Authors - Public Books

O’Brien, Geoffrey G.

Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s latest book is Experience in Groups (Wave, 2018). He is also the author, most recently, of People on Sunday (Wave, 2013) and the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy ...

O’Loughlin, Joey

Joey O’Loughlin is a documentary photographer, writer, and producer. Her work emphasizes the value of human connection. Family Portraits, an exhibit of the work featured here, is being shown at ...

O’Mara, Margaret

Margaret O’Mara is the Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington, where she teaches and writes about the political and economic history of the modern ...

O’Shea, Moira

Moira O’Shea is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago.

Sean O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of English, Director of Project Narrative, and member of the Film Studies Program at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Mike Leigh (2011), a volume ...

Offner, Amy C.

Amy C. Offner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is writing a book on Cold War anti-poverty programs, economic thought, and the making of neoliberalism in the ...

Ofosu-Somuah , Barbara

Barbara Ofosu-Somuah is a data nerd, writer, and emerging Italian-to-English translator, from Accra, Ghana, and the Bronx, New York. Her translations attempt to bring the works of contemporary Afro ...

Ogden, Emily

Emily Ogden is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on 19th-century American fiction and the occult.

Ogura, Fumika

Fumika Ogura is a Tokyo-based writer and editor for fashion and cultural platforms. She also works for a music label, mainly promoting foreign musicians.

Oksman, Tahneer

Tahneer Oksman is Assistant Professor and Director of the Academic Writing Program at Marymount Manhattan College. She recently published her first book, How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?: Women ...

Olidort, Shoshana

Shoshana Olidort is a writer, critic, and translator. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Astra, Asymptote, the Cortland Review, LitHub, The Paris Review Daily, and the Times Literary ...

Olubas, Brigitta

Brigitta Olubas is a professor of English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her most recent books are We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard ...

Omenga, Joshua Uchenna

Joshua Uchenna Omenga is a Nigerian editor and writer of African speculative and literary fiction. His story “The Deification of Igodo” appeared on Tor.com (Africa Risen anthology) and in The Year’s ...

Orol, Rachel

Rachel Orol is a recent graduate of the History and Literature program at Harvard, where she wrote her thesis on the history of public art in the London Underground. She currently lives in Cambridge ...

Orr, Ittai

Ittai Orr is a graduate of Columbia University and a PhD student in American Studies at Yale University. His research focus is disability and labor policy, 18th- and 19th-century cultural history ...

Orsenna, Érik

After studying philosophy, political science, and economics, Érik Orsenna became a teacher and researcher. A member of the Académie française and the Haut Conseil de la francophonie, he has also ...

Osgood, Miles

Miles Osgood is a PhD student in English at Harvard University, where he is at work on a dissertation on global modernism and international sport, focusing on the Olympic Art Competitions of 1912 to ...

Ossei-Owusu, Shaun

Shaun Ossei-Owusu is a Presidential Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He is a proud Bronx native and specializes in the areas of race, class, gender, and ...

Ostby , Marie

Marie Ostby is an assistant professor of English and Global Islamic Studies at Connecticut College. Her book in progress, “Genre without Borders: Reading Globally between Modern Iran and the West,” ...

Ott, Julia

Julia Ott is Associate Professor in the History of Capitalism and codirector of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College at ...

Oyler, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Oyler is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Illinois. She is author of Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan and articles on The ...

Özden-Schilling, Canay

Canay Özden-Schilling is an anthropologist of capitalism, energy, and technology. She teaches at Johns Hopkins University. Canay received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in ...