Authors

Sadana, Rashmi

Rashmi Sadana teaches anthropology and global studies at George Mason University. She is currently writing a book about how Delhi’s new metro system is changing the city’s cultural geography. Her ...

Sagan, Claire

Claire Sagan is an assistant professor of political theory at Vassar College. She is currently finishing her book, “Beyond Utopia,” which engage temporality in our context of ecological catastrophes ...
Alex Sager

Sager, Alex

Alex Sager is associate professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People (Rowman and ...

Saint-Amour, Paul

Paul Saint-Amour is Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches 19th- and 20th-century literature. He is the author of The ...
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author of over 30 articles on revolution, subaltern politics, indigenous peoples ...

salters, j. n.

j. n. salters is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication studying race, gender, class, and sexuality in the contexts of visual culture, sex work ...

Samuel , Petal

Petal Samuel is a scholar of Afro-Caribbean literature and Caribbean anticolonial thought, politics, and aesthetics. She is currently an assistant professor in the department of African, African ...

Sanchez, Rebecca

Rebecca Sanchez is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. Her interests include transatlantic modernism, disability studies, and poetics. She is the recipient of a 2015–16 AAUW ...

Sánchez Prado , Ignacio M.

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn professor in the humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on Mexican literature, film, and culture and ...

Sanchez Sanchez, Alberto

Alberto Sanchez Sanchez is a PhD student in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley. A licensed architect in Spain, Alberto holds a MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and is ...

Sand, Jordan

Jordan Sand teaches the history of Japan at Georgetown University and writes widely on cities and material culture in East Asia. His own experiment in network thinking, titled “Gentlemen’s Agreement ...

Sandhu, Sukhdev

Sukhdev Sandhu is an associate professor in the Department of English Literature at NYU, where he also runs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture. He writes for the Guardian, Bidoun, and the Wire, and ...
Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes

Sandoval-Cervantes, Iván

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes is a cultural anthropologist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He is currently an assistant professor of anthropology in the department of anthropology at the University of Nevada ...

Santiago, Victor M.

Victor M. Santiago was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He studied literature at Florida International University, and can be found drinking coffee at Books & Books in Coral Gables at the ...

Sanyal, Debarati

Debarati Sanyal is Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance (2015) and The Violence of Modernity: ...

Sarewitz, Daniel

Daniel Sarewitz is professor of science and society at Arizona State University. He is editor in chief of Issues in Science and Technology and was a regular columnist for Nature from 2009 to 2017 ...
Saskia Sassen

Sassen, Saskia

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where she also co-chairs the Committee on Global Thought. Her books have been translated into 21 languages and ...
Maxwell Sater

Sater, Maxwell

Maxwell Sater is a writer living in Colorado. He recently received his PhD in English literature from Rutgers University.
Michael Sauder

Sauder, Michael

Michael Sauder is a professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and a fellow at Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt, Germany. He is the author, with Wendy Espeland, of Engines of Anxiety: Academic ...

Sayer, Mandy

Mandy Sayer won the Vogel Award for her first novel, Mood Indigo, two weeks after this interview took place.  She has since published five works of fiction, and six works of non-fiction ...

Sayers, Nicola

Nicola Sayers recently completed her PhD at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her book, The Promise of Nostalgia: Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Literature ...
Elaine Scarry

Scarry, Elaine

Elaine Scarry teaches at Harvard University, where she is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value. She is the author of The Body in Pain (1985), On Beauty and Being Just (1999) ...
Christopher Schaberg

Schaberg, Christopher

Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. His latest book is Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental ...

Schaffer, Talia

Talia Schaffer is a professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction (2016), Novel Craft: ...

Schechner, Karen

Karen Schechner is the senior Indie editor at Kirkus Reviews, and also an editor at Lambda Literary. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and is a member of the New York ...

