Authors

Abatiell, Patrick

Patrick Abatiell is a PhD candidate in English at New York University. He has written about restaurant labor for The Awl and for Public Books, where he is a section editor. He works in a restaurant.
Carl Abbott

Abbott, Carl

Carl Abbott is professor emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. He is the author of several books on American cities and on science fiction, most recently Imagining ...
George Abraham

Abraham, George

George Abraham (they/he) is a Palestinian american poet from Jacksonville, Florida. They are the author of Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) and the specimen’s apology (Sibling Rivalry, 2019). He is a ...

Abrego, Leisy

Leisy Abrego is professor in Chicana/o and Central American studies at UCLA. An immigrant from El Salvador, she has been accompanying the immigrant-rights movement for over 20 years. She teaches and ...

Abu-Lughod, Lila

Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, where she teaches anthropology and gender studies. She is the author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving ...

Abu-Zeid, Kareem James

Kareem James Abu-Zeid is working on his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on modern Arabic poetry. He also works as a translator of Arabic novels ...
Bruce Ackerman

Ackerman, Bruce

Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of 18 books, including The Decline and Fall of the American Republic. He is a member of the American Law ...
Begüm Adalet

Adalet, Begüm

Begüm Adalet is a political theorist with interests in anticolonial thought, transnationalism, the Cold War, and the built environment. She is an assistant professor of government at Cornell ...
Rachel Adams

Adams, Rachel

Rachel Adams is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery (Yale University ...
James Adams

Adams, James

James Adams is a PhD candidate in the University of California–Irvine’s department of anthropology. His research examines the complex of socionatural systems, temporalities, and scales of activity ...

Adelman, Jeremy

Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. His forthcoming book is Earth Hunger: Global Integration and the Need for ...
Nick Admussen

Admussen, Nick

Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Asian studies at Cornell University.
Kim Adrian

Adrian, Kim

Kim Adrian’s memoir, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2018 as part of their American Lives Series (edited by Tobias Wolff). She is the ...

Afinogenov, Gregory

Gregory Afinogenov teaches Russian history at Georgetown University. He is the author, most recently, of Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power (Harvard ...

Agathocleous, Tanya

Tanya Agathocleous is an associate professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination (2011) and is working on a book about disaffection ...
Shazeda Ahmed

Ahmed, Shazeda

Shazeda Ahmed is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at the AI Now Institute. Her research focuses on social inequalities that arise from state-firm ...

Al Dahdah, Marine

Marine Al Dahdah is a sociologist and a CNRS fellow at Center for the Study of Social Movements. Her research focuses on health policies in Asia and Africa and, more particularly, on digital health ...

al-Qattan, Najwa

Najwa al-Qattan is an associate professor of Middle Eastern history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Her areas of research include: the Jews and Christians of the Ottoman Empire, the ...

Alexander , Leslie M.

Leslie M. Alexander is the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University, where she specializes in early African American and African Diaspora history. She is the author of ...

Alexander, Neta

Neta Alexander is an assistant professor of film and media at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York. Her work focuses on science and technology studies and digital culture, film, and media. She ...
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Alexandre, Sandy

Sandy Alexandre is an associate professor of American literature at MIT. She is author of The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching (2012).

Alexis, Yveline

Yveline Alexis is a historian of Haitian and Caribbean Studies who founded the historical consultant business: . She is the author of the award-winning book Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of ...

Alison, Jane

In addition to Nine Island, recently published by Catapult, Jane Alison is the author of a memoir, The Sisters Antipodes, and three novels—The Love-Artist, The Marriage of the Sea, and Natives and ...

Alizadeh, Ali

Ali Alizadeh is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Monash University, Melbourne, where he is Director of the Centre for Australian and Postcolonial Writing. He is the author of Ashes in the Air (2011) ...

Allan, Ed

Ed Allan is long dead.

Allen, Ben

Ben Allen is a PhD candidate in Stanford University’s interdisciplinary Modern Thought and Literature program, where he studies gender and the history of software. His current work focuses on the ...

Allen, Jafari Sinclaire

Jafari S. Allen, Inaugural Co-Director of the University of Miami Center for Global Black Studies, is the author of There’s a disco ball between us: a theory of Black gay life;  ¡Venceremos?: The ...

Allington, Patrick

Patrick Allington is a writer, editor and researcher. His books are the novels Rise & Shine and Figurehead and the textbook Making the Grade. His essays, short fiction and criticism have appeared ...
Sarah Allison

Allison, Sarah

Sarah Allison is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans and the author of Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).
Rene Almeling

Almeling, Rene

Rene Almeling is a sociologist at Yale University and the author of GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020).

Alpert, Avi

Avi Alpert is a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University. He is currently at work on a book project with the working title ...

Alwan, Mohammed Hasan

The novelist Mohammed Hasan Alwan’s most recent novel, Al-Qundus (The Beaver, 2011; recently translated from Arabic into French by by Stéphanie Dujols as Le Castor), is at once an unsparing account ...

Alworth, David J.

David J. Alworth is Assistant Professor of English and of History and Literature at Harvard University, where he teaches modern and contemporary American literature. His first book, Site Reading: ...
S. M. Amadae

Amadae, S. M.

S. M. Amadae is currently a university lecturer in politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a Berggruen Fellow working as a research affiliate at the Center for the Advanced Study of the ...

