Martin Elsky is Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative Literature, and Global Early Modern Studies at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. He has served as Articles Editor of Renaissance Quarterly, as Coordinator of the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program (now the Global Early Modern Studies Program) at the CUNY Graduate Center, and as Director and Counselor on the Board of the Renaissance Society of America. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has published on George Herbert, John Donne, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, and John Milton, and on topics such as seventeenth-century devotional poetry, Renaissance Humanist language theory, Early Modern print culture, the history of science, and the struggle between local and national culture in the seventeenth-century English country house poem.  His current interest centers around the work of Erich Auerbach, the German reception and memorialization of Dante in the wake of World War I, typological criticism in the US and Germany during and after World War II, and the migration of texts across cultural and religious lines. He has translated the work of Erich Auerbach, including a selection of his letters (with Robert Stein and Martin Vialon). He has developed courses on Early Modern trans-Atlantic literature and art; Renaissance architecture and literature; the debate about historical philology; memory and philology in Erich Auerbach and Walter Benjamin; and memory in the modern English, German, and European novel. He has organized many colloquia on cross-disciplinary Early Modern topics, and, more recently, on the work and career of Erich Auerbach. He is currently co-organizer of a conference on “Critical Theory, Jewishness, and Antisemitism,” to be held at the CUNY Graduate Center.