Terri Gordon-Zolov is associate professor of comparative literature and program director of gender studies at the New School. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she specialized in modern French, German and British literature. She co-edited the WSQ: Citizenship issue (Spring/Summer 2010) and has published on the cabaret, post-war film, and performance art in the Third Reich. Her translation of Jean Genet’s Elle was adapted for an off-Broadway production in the summer of 2002. Professor Gordon received the New School Distinguished University Teaching Award in 2003 and teaches interdisciplinary courses in the areas of ethics and literature, gender studies, and the aesthetics of the body.
Amy Sodaro is assistant professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She received her PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, with a focus on cultural sociology and memory studies. She holds an MA from the New School and a BA from Tufts University. Her research focuses on memory and memorialization of violence and atrocity. She has published several chapters and articles on memorial museums, including the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the House of Terror in Budapest, the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in Rwanda, and is co-editor of Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).
