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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
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, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University ...
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 ...
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 ...
Anjaria, Ulka
Ulka Anjaria is an associate professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (2012) and editor ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 (2004), The Work of Literature (2015), and, as coeditor ...
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 ...
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 ...
