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MacVeagh, Molly
Molly MacVeagh is a PhD candidate in English at Cornell University. She works on contemporary novels, food, and climate. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Oxford Food Symposium ...
Magnone , Sophia Booth
Sophia Booth Magnone is a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Feminist Press, where she works as development manager. She received her PhD in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Manaktala, Gita
Gita Manaktala is Editorial Director of the MIT Press, a publisher of scholarship at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology. Her own acquisitions are in the areas of information ...
Mancuso, Cecilia
Cecilia Mancuso is a PhD student in English at Harvard University whose research interests include contemporary genre fiction, queer and posthuman theory, comparative media studies, and fandom.
Mann, Geoff
Geoff Mann is a professor and undergraduate programs chair in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, where he also directs the Centre for Global Political Economy. Along with Climate ...
Manshel, Hannah
Hannah Manshel writes and teaches about settler colonialism, slavery, and the violence of the US legal system, primarily in the 19th century. She is an assistant professor of English at the ...
Marcus, Sara
Sara Marcus is the author of Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (2010). Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and ...
Marcus, Sharon
Sharon Marcus is editor in chief of Public Books and Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim ...
Mason, Derritt
Derritt Mason is an assistant professor of English at the University of Calgary, where he teaches and researches the intersections of children’s literature, queer theory, and cultural studies. He is ...
Massey, Douglas S.
Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Director of its Office of Population Research. He regularly teaches a course entitled ...
Mattern, Shannon
Shannon Mattern is a professor at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of The New Downtown Library (2007), Deep Mapping the Media City (2015), and Code and Clay, Data and Dirt (2017) ...
Mayer, Seth
Seth Mayer is an assistant professor of philosophy at Manchester University, Indiana. His published and forthcoming work addresses issues in democratic theory, criminal law and philosophy, climate ...
Maynes-Aminzade, Liz
Liz Maynes-Aminzade is the digital initiatives editor at the New Yorker and the former digital director at Public Books. She received her PhD in English from Harvard University in 2013.
Maza, Sarah
Sarah Maza is Professor of History at Northwestern University, where she directs the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies. Her most recent books are Violette Nozière: A Story of Murder in 1930s ...
Mazzarella, William
William Mazzarella is the Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India (2003) ...
McCammon, Muira
A doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Muira McCammon studies identity, invisibility, and the internet. Her writings on military ...
McCann, Sean
Sean McCann is a professor of English at Wesleyan University. (Author photograph by Olivia Drake)
McCauley, Stephen
Stephen McCauley is the author of seven novels, including The Object of My Affection (1987) and the forthcoming My Ex-Life. His reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and ...
McCoy, Austin
Austin McCoy is an assistant professor of history at Auburn University. His work has appeared in journals such as Social History and New Labor Forum and academic blogs such as Nursing Clio and Black ...
McGill, Meredith L.
Meredith L. McGill is professor of English at Rutgers University, where she teaches American literature and culture. She has published widely on 19th-century American literature, poetry and poetics ...
McGovern, Jim
Jim McGovern is a member of the US House of Representatives, representing Massachusetts’s 2nd congressional district. As a leading advocate in Congress for peace, he has repeatedly called attention ...
McGowan, Todd
Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019), Only a Joke ...
McGrath, Laura B.
Laura B. McGrath is an associate director of the Stanford Literary Lab and, starting in 2020, an assistant professor of English at Temple University.
McGurl, Mark
Mark McGurl is Professor of English at Stanford University. He is the author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (2009) and is currently working on a book on Amazon ...
McInnis, Jarvis C.
Jarvis C. McInnis is an assistant professor of African American and African Diaspora literature and culture at Duke University. He is at work on his first book manuscript, “Afterlives of the ...
McIvor, Méadhbh
Méadhbh McIvor is an assistant professor of Religion, Law and Human Rights at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, where she is also Deputy Director of the Centre for Religion, Conflict and ...
McKelvey, Patrick
Patrick McKelvey is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he works at the intersection of performance studies, theater history, queer and feminist disability studies, and the ...
