Padmanabhan, Lakshmi
Lakshmi Padmanabhan is assistant professor of film and media studies at Northwestern University. Her research and teaching interests include experimental cinema and visual art, postcolonial and ...
Paik, A. Naomi
A. Naomi Paik is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the HRI-Mellon faculty fellow in Legal Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Studies Resident Associate for ...
Panagia, Davide
Davide Panagia is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a political theorist with scholarly interests across the humanities and social sciences. His recent ...
Pandian, Anand
Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Ayya’s Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India (Indiana University Press, 2014), which he wrote with his ...
Papa, Victoria
Victoria Papa is assistant professor of English at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her research examines the intersection of cultural trauma and experimental aesthetics in 20th- and 21st ...
Parenti, Christian
Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist and author. His books include Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2000) and Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the ...
Parham, Marisa
Marisa Parham is professor of English at the University of Maryland, where she is director of the African American Digital Humanities initiative (AADHum) and associate director of the Maryland ...
Park, Julie J.
Julie J. Park is an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data (Harvard Education Press ...
Parker, Morgan
Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize, and There Are More Beautiful Things Than ...
Parker, Ben
Ben Parker has written about television and film for Film Quarterly, Artforum.com, the Paris Review blog, and Capital New York. He received his PhD in English from Columbia University in 2014. He ...
Parr, Jessica
Jessica M. Parr is an assistant professor of history at Simmons University. She received her PhD from the University of New Hampshire at Durham in 2012 and is a regular contributor to Black ...
Parra, Jamie
Jamie Parra is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is working on a dissertation entitled “Prisoners of Style: Slavery, Ethics, and ...
Parry, Rosalind
Rosalind Parry is a lecturer at Princeton University and an adjunct professor at Lander College for Women. Her writing has been published in Raritan, Literary Imagination, and T: The New York Times ...
Partington, Gill
Gill Partington researches and publishes on contemporary book cultures, unorthodox pages, and deviant readers. She was the Cambridge Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2018–19 and is now Research Fellow at ...
Pascoe, Judith
Judith Pascoe’s most recent book is On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan (University of Michigan Press, 2017). The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is also the ...
Pasold, Lisa
Lisa Pasold is a Montreal writer who divides her time between Paris and other places. She is currently in New Orleans. She is a journalist, novelist, and author of three books of poetry including A ...
Pasquale, Frank
Frank Pasquale is Piper & Marbury Professor of Law at the University of Maryland. His book The Black Box Society (Harvard University Press, 2015) examined the role of algorithms in governing ...
Pasqualina, Stephen
Stephen Pasqualina is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Core Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is currently completing a book project that examines the technological foundations of American ...
Passarello , Elena
Elena Passarello is the author of two collections of essays, Let Me Clear My Throat (Sarabande, 2012) and Animals Strike Curious Poses (Sarabande, 2017), which Outside magazine just named to its ...
Paz, Aleesha
Aleesha Paz is an editor, proofreader, and knitter. She currently works as the editor of Reading Australia, and as an editorial assistant for Giramondo Publishing. Aleesha also freelances for various ...
Pearce, S. J.
S. J. Pearce is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University and has held research fellowships in Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan and ...
Pearl, Jason
Jason Pearl is an associate professor of literature at Florida International University. His first book is Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel (2014); his second book project is entitled ...
Pearl, Sharrona
Sharrona Pearl is associate professor of medical ethics at Drexel University and a historian and theorist of the face. Her most recent book is Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other ...
Peebles, Gustav
Gustav Peebles is an Associate Professor at The New School in New York City, where he teaches anthropology and global studies. Currently, his research explores the social and legal regulation of ...
Peer, Jeff
Jeff Peer is a writer and teacher, an editor at Turtle Point Press, and an adjunct professor at the City University of New York. His criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in World Literature ...
Pei, Lowry
Lowry Pei is Professor of English at Simmons College, in Boston, where he has taught fiction and nonfiction writing for 30 years. His recent works, mostly unpublished, include a novel, a nonfiction ...
Perelman, Bob
Bob Perelman is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His books of poetry include Iflife (2006) and Ten to One: Selected Poems (1999); among his works of criticism are The ...
Perelmuter, Federico
Federico Perelmuter is a writer and translator based in Buenos Aires and New York.
