Alessandro Carrera is Moores Professor of Italian Studies and World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston, Texas. He has translated the songs and prose of Bob Dylan into Italian, including Chronicles Vol. One and Tarantula, and is the author of La voce di Bob Dylan.
Anne Margaret Daniel teaches at the New School University in New York City and at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. Her essays on literature, music, books, baseball, and culture have appeared in The New York Times, Hot Press, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement.
Freddy Cristóbal Dominguez is a historian of early modern European political and religious history. He is particularly interested in radical Catholic exiles, mystical nuns, historical reenactors, and elderly rock stars. He is currently associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Kathryn Lofton is Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, and Professor of History and Divinity at Yale University, where she also serves as Dean of Humanities. She has written extensively about capitalism, popular culture, and the secular.
Richard Morgan is an international humanitarian worker and has loved Dylan’s songs since the late 1960s.
Eyolf Østrem has a PhD in Musicology from Uppsala University, and has worked at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals. He founded the website DylanChords.com in 1996.
Thomas Palaima is Armstrong Centennial professor of Classics at University of Texas at Austin. A MacArthur fellow and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has long used songs, ancient and modern, as best sources for understanding the miseries and joys of living through this weary world of woe.
John M. Radosta teaches high school English in Milton, Massachusetts. He is the co-author, with Keith Nainby, of Bob Dylan in Performance: Song, Stage, and Screen, as well as chapters in Rock Icons and Politics and Power in Bob Dylan’s Live Performances. John lives in Boston with his wife, son, and rescue dog.
Rebecca Slaman is a freelance writer and editor. She has a BA from Fordham University in English and Classics. Her writing specializes in fan communities on social media, particularly Twitter. She has presented at the University of Tulsa and Florida International University.
