La Raja, Raymond
Raymond La Raja is associate dean at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is coauthor of Hometown ...
Lackey, Ryan
Ryan Lackey is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, where his studies include contemporary fiction, masculinity, and religion. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review ...
Lafarge, Daisy
Daisy Lafarge lives in Glasgow. She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta, 2021) and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta, 2020), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Lovebug ...
LaFlamme, Marcel
Marcel LaFlamme is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University in Houston. He is currently conducting fieldwork on unmanned aircraft testing and training in and around ...
LaFleur, Greta
Greta LaFleur is associate professor of American studies at Yale University and the author of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Her writing has ...
Lambert, Josh
Josh Lambert is the Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, and director of the Jewish Studies Program, at Wellesley College. His books include Unclean Lips: ...
Lamela, Brais
Brais Lamela lives between Galicia and New York. He is currently completing a PhD at Yale University, where he works on comparative literature, cultural history, and critical thought. His current ...
Lamont, Michèle
Michèle Lamont is professor of sociology and African American studies at Harvard; director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and codirector, Successful Societies Program, Canadian ...
Landsman, Anne
Anne Landsman is the award-winning author of the novels The Rowing Lesson and The Devil’s Chimney. She has written for the Guardian, the Believer, and the Washington Post, among many other ...
Landsverk, Kaveh
Kaveh Landsverk is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His research concerns African diaspora literatures, incarceration, and speculative fiction.
Larson, Jordan
Jordan Larson is a writer in New York.
Lau, Travis Chi Wing
Travis Chi Wing Lau received his PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania and is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in 18th- and 19th-century ...
Laurent, Manon
Manon Laurent is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Université de Paris and in political science at Concordia University, in Montreal. Her work explores state-society relations in urban China. Her ...
Law, Jules
Jules Law is Professor of English Literature at Northwestern University. He has written widely on Victorian literature, James Joyce, and literary theory. He is the recipient of numerous teaching and ...
Lawlor, Shannon
Shannon Lawlor received her PhD from University College Dublin in 2020. Her thesis examined the relationship between videogame self-reflexivity and digital technology. She has previously written on ...
Lawrence, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Lawrence teaches modern American and Latin American literature and culture at Rutgers University. He also serves as the director of research for the Pittsfield-based public humanities project ...
Lawrie, Paul
Paul Lawrie is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He is the author of “‘Salvaging the Negro’: Vocational Rehabilitation and African American Veterans, 1917–1924,” ...
Lazo, Claudia Sosa
Claudia Sosa Lazo grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, and has since lived in New York, Chiang Mai, Yangon, and New Haven. She believes in the power of narrative and empathy, and brings these elements into ...
Lazzari, Gabriele
Gabriele Lazzari is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Rutgers University. His research focuses on the contemporary novel and on literature of migration, particularly in relation to ...
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, and lives in Portland, Oregon. As of 2017, she will have published 23 novels, 12 collections of stories, 5 books of essays, 13 books for children ...
Le Maitre, Finn
Finn Le Maitre is an English PhD student at Princeton. After writing this review essay he stopped eating meat.
Leahy, Anna
Anna Leahy is the author of the nonfiction book Tumor (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the poetry collection Aperture (Shearsman, 2017), the coauthor of Conversing with Cancer (Peter Lang, 2018) and Generation ...
Leavitt, Joshua Benjamin
Joshua Benjamin Leavitt is a doctoral candidate at the Ohio State University studying American police literature and true-crime fiction.
Lee, Summer Kim
Summer Kim Lee is a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Her writing can be found in Social Text, ASAP/Journal, Women & Performance ...
Lee, Wendy Allison
Wendy Allison Lee is an assistant professor of English at Skidmore College. Her teaching and research focus on Asian American literature and culture, as well as race in US popular culture. She is ...
Lee, James
James Lee is the director of the Digital Scholarship Center at the University of Cincinnati, where he is an associate professor of digital humanities. His research and teaching focus on the areas of ...
Lee, Yoon Sun
Yoon Sun Lee’s most recent book is The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels, forthcoming this year from Penn Press. She works across novel theory, the British novel, Romantic ...
Lee, Maurice S.
Maurice S. Lee is chair and professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860 (2005) and Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism ...
Lee, Erika
Erika Lee is a regents professor of history and Asian American studies, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, and president-elect of the Organization of ...
