Authors

Cacioppo, Alex

Alex Cacioppo is an independent researcher, writer, and reporter who has worked for VICE Media, CBS News, and other outlets. His interests include geopolitics, environmental issues, the socially ...

Cadava, Geraldo

Geraldo Cadava is a professor of history and Latina and Latino studies at Northwestern University. Before becoming coeditor in chief of Public Books, he served as an editor of the Borderlands ...
Kathryn Cai

Cai, Kathryn

Kathryn Cai is a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow and Public Goods Policy Strategist at the Partnership for Working Families. In 2019 she received her PhD in English from the University of California, Los ...

Calamia, Joe

Joe Calamia is Senior Editor for Science and Technology at Yale University Press. He holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Cornell University and graduate degrees in science writing and ...

Calder, Alex

Alex Calder teaches New Zealand and American literature at the University of Auckland. His most recent books are The Settler’s Plot (Auckland University Press, 2011) and an edition of Alexander ...
Doyle Calhoun

Calhoun, Doyle

Doyle Calhoun is a PhD candidate in French at Yale University, where his work focuses on histories of colonizing violence and resistance in African and Caribbean literatures and cinema. His ...
Craig Calhoun

Calhoun, Craig

Craig Calhoun is president of the Berggruen Institute. He was previously director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and before that president of the Social Science Research ...
Nicole Callahan

Callahan, Nicole

Nicole Callahan is the TOMS Core Faculty Fellow in Contemporary Civilization and a Core Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her research focuses ...

Campbell, Stephen J.

Stephen J. Campbell is an art historian and occasional curator who has lived in Baltimore on and off since 1987. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University since 2002.
Rosa Campbell

Campbell, Rosa

Rosa Campbell is completing a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge. Her work considers women’s liberation in global context. She writes on a range of platforms both in and beyond the ...

Campbell, Jessica

Jessica Campbell is the author of several articles on the intersection of the fairy tale and the novel in the Victorian period. She received her doctorate from the University of Washington in ...

Campion, Peter

Peter Campion is the author of three collections of poetry and, most recently, of the essay collection Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry (University of Chicago Press, 2019). A ...

Çandar, Başak

Başak Çandar is a comparatist who works on contemporary Turkish literature, translation studies, and theories and pedagogies of world literature. She is currently an Associate Professor in the ...
Matteo Cantarello

Cantarello, Matteo

Matteo Cantarello teaches Mexican literature, cinema, and culture at the College of William and Mary. His work analyzes fictional representations of organized crime to emphasize the sociocultural ...
James Cantres

Cantres, James

James Cantres is an assistant professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Blackening Britain: ...

Cao, Maggie

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 ...
Katherine Capshaw

Capshaw, Katharine

Katharine Capshaw is professor of English and affiliate in Africana studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the coeditor of Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s ...

Carey, Lisa

Lisa Carey’s critically acclaimed novels include The Mermaids Singing, In the Country of the Young, Love in the Asylum, which won a Massachusetts Book Award, and Every Visible Thing, which won a ...
Glenda Carpio

Carpio, Glenda R.

Glenda R. Carpio is Professor of African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University. She is the author of Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (2008) and a ...

Carruth, Allison

Allison Carruth is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Institute of Society and Genetics at UCLA, where she is also affiliated with the Institute of the Environment and ...
Sean Carswell

Carswell, Sean

Sean Carswell is the author of eight books, including the crime novel Dead Extra, forthcoming from Prospect Park in 2019, and the monograph Occupy Pynchon (University of Georgia Press, 2017). He is ...

Carter , Sam

Sam Carter is a PhD candidate in Romance Studies at Cornell and an editor at Asymptote, an international journal of translation. His work has also appeared online at the New Republic.
James Carter

Carter, James

James Carter is a professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University and the author of Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai (Norton, 2020). (Author photograph by Bradley Lau / ICDA)
Julieta Casas

Casas, Julieta

Julieta Casas is a PhD candidate in political science at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include comparative state formation, the development of state capacities, and ...
Brenna M. Casey

Casey, Brenna M.

Brenna M. Casey is a visiting assistant professor of English at Wake Forest University. She specializes in American literature and visual culture. Her current book project tracks the surveillance of ...

Cash, Mackenzie

Mackenzie Cash is an editorial and publicity assistant at Public Books. She can be found on Twitter @mackacash.
D. J. Cashmere

Cashmere, D. J.