Schlabach, Betsy

Betsy Schlabach is an Associate Professor of History and African & African American Studies at Earlham College. She obtained a Ph.D. in American Studies and graduate certificates of Women’s ...
David Scheifer

Schleifer, David

David Schleifer is vice president and director of research at Public Agenda, a nonpartisan research and public-engagement organization, where he conducts public-opinion research on health care ...

Schneider, Bethany

Bethany Schneider is Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. Writing as Bee Ridgway, she is the author of The River of No Return (2013), a time-travel novel that employs, among several ...
Josh Schneiderman

Schneiderman, Josh

Josh Schneiderman is completing a dissertation on the poetics of ephemerality in postwar American poetry at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He edited the 1955–56 ...

Schnepf, J. D.

J. D. Schnepf is an organizer of the Novel Theory seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center and a lecturer in the History & Literature concentration at Harvard University, where she teaches 20th ...
Stuart Schrader

Schrader, Stuart

Stuart Schrader teaches Africana studies and sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is completing a book for the University of California Press on the domestic consequences of US overseas ...
Andrew Schrock

Schrock, Andrew

Dr. Andrew Schrock is the founder of Aloi Research and Consulting, author of the book Civic Tech, and faculty at USC Annenberg. He researches communication and technology, particularly nonprofit ...

Schüll, Natasha Dow

Natasha Dow Schüll is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of Addiction by Design: ...

Schwartz, Marcy

Marcy Schwartz is chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University. She teaches service learning courses and leads reading programs with Hispanic inmates in local prisons ...

Scibona, Salvatore

Salvatore Scibona’s first novel, The End (Graywolf, 2008), was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and an O. Henry Award; and he is a ...
Lwando Scott

Scott, Lwando

Lwando Scott, PhD, is a Next Generation Scholar at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape. Lwando’s research focus is on what he loosely terms “queering the ...

Seguín, Bécquer

Bécquer Seguín is an assistant professor of Iberian studies at Johns Hopkins University. His essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Seidel, Kathleen Gilles

Kathleen Gilles Seidel is the author of 14 contemporary novels, which have won many romance-market awards, including two RITAs from the Romance Writers of America. She has a PhD in English Literature ...

Seidman, Naomi

Naomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Her areas ...
Sherene Seikaly

Seikaly, Sherene

Sherene Seikaly is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford ...
Isis Semaj-Hall

Semaj-Hall, Isis

Isis Semaj-Hall is an assistant professor of Caribbean literature and pop culture in the department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona. As the Riddim Writer, she ...

Sen, Rinku

Rinku Sen is the president of Race Forward, a national racial justice organization, and the publisher of the daily news website Colorlines.com.

Sennett, Richard

Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor, and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and at the London School of Economics.

Serlin, David

David Serlin is Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, and editor or author of several books including Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar ...
Namwali Serpell

Serpell, Namwali

Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer and associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first novel is The Old Drift (Hogarth, 2019).
Oscar Tantoco Serquiña, Jr.

Serquiña Jr., Oscar Tantoco

Oscar Tantoco Serquiña Jr. is a PhD candidate in theater studies at the University of Melbourne, where he is working on a dissertation that explores sites of speech study, training, and performance ...

Servon, Lisa J.

Lisa J. Servon is Professor and former dean at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of urban ...

Seshagiri, Urmila

Urmila Seshagiri is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, where she teaches modernism, contemporary fiction, and postcolonial studies. She is the author of Race and the ...

Seth, Pyar

Pyar Seth is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University in the Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies Program pursuing a joint track in political science and medical anthropology. Broadly, he does ...
Aarti Sethi

Sethi, Aarti

Aarti Sethi is an anthropologist who works on the economic and social life of debt in rural India. Her current book project examines farmer suicides in Vidharba, central India. She has published on ...
Kieran Setiya

Setiya, Kieran

Kieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working mainly in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. He is the author of a self-help book ...

Setter, Shaul

Shaul Setter is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation examines the question of collectivity in texts written in and about ...

