Contributors to This Issue

Contributors to This Issue

Ann W. Astell is Professor of English and Chair of Medieval Studies at Purdue University, where she is also affiliated with Jewish Studies and Religious Studies. The author of six books and the editor of three, she is currently co-editing with Justin Jackson (Hillsdale College) a collection of essays on Emmanuel Levinas and Medieval Literature. Her essay, "Saintly Mimesis, Contagion, and Empathy in the Thought of René Girard, Edith Stein, and Simone Weil," appeared in Shofar 22.2 (2004).

Sander L. Gilman is distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University as of 2005. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books. His biography of Franz Kafka appeared in 2005; his most recent edited volume Smoke: A Global History of Smoking (with Zhou Xun) appeared in 2004. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University, where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago and for four years was a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine and creator of the Humanities Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During 1990–1991 he served as the Visiting Historical Scholar at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; 1996–1997 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA; 2000–2001 as a Berlin prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; and 2004-2005 as the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Germany, and New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He was awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997 and elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin.

Janet Hadda is Professor of Yiddish, Emerita, at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author, most recently, of Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life (Oxford University Press, 1997; reprinted, with a new introduction, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). She is also a psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles and is Training and Supervising Analyst at both the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the New Center for Psychoanalysis.

Ari Y. Kelman is Associate Professor of American Studies at University of California, Davis. He has written and spoken widely on contemporary Jewish culture and is the author of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio (forthcoming, University of California Press). He has held post-doctoral fellowships at Hebrew Union College and at the University of Pennsylvania and is working on a larger project exploring the sonic dimensions of spirituality.

Elizabeth Loentz is Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include German-Jewish culture and literature, minority culture in Germany, and Yiddish in Germany. She has recently finished the book manuscript "Reading Bertha Pappenheim: the other 'Anna O.'" She is currently researching Yiddish culture in Chicago and the work of German-Jewish writer, pacifist, and feminist Clementine Krämer.

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (1997) and editor of Contemporary Writing in Austria: An Anthology (1999), A Companion to Arthur Schnitzler (2003), and A Companion to Elias Canetti (2004).

Alice Nakhimovsky is Professor of...