D. J. Cashmere served as a classroom teacher in Chicago for eight years before becoming a John K. Martin Fellow at NYU’s Carter Journalism Institute. His work has been published in The Village Voice ...

Chaganti, Seeta

Seeta Chaganti is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press ...
Manu Samriti Chander

Chander, Manu Samriti

Manu Samriti Chander is associate professor of English at Rutgers University–Newark and the author of Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century (Bucknell University ...

Charmes, Éric

Éric Charmes is a research director (EVS-RIVES, University of Lyon, ENTPE). A specialist in urban studies and urbanism, he has worked extensively on street uses, public spaces, gated communities, and ...

Chatelain, Marcia

Marcia Chatelain is the author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright, 2020).
Bonnie Chau

Chau, Bonnie

Bonnie Chau is the author of the short story collection All Roads Lead to Blood (2040 Books, 2018). She earned her MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University, where she has also ...

Chaudhuri, Supriya

Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She reads and reviews contemporary fiction, and translates extensively.

Cheng, Anne Anlin

Anne Anlin Cheng is a professor of English and African American studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Oxford ...

Chernock, Arianne

Arianne Chernock is an associate professor of British history at Boston University, where she specializes in gender, culture, politics and the modern monarchy. Her book Men and the Making of Modern ...

Cheterian, Vicken

Vicken Cheterian is lecturer in history and international relations at the University of Geneva, and Webster University, Geneva. He is the author of War and Peace in the Caucasus, Russia’s Troubled ...

Cheyne, Ria

Ria Cheyne is a Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. Her research focuses on representations of disability in contemporary literature and culture, particularly genre fiction. She runs the ...

Chiang, Mark

Mark Chiang is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and ...

Chico, Tita

Tita Chico is Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies at the University of Maryland.

Chihaya, Sarah

Sarah Chihaya is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Princeton University, where she teaches courses in 20th- and 21st-century fiction and film. She is the editor of Contemporaries ...
Clayton Childress

Childress, Clayton

Clayton Childress is an associate professor in the department of sociology at University of Toronto. He is the author of Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel (Princeton ...

Chin, Elleanor

Elleanor Chin was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains to one Appalachian and one immigrant parent, who then raised her in the Midwest. She has lived in all three of the states that begin with “O.” She ...
Merlin Chowkwanyun

Chowkwanyun, Merlin

Merlin Chowkwanyun is a historian of public health and the Donald Gemson Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He just finished ...

Christoff, Alicia

Alicia Christoff is an assistant professor of English at Amherst College, where she teaches courses on Victorian literature, critical theory, and contemporary fiction and creative nonfiction. She is ...

Chua, Jilene

Jilene Chua is a doctoral candidate in history at Johns Hopkins University. She is writing a dissertation on US colonial law and the Chinese in the Philippines.
Emma Chubb

Chubb, Emma

Emma Chubb is the inaugural Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smith College Museum of Art. Her essays on the representation of migration in contemporary art have appeared in ...

Chung, Maya

Maya Chung is on the editorial staff at the New York Review of Books.

Churchill, Katherine

Katherine Churchill is a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Virginia, where she studies late medieval English and French literature. Her writing has appeared in Oxford ...

Chute, Hillary

Hillary Chute is distinguished professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. She is the author or editor of six books on comics, including, most recently, Why Comics? From ...

Ciolkowski, Laura

Laura Ciolkowski is Associate Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She ...

Clair, Matthew

Matthew Clair is Assistant Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Law at Stanford University. His scholarship broadly examines how cultural meanings within organizations and institutions reflect ...

Claire Squires, Beth Driscoll and

Beth Driscoll is Associate Professor in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Claire Squires is Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling ...

Clapp, Jeffrey

Jeffrey Clapp works in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Clark, Anna E.

Anna E. Clark is an assistant professor of English at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, where she researches and teaches courses on Victorian literature and the history of the novel. Her essays and ...

Clarke, Rosie

Rosie Clarke is a London-based writer, critic, and editor, and works for the translation journal Asymptote. Her work has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Music ...

Clary, Grayson

Grayson Clary lives and works in Washington, DC.

Claybaugh, Amanda

Amanda Claybaugh is Professor of English at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on the Anglo-American novel from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Cleary, Joe

Joe Cleary is Professor of English at the Maynooth University, Ireland. His books include Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (2002) ...

