Authors

Richard Mosse holds an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art and a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths, London. He also holds a first-class BA in English literature from King’s College London and a master’s in cultural studies from the London Consortium. His work has been exhibited at the Akademie der…

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Carolyn L. Kane is Assistant Professor of Professional Communications at Ryerson University in Toronto and the author of Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code (2014), an award-winning book analyzing the role of electronic color in the development of media aesthetics.

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Brian Ulrich, born in 1971 in Northport, New York, has exhibited his photographs extensively since receiving his MFA from Columbia College, Chicago, in 2004, including solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Rhona Hoffman Gallery,…

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Elihu Katz is Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jersualem. His first book (with Paul F. Lazarsfeld) was Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communication; his most recent (with John Peters, Tamar Liebes, and Avril…

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Matt Margini is a freelance writer and the videogames section editor for Public Books. He completed a PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2018, and his essays have appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He currently teaches English at the Ransom Everglades School…

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Alexis Rockman is a New York–based fine artist known for his paintings depicting nature and its intersections with humanity. His art draws from a diverse range of inspirations, including old master painting, science fiction, and above all, natural history. In researching his paintings, Rockman has undertaken extended expeditions into the Amazon Basin, Tasmania, Madagascar, South…

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Vinciane Despret teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liège. Since her first fieldwork in 1991 she has raised the issue of “how science is done with animals.” She served as a commissioner for the exposition “Bêtes et Hommes” (Beasts and Men), held in the Great Hall of La Villette, Paris. Her…

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Michael Cobb is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His most recent books are Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled and God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence. He’s now working on two books: one on goodness, “The Good Book,” and another on statues, ruins, and sexual attachments in the digital age, called…

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S. Lochlann Jain is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and the author of Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (2013).

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Ryan Topper is a PhD candidate in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he studies postcolonial literature and critical theory. He is currently writing a dissertation on the relations between trauma and spirit possession in psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and African literature.

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Alison Bechdel’s most recent book is the graphic memoir Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2012). Last month she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.”

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Abigail Joseph completed her PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2012. She teaches in the Expository Writing Program at NYU and is working on a book about the relationships between homosexuality and material culture in 19th-century England.

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Justin Slaughter is a critic and journalist living in Brooklyn.

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Kate Flint is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California, where she teaches 19th-century and early 20th-century cultural history. Flint has recently completed a book to be called “Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination,” and is currently bringing together old and new essays in the forthcoming “Sensing the Material World 1850–1930.”

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Maggie Cao is an assistant professor of art history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studies the intersections of art with histories of science and economics in the 18th and 19th centuries. She is writing a book on the end of the American landscape tradition.

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