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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Adelman, Jeremy
Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. He is the author, most recently, of Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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).
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 ...
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).
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: ...
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 ...
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 department of history and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, and an honorary ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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).
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...