Cleary, Sean Alan

Sean Alan Cleary is a writer and educator from Cambridge, Massachusetts. A graduate of the University of Montana’s MFA in fiction, he received an MA in English from the Bread Loaf School in 2018. You ...

Clément, Carine

Carine Clément is a research professor at the Andrew Gagarin Center for the Study of Civil Society and Human Rights and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Saint Petersburg State University.

Cloutier, Jean-Christophe

Jean-Christophe Cloutier is a PhD candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where he also teaches comics as literature. His dissertation explores the reciprocity between ...
Joshua Clover

Clover, Joshua

Joshua Clover is the author of six books, including poetry, cultural history, and political theory; he’s been translated into 10 languages. His most recent book is Riot.Strike.Riot: The New Era of ...

Clutario, Genevieve

Genevieve Clutario is Associate Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. Her research and teaching focus on Asian American narratives in global perspectives; modern empire; and the ...

Cobb, Michael

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 ...

Coen, Deborah R.

Deborah R. Coen is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches the history of science and modern European history. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of ...

Coetzee, J. M.

J. M. Coetzee was born in South Africa in 1940 and educated in South Africa and the United States. He has published 16 works of fiction, as well as criticism and translations. Among awards he has won ...

Cohen, Margaret

Margaret Cohen teaches literature at Stanford University and writes about the blue humanities, including in her award-winning The Novel and the Sea (Princeton University Press, 2010).
B. R. Cohen

Cohen, B. R.

B. R. Cohen is an associate professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He is the author, most recently, of Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food (2019) ...

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at the George Washington University. His most recent book is Stone: An Ecology of the ...

Cohen, Joshua C. A.

Joshua C. A. Cohen is a doctoral student in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University.

Cohen, Daniel Aldana

Daniel Aldana Cohen is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Carbon Collaborative, or (SC)2. His writing on cities and climate ...

Cohen, Deborah

Deborah Cohen is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Family Secrets (2013). She can be reached at deborah ...

Cohen, Kris

Kris Cohen is an associate professor of art and humanities at Reed College. He works on the relationship between art, economy, and media technologies, focusing especially on the aesthetics of ...

Cohen, Lawrence

Lawrence Cohen is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His work includes writing on organ transplantation across borders (“Migrant Supplementarity,” 2011) and on ...

Colbert, Soyica Diggs

Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University. She is also an associate director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company ...
Sarah Cole

Cole, Sarah

Sarah Cole is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Dean of Humanities at Columbia University. A specialist in literary modernism, she is the co-founder of the NYNJ Modernism ...

Colesworthy, Rebecca

Rebecca Colesworthy is a senior acquisitions editor at SUNY Press, where she oversees lists in education, literary studies, gender and queer studies, Latin American and Latinx studies, and Indigenous ...

Collins, Corrine

Corrine Collins is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her research examines representations of interracial intimacy in 20th- and 21st-century literature and ...

Collinsworth, E. T.

E. T. Collinsworth immigrated from Tennessee, then the Midwest, to Arizona for the 1972 fall roundup of a cattle ranch, its south fence contiguous with the international border with Mexico. For 30 ...
Aaron Colton

Colton, Aaron

Aaron Colton is a lecturer in writing studies and the assistant director of the TWP Writing Studio at Duke University. His current research centers on representations of writer’s block in recent US ...
Jean Comaroff

Comaroff, Jean

Jean Comaroff is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University. Her publications include Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance ...

Comfort, Megan

Megan Comfort is the author of Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison, published by the University of Chicago Press. She is a Senior Research Scientist in the Division of ...

Conekin, Becky E.

Becky E. Conekin teaches modern European history at Yale. Before moving to Yale in 2009, she taught for over a decade at the London College of Fashion. Her book on the model-turned-photographer Lee ...

Connelly, John

John Connelly is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education ...
N. D. B. Connolly

Connolly, N. D. B.

N. D. B. Connolly is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University and author of the award-winning book A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking ...

Cook-Martín, David

David Cook-Martín is a professor of sociology at New York University Abu Dhabi’s Social Research and Public Policy program. His book Scramble for Citizens: Dual Nationality and State Competition for ...

Cooper, Frederick

Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University and author most recently of Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 (2014), Africa in the ...

