Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California and, during the 2020-2021 academic year, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Literature at UCSD. She is the author of Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading (Fordham University Press, 2020), Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern University Press, 2014, winner of the 2015 Award for Best Book, Latin American Jewish Studies Association)—translated into Spanish and published in 2017 by Ediciones La Cebra in Buenos Aires—and The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008), as well as the editor of The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism (Fordham University Press, 2017) and The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

The product of a 1950s experiment in interdenominational Jewish youth group unity, Larry Yudelson tries to expand and mutate the Jewish community as editorial director of Ben Yehuda Press.