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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 ...
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.
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.
Majumdar, Saikat
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 ...
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 ...
Margini, Matt
Matt Margini is a freelance writer and the videogames section editor for Public Books. He completed a PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2018, and his essays have ...
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) ...
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 ...
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)
McCarthy, Jesse
Jesse McCarthy is Assistant Professor in the departments of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is currently completing a book project, The Blue Period: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Molina, Natalia
Natalia Molina is a professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of two award-winning books, How Race Is Made in America: ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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, 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.
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 ...