Corinealdi, Kaysha

Kaysha Corinealdi is an assistant professor of history at Emerson College. Her research and teaching interests include 20th-century histories of empire, migration, feminism, and Afro-diasporic ...

Cornish, Matt

Matt Cornish is assistant professor of theater history at Ohio University. His first book, on German theater after 1989, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.
Franco Laguna-Correa

Correa, Franco Laguna

Franco Laguna Correa (PhD, MFA) has been invited to talk about his research and literary work at various institutions, including Emory University, the University of California, Texas State ...
Sasha Costanza-Chock

Costanza-Chock, Sasha

Sasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar, activist, designer, and media-maker, and currently associate professor of Civic Media at MIT. Their work focuses on networked ...

Cotlier, Emily

Emily Cotlier is a writer and technical communicator living just outside of Wellington, New Zealand. For three years she wrote the sequential fiction blog . She currently blogs at about style ...
Eleanor Courtemanche

Courtemanche, Eleanor

Eleanor Courtemanche teaches Victorian literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She writes about fictions of capitalism, including in the book The “Invisible Hand” and British ...
Peter Coviello

Coviello, Peter

Peter Coviello is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he specializes in American literature and queer studies. His most recent book, Long Players: A Love Story in ...

Cowden, Margaux

Margaux Cowden directs and teaches in the Cutler Scholars Program at Ohio University. She is currently working on a book about how modernist literature revises scientific narratives, generating queer ...
Jefferson Cowie

Cowie, Jefferson

Jefferson Cowie is the author of Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (2010) and The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (2016). He holds the ...

Cox, Whitney

Whitney Cox is Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches Sanskrit, among other things. With any luck, his two books, on the politics of the South Indian Chola dynasty and on ...

Crain, Caleb

Caleb Crain is the author of the novel Overthrow, out now from Viking.

Crain, Patricia

Patricia Crain is Associate Professor of English at New York University and the author of The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter (2000).
Emma Shaw Crane

Crane, Emma Shaw

Emma Shaw Crane is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, where she is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Department of ...

Crawford, Julie

Julie Crawford is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Marvelous Protestantism (2005) and Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and ...

Crawford, Nyron

Nyron N. Crawford is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty Affiliate in the Behavioral Foundations Lab, Institute for Survey Research, and the Center for Regional Politics at Temple ...

Creekmur, Corey

Corey Creekmur is an associate professor in both the Department of English and the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. He is currently the secretary of the ...

Crewe, Jennifer

Jennifer Crewe is associate provost and director of Columbia University Press, where she previously served as editorial director and as humanities editor. She is a past president of the Association ...

Cross, Katherine

Katherine Cross is a Ph.D. student in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a widely published cultural critic whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Time, Bitch Magazine, and numerous other ...

Cruz, Teddy

Teddy Cruz is an architectural designer and professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the San Diego–Tijuana border as a site of political and ...
Denise Cruz

Cruz, Denise

Denise Cruz is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She teaches and writes about race, gender, and sexuality in transnational cultures, with special ...

Cuéllar, Jorge E.

Jorge E. Cuéllar is a Salvadoran-born and Los Angeles-raised scholar of Central America. He is Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College where he ...

Cullina, Ashley

Ashley Cullina is originally from Virginia. She recently graduated from the Dual BA Program between Trinity College Dublin and Columbia University and now works in book production.

Cummins, Megan

Megan Cummins is the managing editor of Public Books. She is the author of the book If the Body Allows It, which was awarded the 2019 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and longlisted for the ...
Spencer Cunningham

Cunningham, Spencer

Spencer Cunningham is a writer and journalist who lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Curley, Andrew

Andrew Curley is a member of the Navajo Nation and assistant professor in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the everyday ...

Curry, Arwen

Arwen Curry’s Hugo-nominated documentary Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin has screened around the world and aired on PBS American Masters. Her 2023 project The Journey That Matters includes six additional ...

Cusk, Rachel

Rachel Cusk published her first novel, Saving Agnès, for which she received the Whitebread first novel award, in 1993. In 2003, she was among Granta’s twenty “Best of Young British Novelists.” Her ...

Cutler, John Alba

John Alba Cutler is associate professor of English and Latina and Latino Studies at Northwestern University, where his work focuses on US Latinx literature and culture. He is the author of Ends of ...

Cvetkovich, Ann

Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Director of LGBTQ Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author ...