Bettina Brandt taught at MIT, Columbia University, and Montclair State before joining the faculty at Pennsylvania State University. She has published on contemporary women writers such as Emine ¿damar and Yoko Tawada. Valentina Glajar is a professor of German at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is the coauthor of several books, including Local History , Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust , and is the cotranslator of M¿ller¿s Traveling on One Leg.