Mikhail Krutikov studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he received his Ph.D. He is a lecturer in Modern Yiddish Literature at the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies and also a lecturer in Yiddish Literature at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is co-editor of the collection of papers Yiddish in the Contemporary World (Oxford: Legenda, 1999). Krutikov's book on Yiddish fiction between 1905 and 1914 is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.