Contributors
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Aliza Atik is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. She is the recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Seminar Fellowship (2010) and the David Ederman Award for Best Dissertation (2013). Her research interests include Israeli and Palestinian literature, Victorian animality, fantasy at the fin de siècle, and the relationship between affect theory and biopolitical bodies. She also serves as an assistant copy-editor of the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal Victorian Literature and Culture, which is published by Cambridge Journals.
Marat Grinberg is Associate Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He has published widely on literature, film, and modern Jewish culture and politics. He is the author of "I Am to Be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: From Right to Left": The Poetics of Boris Slutsky (2011) and a coeditor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen (2013). Grinberg's essays have recently appeared in Jews in the East European Borderlands: Essays in Honor of John D. Klier, Soviet Jews and World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering, and Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities/Special Issue: Holocaust and Film. His current book-length project investigates intersections of literature, Jewishness, and memory in postwar French, American, and Soviet cinema, with case studies of Jean-Pierre Melville, Sidney Lumet, Stanley Kubrick, and Aleksandr Askol'dov.
David Kaufmann is Professor of English at George Mason University. His most recent book is Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Work. Once a frequent reviewer for the Forward, he is the author of a number of articles on the Frankfurt School. He is currently working on a manuscript about the New York Poets and their aftermath.
Alan T. Levenson is Schusterman-Josey Professor of Jewish Religious and Intellectual History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Modern Jewish Thinkers: An Introduction (2000), Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: German Defenses of Jews and Judaism (2004), The Story of Joseph: A Jewish Journey of Interpretation (2006), and many essays on German-Jewry, modern Jewish thought, and pedagogy. He has received fellowships from the Tel Aviv University, the American Council of Learned Societies, the German [End Page 154] Academic Exchange Program and the Littauer Foundation. He is currently at work on a popular book, titled The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible and also on a history of Cleveland's Congregation Brith Emeth.
Justin Jaron Lewis is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, where he teaches courses in Judaism, including Talmud, Hasidism, and Kabbalah, and in world religions. His research focuses on story and the religious imagination. He is the author of Imagining Holiness: Classic Hasidic Tales in Modern Times (2009) and coauthor, with Harry Fox, of Many Pious Women (2011), an edition and annotated translation of a sixteenth-century Yiddish text from Renaissance Italy in praise of the women of the Bible and of the author's own time. Currently he is working, with independent scholar Judy Barrett, on a beginner's textbook of the Aramaic language of the Zohar; translating "Thoughts on Death," another Yiddish text from Renaissance Italy; and engaged in the early stages of research projects on the insights of contemporary Hasidic Jews into classic Hasidic tales, and on stories told by Jews in the Hare Krishna movement.
Cynthia Port is Associate Professor of English in Modern and Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature and coeditor of the journal Age, Culture, and the Humanities. Her recent publications include "No Future? Aging, Temporality, History, and Reverse Chronologies" (2012). She is working on a book entitled Dangerous Ages: Modernist Women against a Culture of Youth, which centers on aging and value in the work of British women writers of the 1920s and 1930s. [End Page 155]
