Neal Orkin is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies in the Lebow College of Business where he has taught courses in labor and employment law and contracts since 1985. He holds a B.S. in EE from Drexel and a J.D. from Temple University Law School. As an arbitrator, Professor Orkin assists as a third party neutral in resolving contractual labor disputes. His areas of specialization include intellectual property law and labor relations.

A member of the Franz Kafka Societies of Prague and America, Neal devotes his spare time to exploring the history and cultures of the Czech lands and relaxing to folk music or opera. His favorite authors are Franz Kafka, Karel Capek, Egon Hostovsky, and Jaroslav Hasek (The Good Soldier Svejk).

Eva Thury is an Associate Professor of English and Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania as well as an M.S. in Information Science from Drexel University. She has recently spent a year in Hungary working on a translation of the work of Sándor Bacskai into English. Bacskai writes literary ethnographies of the lives of Orthodox Jews in the Stalinist period.

As a teacher of literature, Thury's interests are wide-ranging and include mythology, classical literature (the Greeks and Romans) as well as the mystery story, and modernist and postmodernist writing. She has recently become a Senior Editor of The Drexel Online Journal, and is having a lot of fun writing a column for DOJ which is entitled with a small c