Erin Twohig received her B.A. from Middlebury College in 2007 and her M.A. from New York University in 2009. A former student of the Middlebury College Arabic School, she worked for the program as a technical assistant and as a graduate intern before going on to teach beginning Arabic in the program in 2009. She currently is in her second year as a Ph.D. student in French and comparative literature at Columbia University.