Susan O’Malley was one of the founders of the Radical Teacher in 1975. She taught composition, Shakespeare, Women’s Studies and Liberal Studies at the City University of New York (Kingsborough, Graduate Center) for 37 years. The recipient of Fulbright, NEH, Huntington and Folger Library grants, she has published in early modern women’s studies, Shakespeare, disability, higher education, and civil rights. For the last 10 years she has worked with the NGO Committee on the Status of Women at the UN. She plays cello in the UN Symphony Orchestra.
Now Professor Emerita, Linda Dittmar taught literature and film studies at the University of Massachusetts--Boston for forty years, including two Fulbright grants to India and teaching at Tel Aviv and Paris universities. Her books include From Hanoi to Hollywood; the Vietnam War in American Films and Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism. Having grown up in British Mandates’ Palestine as it became Israel, she is currently working on a memoir, Tracing Homelands, concerning the war of 1948 and the Palestinians’ expulsion, the Nakba. (Website: lindadittmar.com). Linda is a long-time member of Radical Teacher’s Editorial Board.