Madeleine Cohen received her PhD in Comparative Literature with a designated emphasis in Jewish Studies in 2016. Her dissertation, entitled “Here and Now: The Modernist Poetics ofDo’ikayt,” explores connections between the representation of place in modernist Yiddish literature and revolutionary, anti-territorialist politics in the interwar period. She is currently the Preceptor in Yiddish at Harvard University and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Her aliases include Mandy and Mindl.