Contributors to This Issue
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Stephen Bertman received his master's degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis and his doctorate in Classics from Columbia University. He is Professor Emeritus of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Canada's University of Windsor and currently adjunct instructor in Humanities at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. Dr. Bertman's books include Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Facts On File/Oxford) and The Eight Pillars of Greek Wisdom (Barnes & Noble).
Petra Fachinger is Associate Professor in the German Department at Queen's University. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of British Columbia (thesis title: "Counter-Discursive Strategies in First-World Migrant Writing"). Fachinger is the author of Rewriting Germany from the Margins: "Other" German Literature of the 1980s and 1990s as well as several articles on transnational literature in English and in German. She is co-editor of the Special Seminar Issue "Poland in Postwar German Literature and Culture" forthcoming in September 2009.
Miriamne Ara Krummel is Associate Professor of medieval literature at the University of Dayton. She has published her work in the journals Exemplaria and Texas Studies in Literature and Language and is completing revisions to her book-length mongraph, Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011). Her second book project is currently entitled "The Medieval, Postcolonial Jew."
Rebecca Margolis is Assistant Professor in the Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program at the University of Ottawa. Her research on Yiddish culture in Canada has appeared in journals such as Canadian Jewish Studies and TTR (Traduction Terminologie Rédaction) as well as The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader, and New Readings of Yiddish Montreal. She is currently researching a book on Canadian Yiddish responses to the Holocaust. [Begin Page vii]
Jeremy Maron is a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He has recently been published in the film studies journal Cineaction and has been writing about Holocaust representation in the cinema since his M.A. thesis. At present, he is working on his dissertation that explores the figure of the Holocaust survivor in Canadian films.
Martina Urban received her M.A. from the Freie Universität Berlin and her Ph.D. in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003. Since 2003 she is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her area of research is modern Jewish intellectual history, with a focus on German-Jewish religious thought. She is currently working on a monograph on the Jewish social philosopher David Koigen. The work will examine Jewish theories of religion and their relation to modern culture. Her book Aesthetics of Renewal: Martin Buber's Early Representation of Hasidism as Kulturkritik was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. [Begin Page viii]
