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Macekura, Stephen

Stephen Macekura is a postdoctoral fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. He is completing a book on the history of sustainability ...

MacLeish, Ken

Ken MacLeish is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. His book, Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community ...

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.

Mah, M. C.

M.C. Mah is a critic and novelist. His work has appeared in the Rumpus, Full Stop, the Nervous Breakdown, KGB Bar Lit Magazine, and Cobalt Review.

Saikat Majumdar is the author, most recently, of the novel The Firebird (2015). He has also published a monograph, Prose of the World (2013), and an earlier novel, Silverfish (2007). He teaches world ...

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 ...

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 ...

Margini, Matt

Matt Margini is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, specializing in Victorian literature and its animal representations. His dissertation ...

Marshall, Robert

Robert Marshall is a writer and visual artist. His novel, A Separate Reality, was published by Carroll & Graf in 2006, and his artwork has been widely exhibited in Europe and the United States ...

Martin, Danny

Danny Martin moved from rural Alabama to Tucson, Arizona over a decade ago to pursue an MFA in printmaking at the University of Arizona. He currently teaches screenprinting at a small community ...

Martin, Kristen

Kristen Martin recently received an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. Her essays have been published in Literary Hub, The Hairpin, Guernica, The Toast, The Grief Diaries, Saveur ...

Martin, Emily

Emily Martin teaches anthropology at New York University. She is the author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (1987), Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American ...

Martire, Agustina

Agustina Martire is a lecturer in architecture at Queen’s University Belfast. She studied architecture in Universidad de Buenos Aires, has a PhD in urban history from TU Delft, and a postdoc in urban ...

Marwick, Alice E.

Alice E. Marwick is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University and the director of the McGannon Center for Communication Research. She is the author of Status ...

Masco, Joseph

Joseph Masco teaches science studies and anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (2006).

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) ...

Mayeux, Sara

Sara Mayeux is the Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow at Harvard Law School for 2013–14 and a PhD candidate in United States history at Stanford University. She holds a JD from Stanford Law School.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

McKinney, Kelley Deane

Kelley Deane McKinney is the communications manager at Public Books and Columbia University’s Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities. She is also a nonfiction editor for Guernica ...

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 ...

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 ...

McLennan, Rebecca

Rebecca McLennan teaches American legal, social, and political history at UC Berkeley and is the author of The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State ...

McNeill, J. R.

J. R. McNeill teaches environmental and global history at Georgetown University. His books include Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World (2000); ...

McNulty, Tess

Tess McNulty is a PhD candidate in English literature at Harvard University, working on contemporary literature and digital culture.

McQuarrie, Michael

Michael McQuarrie is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Along with Caroline Lee and Edward Walker, he recently edited the forthcoming Democratizing Inequalities: ...

McQuirter, Marya

Marya McQuirter is curator of the dc1968 project, a digital storytelling project that amplifies activism, art, architecture, and everyday life in Washington, DC, in 1968 through daily stories and ...

Meadow, Tey

Tey Meadow is an assistant professor of sociology and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Harvard University. Her first book, an ethnographic study of the first generation of families raising ...

Medina, Eden

Eden Medina is Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her award-winning book Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile ...

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 ...

Mendelsohn, Ben

Ben Mendelsohn is a PhD student in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University where he focuses on environment, infrastructure, and experimental film. He is co-directing a documentary ...

Mendelsund, Peter

Peter Mendelsund is Associate Art Director of Alfred A. Knopf. He has been described by the New York Times as “one of the top designers at work today” and the Wall Street Journal has called his ...

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 PhD candidate in English at New York University. Her dissertation, “Speakable Sentences,” is about speech and conversation in 19th-century British novels. She is also ...

Metz, Sam

Sam Metz is a New York-based writer whose work has appeared in The Nation, Muftah, and Business Insider.

Metzl, Jonathan M.

Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

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 Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Reed College. He is the author of Watching War (2012) and Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to ...

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 ...

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, Elizabeth Carolyn

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and is currently researching 19th-century ecology and capital. She has published two books: Slow Print: ...

Miller, Nancy K.

Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her most recent books are the family memoir What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past ...

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, Isaac Ginsberg

Isaac Ginsberg Miller is an MFA candidate in Poetry at New York University, a Callaloo Fellow, and a teaching artist with Urban Word NYC. Isaac has previously taught with InsideOut Literary Arts ...

Miller, John

John Miller is an artist, writer, and musician based in New York and Berlin. His books include Mike Kelley: Educational Complex (Afterall, 2015), The Ruin of Exchange: Selected Writings (JRP | ...

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’ ...

Mills, Mara

Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, where she co-directs the Center for Disability Studies. Her book On the Phone: Hearing Loss and ...

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 ...

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.

Mirowski, Philip

Philip Mirowski is a professor in the History and Philosophy of Science program at the University of Notre Dame. His latest book, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived ...

Mitchell, Christine

Christine Mitchell is a postdoctoral fellow in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Her research focuses on machine translation and language acquisition technologies and she is currently working ...

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 ...

Mogilevich, Mariana

Mariana Mogilevich is Editor in Chief of Urban Omnibus. A historian of architecture and urbanism, she is completing the book “The Invention of Public Space: Design and Politics in Lindsay’s New York” ...

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 of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at NYU. His most recent book is Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger. A prior ...

Moody, Rick

Rick Moody is the author of six novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and a volume of essays on music. His most recent publication is the novel Hotels of North America. With Kid Millions of ...

Moon, Grace

Grace Moon is an artist, writer, and educator. She founded the queer women’s arts and culture site velvetparkmedia.com and teaches in the graphic design department at Queens College. Her artwork can ...

Moore, Carley

Carley Moore is an essayist, novelist, and poet. Her debut collection of essays, 13 Pills, is forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions in 2017. To see more of her work, check out her website or follow her ...

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 ...

Moretti, Franco

Franco Moretti teaches literature at Stanford, where he also directs the Literary Lab. His most recent books are Distant Reading and The Bourgeois, both published in 2013. He writes often for New ...

Morgan, Saretta

Saretta Morgan spent four years in Germany with the U.S. Military before earning a B.A. from Columbia University. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New ...

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 ...

Morris, Adam

Adam Morris is a PhD Candidate in Spanish & Portuguese at Stanford University. He first met Lúcia Rosa in June of 2011 in São Paulo; his interview was conducted in Portuguese via e-mail ...

Morris, Barbara Bryce

Barbara Bryce Morris cofounded the MFA research and writing program at Parsons the New School for Design, where she works with digital designers, game designers, and filmmakers. She is a former film ...

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 ...

Mosse, Richard

Richard Mosse holds an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art and a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths, London. He also holds a first-class BA in English literature from ...

Moulton, Mo

Mo Moulton is Lecturer in the History of Race and Empire at the University of Birmingham (UK) and author of Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England (2014). She’s at work on two new projects: one ...

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.

Moy, Olivia Loksing

Olivia Loksing Moy is an assistant professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, where she teaches Romantic and Victorian literature. Her essays have been published in Women’s ...

Muhammad, Ismail

Ismail Muhammad is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studies post-’45 American literature, African American intellectual history, and ...

Mukherjee, Debashree

Debashree Mukherjee teaches South Asian cinema in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.

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 ...

Mullen, Claire

Claire Mullen is a writer and audio producer based in Mexico City.

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, Susan

Susan Murray is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is currently writing a history of color television in the US from 1928 to 1970.

Musser, Amber Jamilla

Amber Jamilla Musser is associate professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (2014).