Allison Schachter is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Chair of the Jewish Studies Department at Vanderbilt. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. She is the author of Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2013). She just completed a second manuscript entitled Experiments in Prose: Women Writing Jewish Modernity. She is also a translator from the Yiddish and is currently working on Fradel Shtok’s short fiction.