Carol Hurd Green is an Associate Professor of English at Boston College. Formerly an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, she continues to have responsibility for the Arts and Sciences interdisciplinary programs while directing the Donovan Urban Teaching Scholars in the Lynch School of Education. She currently teaches in the Boston College Capstone program.

Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University, where she teaches in the American Studies Department and Women's and Gender Studies Program. Her major fields of interest include women's history, American Jewish history and culture, the history of education, and history as theater. 

Alice Jardine is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her research interests include 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literature, feminist theory, Women, Gender and Sexuality studies, postmodern and transmodern theories of culture and society, and the American 1950s.

Ruth Perry, Ruth Perry, is the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding director of MIT's Women's Studies Program.  The author of numerous books and articles, she has written on such canonical figures as Pope, Sterne, Richardson, and Austen as well as on contemporary women writers such as Grace Paley and Mary Gordon.

Laura Frader is Professor of History and the Chair of the History Department at Northeastern. She specializes in French social and labor history and European women's and gender history. and has written extensively on these topics. Her publications include Gender and Class in Modern Europe (co-edited with Sonya O. Rose, 1996), and Peasants and Protest: Agricultural Workers, Politics and Unions in the Aude, 1850-1914 (1991),Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference (with Herrick Chapman) and Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model (forthcoming).

Christiane Zehl Romero is Professor of German and Rhetoric and director of the German Program at Tufts University. Her research interests include the twentieth century, women writers, film, and advanced language. She is the author of four books and has worked and published extensively on the German writer Anna Seghers.

Barbara Haber served as Curator of Books at the Radcliffe Institute's Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. She developed a major collection of over 16,000 volumes on cooking and food. She established the Radcliffe Culinary Friends and sponsored lectures and panel discussions by food-world notables.