Peres da Costa, Suneeta
Suneeta Peres da Costa lives on unceded Gadigal land. Her most recent book, Saudade (Giramondo, 2018; Transit, 2019), focuses on the legacies of Portuguese colonialism and the Goan diaspora in pre ...
Pérez Curiel, Bárbara
Bárbara Pérez Curiel is a PhD student at New York University’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds a master’s degree in modern languages from the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s ...
Pergadia, Samantha
Samantha Pergadia is an assistant professor of English at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches courses in multiethnic US literatures, science and technology studies, and the environmental ...
Perlow, Seth
Seth Perlow teaches American literature, poetics, and media studies at Georgetown University. His current book project, “The Poem Electric,” traces a lineage of experimental writers who use ...
Perrin, Tom
Tom Perrin is Associate Professor of English and Associate Provost at Huntingdon College. His book, The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction, was published in 2015, and his work has also appeared in ...
Perrin, Andrew
Andrew J. Perrin is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His most recent book is American Democracy: From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter (Polity, 2014) ...
Perry, Imani
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers professor of African American studies at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs and Gender and Sexuality ...
Perry, William J.
William J. Perry served as the 19th US secretary of defense. He founded the William J. Perry Project to engage and educate the public on the dangers of nuclear weapons in the 21st century. Perry is ...
Pesarini, Angelica
Angelica Pesarini is a faculty member at NYU Florence. Her current research investigates dynamics of race performativity with a focus on colonial and postcolonial Italy and she also works on the ...
Petaccio , Carmen
Carmen Petaccio’s fiction, nonfiction, and criticism have previously appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and The Baffler. He is currently ...
Peters, John Durham
John Durham Peters is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and a professor of film and media studies at Yale University. He is coauthor, with the late Kenneth Cmiel, of Promiscuous Knowledge: ...
Petersen, Jennifer
Jennifer Petersen is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings: Remembering Matthew Shepard and ...
Peterson, Katie
Katie Peterson is the author of five collections of poetry, including A Piece of Good News (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019) and Life in a Field (Omnidawn, 2021). She directs the MFA program in ...
Petre, Caitlin
Caitlin Petre is a postdoctoral fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Her work examines the shifting nature of professional autonomy and managerial authority in the networked ...
Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is Assistant Professor of History at The New School in New York City. She is the author of Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture (Oxford ...
Pettitt, Clare
Clare Pettitt is Professor of 19th-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London. She is currently finishing two books; one called “Distant Contemporaries: Revolution, Time Lag and Form ...
Phélippeau, Éric
Éric Phélippeau teaches political science at Nanterre University, in Paris. He is a researcher at the Institute for Political Social Sciences (Institut des sciences sociales du politique, CNRS). He ...
Philliou, Christine
Christine Philliou is Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History at Columbia University.
Phillips, Julie
Julie Phillips is the author of The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem and James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. She lives in Amsterdam and ...
Phillips, Rowan Ricardo
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of three books of poetry The Ground, Heaven, and Living Weapon, all published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He is also the author of a work of literary ...
Phillips, Matthew John
Matthew John Phillips is a doctoral candidate and former Jacob K. Javits Fellow at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His dissertation, “Worldly Figures,” is about literary character in the ...
Phillips-Fein, Kim
Kim Phillips-Fein is a historian and associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She is the author of Fear City: The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the ...
Philogene Heron , Adom
Dr. Adom Philogene Heron is a lecturer in anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Adom’s work concerns questions of gender, kinship, and hurricanes in the Caribbean. His forthcoming ...
Piccato, Pablo
Pablo Piccato is a professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture. His work includes ...
Pichichero, Christy
Christy Pichichero is associate professor of French and history at George Mason University and a specialist of the early modern French empire, race, and African diasporic studies. She is the author ...
Pickard, Victor
Victor Pickard is an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor (with Robert McChesney) of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn ...
Pierrot, Grégory
Grégory Pierrot is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford and author of The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (University of Georgia Press, 2019).
Pinto, Samantha
Samantha Pinto is the author of Difficult Diasporas (NYU Press, 2013) and Infamous Bodies (Duke University Press, forthcoming). She is also associate professor of English at the University of Texas ...
Piper, Andrew
Andrew Piper is professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. He is the director of .txtlab, a laboratory for cultural ...
Pistor, Katharina
Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her most recent book is The Code of ...
