Authors - Public Books

Na, Emily

Emily Na is a PhD student in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She researches African American literature and visual culture, with a focus on depictions of slavery in contemporary ...

Naayem, Natasha

Natasha Naayem grew up in Montreal, Beirut, and Paris. She is an MFA graduate of Columbia University and a recent Shanghai resident.

Nadal, Paul

Paul Nadal is completing a dissertation, at UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, on the relationship between history and literature in the Filipino novel. He also teaches at The New School as a ...

Nagel, Barbara N.

Barbara N. Nagel is assistant professor of German at Princeton University and author of Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond: Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence ...

Jeff Nagy is a media historian and translator based in Palo Alto, CA. Two translations from French are forthcoming in 2017: Alice Michel’s Degas and His Model and Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s Pissing ...

Nakayasu, Sawako

Sawako Nakayasu writes and translate poetry; her recent book, Mouth: Eats Color—Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-translations, & Originals does both in one work. Other recent books include Texture ...

Nardini, Nicholas

Nicholas Nardini is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard.

Natarajan, Radhika

Radhika Natarajan is assistant professor of history and humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her research focuses on the intertwined histories of decolonization, the welfare state, and ...

Nealon, Christopher

Christopher Nealon teaches English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of two books of literary criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (Duke, 2001) and ...

Needham, Andrew

Andrew Needham is the author of the prize-winning book Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Princeton University Press, 2014). He is currently writing a history of oil and ...

Neff, Tim

Tim Neff is a PhD student in NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Prior to that, he worked for 20 years as a journalist, both in print and online.

Negrón-Gonzales , Genevieve

Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales is associate professor of education at the University of San Francisco. Raised on the US-Mexico border, Genevieve has been working with undocumented young people for the ...

Negrón-Muntaner, Frances

Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, writer, scholar and professor at Columbia University, where she is also the founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activism Archive. Among her books and ...

Neighbor, Joseph

Joseph Neighbor is a Florida-born, Brooklyn-based writer. He has written about history, the arts, and science for the Believer, Salon, Grantland, Hyperalleric, and the L Magazine, among others.

Nel, Philip

Philip Nel is director of the graduate program in children’s literature at Kansas State University. He is the author or coeditor of 11 books, the most recent of which is Was the Cat in the Hat Black ...

Nelson, Max

Max Nelson’s writings on film and literature have appeared in the Threepenny Review, n+1, Film Comment, The New Republic, and other publications. He is an editorial assistant at The New York Review ...

Nelson, Priya

Priya Nelson is Editor for Anthropology and History at the University of Chicago Press. Her fields of acquisition reflect her academic training at the University of Chicago (BA) and the University of ...

Neptune, Jessica

Jessica Neptune is Associate Director of National Programs for the Bard Prison Initiative and Director of BPI’s Chicago office. She was an American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellow with the ...

Nersessian, Anahid

Anahid Nersessian is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, will be published ...

Nevala-Lee, Alec

Alec Nevala-Lee was a 2019 Hugo Award finalist for Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Dey Street, 2018), which was ...

Newman, Andrew

Andrew Newman’s current research is on the experiences of generations of student readers with the books most commonly assigned in American high school English classes. He is professor and chair of ...

Neyenesch, Cassandra

Cassandra Neyenesch is the author of Euphemia Fan: Spy Girl (Full Fathom Five, 2014) and the forthcoming novel Owl Canyon. She is also founding director of Abortion Stories: An Interactive Arts ...

Neyra, Ren Ellis

Ren Ellis Neyra is an associate professor at Wesleyan University.

Nieto, Sandra Rodríguez

Sandra Rodríguez Nieto began reporting for the Ciudad Juárez daily newspaper El Diario in 2003. She has received the Reporteros Del Mundo prize from the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the Knight ...

Nishikawa, Kinohi

Kinohi Nishikawa is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. His writings on African American print and popular culture have appeared in Book ...

Nixon, Melody

Melody Nixon is a New Zealand–born writer living in New York City. Her essays, poetry, fiction, and interviews have appeared in Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Cura Magazine, Midnight Breakfast ...

Nixon, Rob

Rob Nixon holds the Barron Family Professorship in Environment and Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University ...

Noah, Will

Will Noah is an editorial assistant at the Criterion Collection.

Noguera, Pedro

Pedro Noguera is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. His research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social ...

Nolan, Mary

Mary Nolan is Professor of History at New York University. Her research focuses on the Cold War, Americanization and anti-Americanism in Europe, and the history of human rights. She is the author of ...

Nolan , Rachel

Rachel Nolan is an assistant professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

Norén, Laura

Laura Norén is a Moore/Sloan Postdoctoral Associate doing ethnographic work in the Center for Data Science at New York University, where she is also an Adjunct Professor in the Stern School of ...

Norgaard, Lara

Lara Norgaard is a PhD student in comparative literature at Harvard University, where her research centers on the memory of US-backed dictatorships in Latin America and Southeast Asia. She was the ...

Norman, Max

Max Norman studies literature at the University of Oxford.

North, Joseph

Joseph North is completing a PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His dissertation is a history and theorization of the project of aesthetic education as it relates to ...

Nothias, Toussaint

Toussaint Nothias is the associate director of research at the Digital Civil Society Lab. He researches digital technologies, journalism, and civil society across Africa.

Nucho, Joanne Randa

Joanne Randa Nucho, an anthropologist and filmmaker, is the author of Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power (Princeton University Press, 2016) and ...

Nunberg, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist, teaches at the UC Berkeley School of Information. His most recent book is Ascent of the A-Word (2012).

Nunes, Rodrigo

Rodrigo Nunes is professor of modern and contemporary philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Organisation of the Organisationless (Mute, 2014). His ...

Nyong’o, Tavia

Tavia Nyong’o is William Lampson Professor of American Studies at Yale University and author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press ...

NYU Sanctuary,

NYU Sanctuary is a coalition of faculty, students, and staff of New York University who are committed to the rights of immigrants and to ensuring sanctuary to all members of our community at NYU, in ...