Martha Klironomos, Professor of English and Modern Greek Studies, is the Director of the Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, at San Francisco State University where she has been teaching courses in Modern Greek language and literature as well as Comparative and English literature courses since 1996.  She previously held an appointment as an Assistant Professor in Modern Greek literature at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, from 1994-1996 and was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the Seferis Chair at Harvard University from 1993-1994. She received her PhD in 1993 from The Ohio State University.

Her research areas include the poetry of the two Nobel Prize-winning authors George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis, British and American 20th century travel writing to Greece and contemporary Greek American literature.  She is working on a book-length study on memory and historicism in the work of George Seferis and his generation of writers.

Currently, she is the Associate Editor of the Arts and Humanities of the 'Journal of Modern Greek Studies,' a refereed interdisciplinary journal published by Johns Hopkins Press.  She is also serving as Secretary of the Modern Greek Studies Association, the largest professional organization of faculty, graduate students and researchers in Modern Greek Studies in the U.S. and Canada.

Jesse Torgerson is an adjunct faculty member, currently working on his PhD in Byzantine History across the bay at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his M.A. in 2006.  He is working on two research projects: evidence for cultural exchange in Asia Minor between the  Byzantines, the Ottomans, and other Turkish principates in the 13th-14th centuries; and the development of a Christian framework for history from Late Antiquity into the 9th centuries in both Byzantium and the Carolingian West.