Holli Levitsky holds a Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of California, Irvine. A professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Dr. Levitsky is also the founder and director of the Jewish Studies Program. She was a Schusterman Fellow and held a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Literature at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Levitsky was also a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Her work has been published in such journals as Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal and POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry and her most recent book is titled Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination (2015).
Monica Osborne earned her Ph.D. at Purdue University and was a post-doctoral Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Holocaust and World Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Osborne is a visiting assistant professor of Jewish Studies at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She has written for Tikkun, The New Republic, The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, and The Forward. She has also published scholarly work in journals and books including Religion and Literature, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and Companion to Woody Allen, among others.
