Rory Dicker is the coeditor of Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century. A native of New York State, Dicker completed her undergraduate studies in English and French at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned her MA and PhD in English from Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee. After teaching for several years at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, she returned to Nashville, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She teaches courses in English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University.