Alli­son Schachter is an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of Jew­ish stud­ies, Eng­lish, and Russ­ian and East Euro­pean stud­ies and the chair of the Depart­ment of Jew­ish Stud­ies at Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty. She is the author of Dias­poric Mod­ernisms: Hebrew and Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture in the Twen­ti­eth Century.