Lefebvre, Noémi
After two virtuoso books revisiting the art of interior monologue, Noémi Lefebvre published L’Enfance politique (2015; A Political Childhood). A highly political novel with a grand burlesque vitality ...
Lefèvre, Cécile
Cécile Lefèvre is Professor in Sociology at the University Paris-Descartes. Her research focuses on social protection systems in post-Soviet and emerging countries, and the relation between social ...
Lehr, John
John Lehr earned an MFA from the Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum ...
Leiva, Priscilla
Dr. Priscilla Leiva is an assistant professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o studies at Loyola Marymount University. Her research interests include relational ethnic studies, urban history, and sports ...
Lemanski, Dade
Dade Lemanski is a writer, scholar, and translator living in Pittsburgh. They research and archive histories of queer, trans, and leather culture, and are at work on a book about the poetics of ...
Lembcke, Jerry
Jerry Lembcke is Associate Professor Emeritus at College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (1998) and Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and ...
Lemoine, Sanaë
Sanaë Lemoine was born in Paris to a Japanese mother and a French father. She was raised in France and Australia, and now lives in New York. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and received ...
Lenfield, Spencer Lee
Spencer Lee Lenfield will begin a PhD in comparative literature at Yale in fall 2018. He has reviewed books for Slate and other publications, is a contributing editor at Harvard Magazine, and blogs ...
Lenhard, Johannes
Dr. Johannes Lenhard is research coordinator of the Max Planck Cambridge Centre for the Study of Ethics, Economy, and Social Change (Max Cam). He is currently working on a book on the ethics of ...
LeRoux, Ayden
Ayden LeRoux is an artist and the author of Odyssey Works (2016) and Isolation and Amazement (2012). Trained as a large-format photographer at New York University, her practice spans installation ...
Levendowski, Amanda
Amanda Levendowski is an associate professor at Georgetown Law, where her research focuses on using intellectual property, privacy, and cyberlaw to shape more just technologies.
Levi, Margaret
Margaret Levi, Stanford University, is the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a professor of political science, and a senior fellow of the Woods ...
Levine, Caroline
Caroline Levine is Chair of the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is one of a team of editors for the new Norton Anthology of World Literature and the author of three ...
Levitan, Rebecca
Rebecca Levitan is a PhD candidate in art history at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is finishing her dissertation on ancient sculpture. She is also a field archaeologist who has ...
Levy, Jonathan
Jonathan Levy is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. His first book, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America, is forthcoming from Harvard ...
Ley, James
James Ley was the Inaugural Editor of the Sydney Review of Books from January 2013 to July 2015 and is now its Contributing Editor. He is the author of The Critic in the Modern World: Public ...
Li, Jun
Jun Li is a teacher in the French language department of the University of Qingdao (Shandong) and a doctoral candidate at CESSMA at the Université de Paris. Her dissertation focuses on the return to ...
Lichtenstein, Alex
Alex Lichtenstein, editor of the American Historical Review, teaches US and South African history at Indiana University. He is the author (with Rick Halpern) of Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of ...
Light, Caroline E.
Caroline E. Light is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of That Pride of Race and Character: The ...
Liming, Sheila
Sheila Liming is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Dakota, where she teaches classes on 20th-century American fiction and digital media.
Linden, Ari
Ari Linden is an associate professor of German Studies at the University of Kansas. His first book, Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2020 ...
Lindskoog, Carl
Carl Lindskoog is an associate professor of history at Raritan Valley Community College and the author of Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World’s Largest Immigration Detention ...
Lingold, Mary Caton
Mary Caton Lingold is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studies African Atlantic literature and slavery. She works in multimedia, producing podcasts ...
Linker, Beth
Beth Linker is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science. Her book, War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America (2011) ...
Linton, David
David Linton is Professor Emeritus of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College as well as President of the New York State conference of the American Association of University Professors.
Lipsky, Pat
Pat Lipsky’s paintings are in 22 museum collections, including the Hirshhorn, the Whitney, the S.F. MoMA, and the Brooklyn. She’s had 29 one-woman exhibitions. More writing can be found at her ...
Little, Jr., Arthur L.
Arthur L. Little, Jr. is associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles; his research and pedagogy focus on racializing processes in the early modern period as well as in ...
Livingston, Lindsay
Lindsay Livingston is Coordinator of Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Theatre and Media Arts at Brigham Young University. Her research focuses on race, performance, and gun culture in the ...
