Maria Traub holds a doctorate in Modern Language (Middlebury College, Vermont) with a specialization in French and Italian literature. She is currently Associate Professor of French and Italian at Neumann University (Aston, PA). She has published numerous scholarly papers, and is a noted translator. Traub's translation of the correspondence between the Court of Versailles and figures of the American Revolution was recently used in Tim McGrath's Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea (Caliber, 2014). An earlier translation by Traub of Gabriel Marcel's plays was published by St. Augustine's Press (The Invisible Threshold, 2019).