Thomas Nolden (Yale PhD) has taught comparative literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and German literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently directs the comparative literature program at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.  Among his books are Junge jüdische Literatur (1995) and In Lieu of Memory: Contemporary Jewish Writing in France (2006). He is co-editor of Voices of the Diaspora: Jewish Women Writing in the New Europe (2005) and Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe. A Guide (2007).