Dr. Skonieczny is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University in the International Relations Department. Her research interests include Populism and Foreign Policy, Narratives and US Trade Politics, and the study of national identity and foreign policy discourses. She completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She holds an MA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a BA in Political Science from Humboldt State University.

Ilona Vandergriff is Professor of German (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley). She received her B.A. equivalent in German and English from the Free University of Berlin and her M.A. in German from San Francisco State University. Currently, she is serving as undergraduate (for undergrads whose last names begin with M-Z) adviser. Prof. Vandergriff teaches courses in language, linguistics, applied linguistics, and culture.

I received my PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005, with a focus on Arabic literature. I was born in Alexandria, Egypt where I spent my childhood and adolescent years. After High School, I moved to Cairo to study English and Arabic at al-Alsun, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi's first school of translation in the Arab world, where I received my BA and MA in modern English Literature and Translation.

After her graduate studies in American Literature and Culture, Bérénice Le Marchand moved to the United States and received her Ph.D. in French language and literature with a minor in Second Language Acquisition. She is interested in an interdisciplinary approach for both her teaching and research, but her primary focus of her work is the interrelationship of literature and culture in Medieval and Early Modern France.