Aimee Pozorski has authored Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (Continuum, 2011), Falling After 9/11: Crisis in American Art and Literature (Bloomsbury, 2014), and AIDS-Trauma and Politics (Lexington, 2019).  She has edited or co-edited volumes on the topics of Philip Roth, American Modernism, and HIV/AIDS representation. With Maren Scheurer, she co-edits the peer-reviewed journal, Philip Roth Studies and has most recently published the Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth (2023). She is Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she also directs the certificate in Racial Justice.
Abstract: 1967's Unclaimed Experience: Philip Roth's Newark and the Legacy of Angela Davis

Cheryl Lynn Greenberg is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History, Emerita, at Trinity College in Connecticut. Newly retired, she taught courses on African American history, the Civil Rights Movement, and twentieth-century social and political history both at Trinity College and the Cheshire Correctional Institution. In addition to numerous articles and anthology chapters, she has written three books: “Or Does It Explode?” Black Harlem in the Great Depression (Oxford University Press, 1991); Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century (Princeton University Press, 2006); and, To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). She co-wrote “A Day I Ain’t Never Seen Before”: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi (University of Georgia Press, 2023) with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker Joe Bateman, and edited A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC (Rutgers University Press, 1998). Her ongoing research focuses on twentieth-century debates over civil liberties and hate speech among civil rights agencies and she is also engaged in issues of race and mass incarceration.
Abstract: Israel/Palestine as Flashpoint

Rachel Gordan is an assistant professor of religion and Jewish studies at the University of Florida, where she is the Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture and Society. Her first book, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2024 and was awarded a 2023 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award by the Association for Jewish Studies. As a scholar of American religion, Gordan researches Judaism and Jewish culture from the early 20th century to the present, with a particular focus on the immediate post-World War II era, middlebrow culture, and American Jewish literary history.
Abstract: “Ain’t no such thing as a white Jew”: Understanding the Jew in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Allison Schachter is a professor of English, Jewish studies, and Russian and East European studies at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. She researches modern Jewish culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in comparative perspectives. Her first book, Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2012), traced the shared diasporic histories of Hebrew and Yiddish modernism. Her second book, Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939 (Northwestern University Press, 2022), a National Jewish Book Award finalist, revises the history of Hebrew and Yiddish modernism by foregrounding women’s voices. She is currently working on a new project on mid-century women intellectuals, which examines how African American and Jewish women writers theorized the postwar moment from feminist and leftist perspectives. She is an avid translator of Yiddish literature. Together with Jordan Finkin, she translated From the Jewish Provinces: The Selected Stories of Fradl Shtok (Northwestern University Press, 2021), which was awarded the 2022 Modern Language Association’s Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies. They are currently working on a translation of selected stories by Rokhl Brokhes.
Abstract: Lorraine Hansberry, Tillie Olsen: Black and Jewish Women Intellectuals, Race, and the Cold War