Alan Rauch is a professor of English. He was born in Montréal, Québec and received his bachelor's degree in biology from McGill University. After completing his master's in zoology, he obtained a master's degree and Ph.D. in literature at Rutgers University.
Dina Schiff Massachi has written and presented numerous academic essays on Baum’s Oz and its various adaptations and has edited the McFarland collection The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation. She also appeared in the “American Oz” episode of PBS’s American Experience.
Ralf Thiede is a professor of Linguistics at UNC Charlotte. He joined UNC Charlotte in 1990, with intermittent brief teaching appointments in Taiwan and Germany. His areas of interest are syntax, history, cognition and linguistics, language acquisition and learning, evolution of language, and English grammar; the language of children's literature; Medieval literature.
