National University of Tucumán and is Associate Professor in the Spanish Language Department of the School of Philosophy and Letters at the National University of Tucumán and Independent Researcher at CONICET. She has won numerous prizes, namely the 2010 Outstanding Women Award from San Miguel de Tucumán City Hall, and the Third National Prize of Linguistics, Philology, and History of Arts and Letters awarded by the Office of the President, among others. She was visiting professor at the Cátedra San Martín at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She has published eight books and many articles. She also writes criticism reviews that appear in national and international newspapers.
Erin Graff Zivin is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on constructions of "Jewishness" in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, aesthetic representations of torture and interrogation, and the intersection of ethical philosophy and critical theory. She is the author of The Wandering Signifier:Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008) and editor of The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Judith Morganroth Schneider is Associate Professor of French and Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her research focuses on intercultural issues and diasporic consciousness in the works of Jewish writers of the diaspora, especially those of France and Latin America. She has written a book entitled Clown at the Altar on the religious poetry of Max Jacob, a French Jewish convert to Catholicism, and has also published articles on the French Jewish writers Albert Memmi, Liliane Atlan, and Albert Cohen. In the field of...