McKinney, Kelley Deane
Kelley Deane McKinney is the publisher of Public Books and associate director of communications and special projects at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities ...
McKinney, Charles W.
Charles W. McKinney is the Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies and an associate professor of history at Rhodes College. He is the author of Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil ...
McLane, Maureen N.
Maureen N. McLane is the author of six books of poetry, two critical monographs on British romantic poetics, an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism (My Poets), and numerous essays on romantic ...
McLaughlin, Don James
Don James McLaughlin is an assistant professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. His writing has appeared in American Literature ...
McMahon, Elizabeth
Elizabeth McMahon is a professor of English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is the author of Islands, Identity, and the Literary Imagination (Anthem, 2016) and the editor of ...
McMillan, Bo
Bo McMillan is a PhD student of English and comparative literature at Columbia University who studies the relationships between narrative and neighborhood change in the 20th century. His writing has ...
McNulty, Tess
Tess McNulty is a PhD candidate in English literature at Harvard University, working on contemporary literature and digital culture.
McWilliams, James
James McWilliams is a history professor at Texas State University. He lives in Austin, Texas, and is writing a biography of the poet Frank Stanford. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly ...
Meloni, Maurizio
Maurizio Meloni is a social theorist with strong affiliations to science and technology studies and the history of the life sciences. He is the author of Political Biology: Science and Social Values ...
Mendelman, Lisa
Lisa Mendelman is assistant professor of English and digital humanities at Menlo College. She works in the health humanities, with a focus on gender, race, and affect in 20th-century America. Her ...
Méndez, Alexandra
Alexandra Méndez is a PhD student in Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her research focuses on early modern ...
Menon, Tara K.
Tara K. Menon is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and will begin as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Harvard University in the fall of 2021. Her writing has ...
Mentz, Steve
Steve Mentz writes about the ocean, literary culture, the blue humanities, and the history of narrative forms. He teaches Shakespeare, the environmental humanities, and eco-theory at St. John’s ...
Meyer, Lily
Lily Meyer is a writer and translator from Washington, DC. She’s a regular reviewer for NPR Books, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New Yorker, Tin House, the Sewanee Review, and more ...
Mian, Zia
Zia Mian is a physicist and codirector of the Program on Science and Global Security, which is part of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he ...
Mieszkowski, Jan
Jan Mieszkowski is a professor of German and comparative literature at Reed College. He is the author of Crises of the Sentence (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Watching War (Stanford University ...
Mikanowski, Jacob
Jacob Mikanowski is a writer living in California. Previously, he studied European history at Berkeley. His work has been published in The Guardian, New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, The Point ...
Milkova, Stiliana
Stiliana Milkova is associate professor of comparative literature at Oberlin College and a translator from Italian. Her scholarly publications include articles on Italian, Russian, and Bulgarian ...
Miller, Courtney Pina
Courtney Pina Miller is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Brandeis University, where she teaches literature and writing. Her research examines representations of the working and ...
Miller, Derek
Derek Miller is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in theater history and dramatic literature. His book, Copyright and the Value of ...
Miller, Christopher
Christopher R. Miller is a professor of English at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). He is the author of Surprise: The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen (2015) and The Invention of ...
Miller, Andrew H.
Andrew H. Miller is the author of the forthcoming On Not Being Someone Else: Tales from Our Unled Lives, and a professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. His essays have appeared in Brick ...
Miller, Daegan
Daegan Miller is the author of This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and his essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Aeon ...
Miller, John MacNeill
John MacNeill Miller is an assistant professor of English at Allegheny College. His writing on literature, animals, and the environment has appeared in Avidly, The Millions, and PMLA, among other ...
Miller, Rachel
Rachel Miller is a PhD Candidate at Ohio State University and the assistant editor for Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. Her research considers the intersection between teenage girls’ ...
Millington, Gareth
Gareth Millington is an urban sociologist at the University of York, UK. He is author of Race, Culture, and the Right to the City (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Urbanization and the Migrant in ...
