Rebec­ca Schu­man is an author, essay­ist, and trans­la­tor based in St. Louis, MO. Her work appears in Slate, the Atlantic, the Chron­i­cle of High­er Edu­ca­tion, The Hair­pin, and more. She holds a PhD in Ger­man from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia-Irvine where she com­plet­ed a dis­ser­ta­tion on Franz Kaf­ka and Lud­wig Wittgenstein.