Sonia Gollance is a PhD candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Supported by an AJS Completion Fellowship and a Center for Jewish History Graduate Research Fellowship, she is currently completing a dissertation on Jewish mixed-sex dancing in German and Yiddish literature. She has given public presentations on Yiddish literature and culture in the United States and internationally, including at KlezKanada and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.