Milvert, Kaitlynn
Kaitlynn Milvert is an undergraduate student at Indiana University, where she studies Spanish and English and writes for various campus publications. She is currently working on a project on the ...
Min, Mariah
Mariah Junglan Min is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is working on her dissertation on how the medieval figure of Judas Iscariot functions as a site for the construction ...
Mirashrafi, Melory
Melory Mirashrafi is the Huntington Theatre Company’s 2019–20 Literary Apprentice. Melory’s writing has been featured at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference and the ...
Mirer, Michael
Michael Mirer is a freelance writer and tutor living in Somerville, MA. He is interested in left-wing politics, American studies, rhetoric, and Virginia Woolf.
Mockett, Marie Mutsuki
Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born to an American father and a Japanese mother. Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. Her ...
Modleski, Tania
Tania Modleski is a professor emerita of English. She taught in the English department at the University of Southern California and is the author of several books and numerous articles on film and ...
Moffat, Chris
Chris Moffat is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of ...
Moi, Toril
Toril Moi teaches literature at Duke University. She has written books on feminist theory, Simone de Beauvoir, and Henrik Ibsen. Her most recent book is Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies ...
Moll, Yasmin
Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is currently completing “The Revolution Within: Critique and the Islamic Revival,” on new forms of Islamic ...
Molotch, Harvey
Harvey Molotch is professor emeritus of sociology and metropolitan studies at New York University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Against Security: How We Go Wrong ...
Monk-Payton, Brandy
Brandy Monk-Payton is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University. Her research focuses on the history and theory of African American media representation and ...
Moon, Julie
Julie Moon is a writer, translator, and teacher. She currently teaches undergraduate writing at Columbia University, and her work has been published in Catapult, the Brooklyn Rail, EssayDaily, the ...
Morena, Edouard
Edouard Morena is a lecturer in French politics and history at the University of London Institute in Paris. Over the past six years, he has been researching non-state actors’ involvement in ...
Morgan, Benjamin
Benjamin Morgan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where his research and teaching address intersections of science, literature, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century ...
Morgan, Monique R.
Monique R. Morgan is an associate professor of English at Indiana University and a coeditor of Victorian Studies. Her publications include Narrative Means, Lyric Ends: Temporality in the Nineteenth ...
Morris, Adam
Adam Morris is the author of American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation (Liveright, 2019). He has translated fiction by Hilda Hilst, João Gilberto Noll, Beatriz Bracher, Pola Oloixarac, and ...
Mort, Frank
Frank Mort is Professor of Cultural Histories at the University of Manchester and the author of several books about the history of modern Britain. He is currently writing a book about the British ...
Mount, Guy Emerson
Guy Emerson Mount is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago and an incoming assistant professor of African American History at Auburn University.
Muehlebach, Andrea
Andrea Muehlebach is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto. Author of The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2012), she is ...
Mukerji, Chandra
Chandra Mukerji is professor emerita of the Department of Communication and Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. She writes about early modernity and the power of ...
Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Studies at Warwick University. His books include Crime and Empire: The Colony in Nineteenth-Century Fictions of ...
Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay is an assistant professor of English at Yale University. The coeditor of The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), she is currently ...
Muñiz, Wendy V.
Wendy V. Muñiz is a cultural scholar, curator, and filmmaker. Her research centers on unorthodox archival media and decolonial visual cultures in the transnational Caribbean. She is an assistant ...
Muñoz Martinez, Monica
Monica Muñoz Martinez is Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and author of the award-winning book The ...
Munro, Brenna M.
Brenna M. Munro is an associate professor at the University of Miami, and the author of South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom (2012). She is ...
Murray, Molly
Molly Murray is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York.
Murray, Mitch R.
Mitch R. Murray is a Canadian scholar and teacher living in Florida and a PhD candidate in the department of English at the University of Florida. He is coeditor of the forthcoming book William ...
Musser, Amber Jamilla
Amber Jamilla Musser is an associate professor of American studies at the George Washington University. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) and ...