Platt, Kevin M. F.
Kevin M. F. Platt is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on ...
Platt, Ben
Ben Platt is editorial director at Public Books. Books, proposals, and articles Ben has edited have been published by Penguin Press, Picador, Melville House, Basic Books, St. Martin’s Press ...
Plotz, John
John Plotz edits the B-Sides at Public Books. He is Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and cohost of Recall This Book. His books include The Crowd (University of California ...
Polefrone , Philomena
Philomena Polefrone is a Core Lecturer in Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University, where she received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature in 2020. Her research focuses on the ...
Pollack-Pelzner, Daniel
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner holds the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Shakespeare Studies at Linfield College, in Oregon. His essays on Shakespeare and contemporary culture have recently appeared in the New ...
Pollitt, Katha
Katha Pollitt is a poet and essayist and a columnist at The Nation. Her most recent books are Learning to Drive (Random House, 2007), The Mind/Body Problem (Random House, 2009), and Pro: Reclaiming ...
Popkin, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Popkin is the author of five books, most recently the novel Everything Is Borrowed (New Door, 2018), and coeditor of an anthology, Who Will Speak for America? (Temple University Press ...
Porter, J. D.
J. D. Porter is a digital humanities specialist at the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. His writing has appeared in Synthese, The Atlantic, and Cultural Analytics.
Porter, Abby
Abby Porter is a senior at Columbia University, where she studies Political Science. She is involved in student government, and works on anti-sexual violence and mental health policies. This summer ...
Posmentier, Sonya
Sonya Posmentier is an assistant professor of English at New York University and the author of Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (2017). (Author photograph ...
Posnock, Ross
Ross Posnock teaches American literature from the mid-19th century to now at Columbia University. His books include Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual (1998) ...
Potluri, Keerthi
Keerthi Potluri is a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Central Park Conservancy’s Institute for Urban Parks. She holds a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. Follow her ...
Poulson-Bryant, Scott
Scott Poulson-Bryant is the author of HUNG: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America and The VIPs: A Novel. His work has appeared in Palimpsest, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, and ...
Powers, Kevin
Kevin Powers’s first novel, Yellow Birds (2012), was voted one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times. A finalist for the National Book Award, he received the Guardian First Book ...
Pravilova, Ekaterina
Ekaterina Pravilova is professor of history at Princeton, specializing in 19th-century Imperial Russia. A native of St. Petersburg, Professor Pravilova received a PhD from the Russian Academy of ...
Preciado, Paul B.
Paul B. Preciado is a writer, philosopher, curator, and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexual politics. He is the author of Pornotopia (Zone, 2014), for which he was awarded ...
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical physicist and feminist theorist at the University of New Hampshire. She is also a theorist of Black feminist science, technology, and society studies. She is ...
Press, Eyal
Eyal Press is a journalist who contributes to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. Since the spring of 2021, he is also a sociologist with a PhD from New York University. He is ...
Pressly, Lowry
Lowry Pressly is a writer and teacher, currently at Harvard University. He is writing, among other things, a book on privacy and being unknown for Harvard University Press.
Price, Rachel
Rachel Price is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. Her most recent book is Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island (2015).
Price, Leah
Leah Price’s books include What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (2019; Christian Gauss Prize), How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012; Patten Prize, Channing Prize), and The ...
Pritchard, Eric Darnell
Eric Darnell Pritchard is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His first book, Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy, will be ...
Pritchett, Laura
Laura Pritchett is the author of five novels. Her most recent novel, The Blue Hour, received starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist, and was recently named by PBS one of the “Top 5 Books ...
Proenza-Coles, Christina
Christina Proenza-Coles is the author of American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World (NewSouth, 2019). Her forthcoming book is “Imagining Communities ...
Pryluka, Pablo
Pablo Pryluka is a PhD candidate in the department of history at Princeton University. His main fields of interest are modern Latin American and global history, with a focus on social and economic ...
Puchner, Martin
Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His books and anthologies range from philosophy to the arts. His best ...
Puckett, Kent
Kent Puckett is Ida May and William J. Eggers Jr. Chair of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Oxford ...
Pugh, Alexandra
Alexandra Pugh is a PhD candidate in French and women’s studies at King’s College London. Her research focuses on French literature, film, and queer-feminist theory. She has published essays on the ...