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ABOUT JULIA PANKO

Julia Panko is an Associate Professor of English at Weber State University, where she directs the Literature and Textual Studies program. She is the author of Out of Print: Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020).

ABOUT JIM KUHN

Jim Kuhn is Associate Director for the Library Division and Hobby Foundation Librarian at the Ransom Center. He has master's degrees in philosophy and library science, is the co-author of Academic Freedom: A Guide to the Literature (Greenwood Press, 2000), and has written about special collections librarianship and digital humanities. Jim also volunteers with the campus Victims Advocate Network (VAN), and serves on the board of Texas After Violence Project, an Austin-based community archive and documentary project cultivating deeper understandings of the impacts of state-sanctioned violence on individuals, families, and communities.

ABOUT AMY VIDOR
Amy Vidor recently completed her Engaged Scholar Initiative postdoctoral fellowship with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Her dissertation (2019), “Testifying to Auschwitz and Algeria,” analyzed writing by Germaine Tillion, Charlotte Delbo, and Marguerite Duras about the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and Algerian War.

ABOUT CAROLINE BARTA
Caroline Barta recently completed her dissertation, “Julia’s Cookbook Readers: 1948-1963,” which discovers and celebrates the cookbook readers behind Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle. Her work was supported by a dissertation fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center in 2019.