Dan Vogel served as Professor of English at Yeshiva University for 25 years and as Dean of Stern College for Women for ten of them. He is the author of many articles on general American and Jewish-American Literature and two books, The Three Masks of American Tragedy and Emma Lazarus. Upon aliyah in 1973, he headed the English department at Michlalah-Jerusalem College until retirement in 1998. He now fulfills his interest in Biblical literature by writing articles and serving as voluntary associate editor of Jewish Bible Quarterly.