Livingston, James
James Livingston teaches history at Rutgers University. He’s written a lot of books, starting with one on the Fed. The most recent is No More Work: Why Full Employment is a Bad Idea, from UNC ...
Livingston, Julie
Julie Livingston is Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. Her most recent book is Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable Told from Southern ...
Llobrera, Kairos G.
Kairos G. Llobrera received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and is currently an academic advisor at the University of Southern California.
Lloyd, Toby
Toby Lloyd earned his MFA in fiction from New York University. He now works as a freelance editor and writer.
Lomuto, Sierra
Sierra Lomuto will join Macalester College in Fall 2018 as a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow and then as Assistant Professor of English. She is currently finishing her doctoral ...
Long, Hoyt
Hoyt Long is associate professor of Japanese literature at the University of Chicago, where he codirects the Textual Optics Lab and teaches in media history and cultural analytics. His most recent ...
Loperena , Christopher
Christopher Loperena is an assistant professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research examines indigenous and black territorial struggles and the ...
Loss, Robert
Robert Loss teaches in the English and Philosophy Department at Columbus College of Art and Design. His critical writing about popular culture has appeared in PopMatters, Ghettoblaster, The Comics ...
Louis, Marieke
Marieke Louis completed her PhD in political science at Sciences Po in Paris in 2014 and is now an associate professor in political science and international relations at Sciences Po Grenoble, PACTE ...
Love, Heather
Heather Love teaches English and Gender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard), and has written on topics ...
Lozano, Rosina
Rosina Lozano is an associate professor of history at Princeton University whose research interests focus on Latino history, language politics, and comparative race and ethnicity. She is the author ...
Lu, Paolina
Paolina Lu is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her dissertation explores the future of food through taste and the development of “new ...
Lucey, Michael
Michael Lucey teaches comparative literature and French at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (2003) and ...
Luckett, Josslyn
Josslyn Jeanine Luckett is a playwright, essayist, and occasional preacher from Los Angeles, currently working on her PhD in Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She blogs at ...
Luckhurst, Roger
Roger Luckhurst is the editor of Lovecraft’s Classic Horror Tales (Oxford University Press, 2013). He teaches literature at the University of London and was visiting professor at Columbia University ...
Lugli, Madelyn
Madelyn Lugli is a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University studying international history. Her research focuses on the relationship between international thought and national spaces during the ...
Luhrmann, Tanya Marie
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor at Stanford University. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and many other ...
Lukes, Steven
Steven Lukes is Professor of Sociology at NYU. His books include Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work, Power: A Radical View, Moral Relativism, and The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A ...
Lumans, Alexander
Alexander Lumans has fiction forthcoming in Ninth Letter and previously in Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, and StoryQuarterly, among other periodicals. He was awarded a 2018 NEA Creative Writing ...
Lumsden, Alison
Alison Lumsden holds a chair in English Literature at the University of Aberdeen. She was a general editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and is now lead editor for a scholarly ...
Lumumba-Kasongo , Enongo
SAMMUS (Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo) is a professional rap artist and professor in the music department at Brown University, with a PhD in science and technology studies from Cornell University. Enongo ...
Lunbeck, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lunbeck is a professor in the department of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of The Americanization of Narcissism (Harvard University Press, 2014). She has ...
Lung, Shirley
Shirley Lung is a PhD candidate in sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research is in the areas of religion, immigration, and race/ethnicity. Her work has been funded by the Global Religion ...
Lupton, Christina
Christina Lupton is a professor of literary and cultural theory at the University of Copenhagen, where she directs the School of English, Germanic, and Romance Languages. She is the author of Reading ...
Lutz, Deborah
Deborah Lutz is the Thruston B. Morton Endowed Chair of English at the University of Louisville. Her books include The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects (Norton, 2015) and Relics of Death ...
Lyden, Jacki
Jacki Lyden was an award-winning correspondent and host for NPR for 35 years on such shows as Morning Edition & All Things Considered. The author of a bestselling memoir, Daughter of the Queen ...
Lye, Colleen
Colleen Lye, Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley, works on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, with special interests in realism, race, and empire. She is the author of ...
Lynch, Deidre
Deidre Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature at Harvard. Her books include Loving Literature: A Cultural History (2015) and The Unfinished Book (edited with Alexandra Gillespie ...