Amaya, Hector

Hector Amaya is Professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia. He is currently finishing a project on the transformations to public culture in Mexico due to drug violence. His last book is ...

Amend, Allison

Allison Amend is the author of A Nearly Perfect Copy, Stations West, Things That Pass for Love, and, just this week from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Books, Enchanted Islands, inspired by the midcentury ...

Amezcua, Mike

Mike Amezcua is assistant professor of history at Georgetown University. He teaches and publishes on US and Latinx history, urban history, racial inequality, politics, and immigration. He is the ...

Anand, B. M.

B. M. Anand was an Indian artist and illustrator.

Anderson, Warwick

Warwick Anderson, MD, PhD, is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance, and Ethics in the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, and an honorary professor in the School of Population ...

Anderson, Michelle Wilde

Michelle Wilde Anderson is a professor of property, local government, and environmental justice at Stanford Law School. She is currently writing a book about the fight to save basic public services ...
Katherine Anderson

Anderson, Katherine J.

Katherine J. Anderson is an assistant professor of English at Western Washington University, where she teaches Victorian literature and culture. She is currently at work on a book entitled “Twisted ...

Angelo, Hillary

Hillary Angelo is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work has been featured in leading social science and geography journals, including Theory and ...
Ulka Anjaria

Anjaria, Ulka

Ulka Anjaria is professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (Cambridge University Press ...

Annavarapu, Sneha

Dr. Sneha Annavarapu is an assistant professor of urban studies at Yale-NUS College. She is an ethnographer by training, her research interests centering on urbanization, governance, class relations ...

Anson, Patrick

Patrick Anson is a PhD candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He studies 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone fiction and is writing a part-ethnographic, part-literary ...

Appel, Hannah

Hannah Appel is associate professor of anthropology at UCLA. She is also associate director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, where she leads the Future of Finance research ...

Apter, Emily

Emily Apter is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University. Her book Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability is forthcoming from Verso in the spring ...

Araos, Malcolm

Malcolm Araos is a PhD student in sociology at New York University and a fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge. His research has appeared in Environmental Science & Policy and Nature ...
Ana Lucia Araujo

Araujo, Ana Lucia

Ana Lucia Araujo is a historian and professor of history at Howard University in Washington, DC. Her recent single-authored books include Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury ...
Jacquelyn Ardam

Ardam, Jacquelyn

Jacquelyn Ardam is a visiting assistant professor in English at Colby College. Her work has been published in venues such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Toast, Jacket2, Modernism/modernity ...
Diego Arispe-Bazán

Arispe-Bazán, Diego

Diego Arispe-Bazán is a PhD candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research centers on understandings in contemporary Spain and Peru of  the period of ...

Arjomand, Minou

Minou Arjomand is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment (Columbia ...

Arkebauer, Sarah

Sarah Arkebauer is an editorial intern at Public Books and a PhD candidate in the English and Comparative Literature department at Columbia University.
Jackson Arn

Arn, Jackson

Jackson Arn’s writing has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Point, and various other publications. Read his work at jacksonarn.com.

Arnould, Jacques

Jacques Arnould, historian and theologist, is the project director for ethical issues at the National Center for Space Studies (CNES). His interest lies in the relationship between sciences ...

Aronczyk, Melissa

Melissa Aronczyk is an assistant professor of media and politics at Rutgers University. She is the author of Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity (2013).

Arsan, Andrew

Andrew Arsan is a reader in Arab and Mediterranean history at the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is Lebanon: A Country in Fragments (2018). He is currently working on two projects: a ...
Francesco Asano

Asano, Francesco Yugiro

Francesco Yugiro Asano is a PhD student in the department of social and cultural analysis at New York University. He is interested in questions of race, empire, and nature, particularly in the ...

Asaro, Peter

Peter Asaro is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Programs for the School of Media Studies at the New School for Public Engagement, and the cofounder and cochair of the International ...
Ivan Ascher

Ascher, Ivan

Ivan Ascher is an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction, published by Zone in ...

Asher-Schapiro, Avi

Avi Asher-Schapiro is a graduate student at NYU and a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn. He was a Research Associate at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown ...

Asif, Manan Ahmed

Manan Ahmed Asif is a historian of South Asia who works on space, narratives and the city. He is working on, among other things, a conquest narrative from the thirteenth century Uch Sharif. He walks ...

Attridge, Derek

Derek Attridge’s books range from accounts of poetic form to studies of James Joyce. They include J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading (University of Chicago Press, 2004), The Work of Literature ...

Atwood, Amanda

Amanda Atwood has lived in Harare since 1999. She is the content manager at Kubatana, an organization that shares civic and human rights information with Zimbabweans.

Auyero, Javier

Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. His most recent book, Patients of the State, was recently published by Duke ...
Ellis Avery

Avery, Ellis

Ellis Avery (1972–2019) was the author of two award-winning novels published by Riverhead Books: The Last Nude (2012) and The Teahouse Fire (2007). She taught fiction writing at Columbia University ...
Emmmanuelle Avril

Avril, Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle Avril is professor of contemporary British politics and society at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Her main line of research is intraparty democracy, organizational change, and ...

Ayala Camarillo, Salvador I.

Salvador I. Ayala Camarillo is currently finishing his third year as an English Literature PhD student at Rutgers University. Prior to that, he earned his BA and MA at California State University ...
Jackson Ayres

Ayres, Jackson

Jackson Ayres is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, Journal of Modern ...