Dr. Emilie Amar-Zifkin is the Flegg Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at McGill University, where she works on medieval history, disability studies, and ghosts. She just finished a year at the University of Toronto, where she was the Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish-Christian Relations, and where she explored sensory studies as a pedagogical framework for the study of medieval Jewish history. She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Yale University, an M.A. in the History of Judaism from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a B.A in from Fordham University in Theology and Stage Management. She is currently working on her first monograph, called Acting out in Ashkenaz, which offers an analysis of Jewish-Christian relations in medieval towns that conceptualizes both the history and the primary sources as texts with their own theatrical components.