Seur, Carrie La

Carrie La Seur is a seventh-generation descendant of Montana homesteaders, an environmental lawyer, and the founder of the nonprofit legal organization Plains Justice. She practices law on behalf of ...

Seymour, Nicole

Nicole Seymour is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty in Environmental Studies and Queer Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of Strange Natures: ...

Shaalan, Nora

Nora Shaalan is a writer and PhD student at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in the Oxonian Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Shafaieh, Charles

Charles Shafaieh is a freelance journalist specializing in cultural criticism. A graduate of Columbia University, his writing has appeared in Slate, Music & Literature, and The Daily Beast. You ...

Shankar, Ravi

Ravi Shankar is Poet-in-Residence and Associate Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University; Chairman of the Connecticut Young Writers Trust; and Founding Editor of Drunken Boat. He ...
Harel Shapira

Shapira, Harel

Harel Shapira is an ethnographer and assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of American ...

Sharkey, Patrick

Patrick Sharkey is the author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, to be published in January 2018. He is chair of NYU’s Sociology ...

Sharp, Deen

Deen Sharp is a codirector of Terreform, an urban research studio and advocacy group, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Sheehan, Lucy

Lucy Sheehan is a PhD candidate in English literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation examines the relationship between representations of slavery in nineteenth-century Britain and the ...

Shelton, Allen

Allen Shelton lives in Buffalo, New York, within walking distance of where Foucault resided during his time there. He was trained as a sociologist at a Southern land-grant university, though now his ...

Shepard, Meredith

Meredith Shepard is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale University Council on African Studies. She received her PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. Her dissertation ...

Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is an assistant professor in Loyola University Chicago’s history department. Her work on American political economy has appeared online, in scholarly journals, and in books ...
Normandy Sherwood

Sherwood, Normandy Raven

Normandy Raven Sherwood is a theater maker: playwright, costumer, director, performer. In addition to the National Theater of the United States of America, Normandy makes work with her band / theater ...

Shirane, Haruo

Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, is the author and editor of over 20 books ...

Shirky, Clay

Clay Shirky holds a joint appointment at NYU, as Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program and Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the ...

Shirotori, Natsu

Natsu Shirotori is a writer and editor based in Tokyo, Japan. Her work can be found in NEUT Magazine, CINRA, i-D Japan, and elsewhere.

Shoshan, Malkit

Malkit Shoshan works at the intersection of design and activism. She is the founding director of the architectural think tank Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST). FAST uses research ...

Shriver, Lionel

The author of numerous novels, Lionel Shriver received the Orange Prize for We Need to Talk about Kevin (2006), which was adapted into a film by Lynne Ramsay in 2011. Shriver deploys her sarcastic ...

Shrum, Robert

Robert M. Shrum is the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at the University of Southern California and author of No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner (2007). A ...

Shure, Charles La

Charles La Shure is an assistant professor of Korean language and literature at Seoul National University. He is the translator of Young-ha Kim’s Black Flower (2012) and Kim Namcheon’s Scenes from ...
Benjamin Siegel

Siegel, Benjamin

Benjamin Siegel is an assistant professor of history at Boston University and the author of Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is ...

Siegel, Jonah

Jonah Siegel, Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author, most recently, of Overlooking Damage: Art, Display, and Loss in Times of Crisis (Stanford University Press ...

Silber, Maia

Maia Silber is a PhD candidate at Princeton University.

Simmonds, Alecia

Alecia Simmonds is an interdisciplinary scholar in law and history at the University of Technology Sydney and New York University – Sydney. She is the author of the award-winning book Wild Man ...
Bryant Simon

Simon , Bryant

Bryant Simon is a professor of history at Temple University. He is currently writing a history of the public bathroom in the United States.
Ed Simon

Simon, Ed

Ed Simon is a staff writer at The Millions. His book An Alternative History of Pittsburgh (2021) is available from Belt Publishing. Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology (2022) will be ...

Simone, AbdouMaliq

AbdouMaliq Simone is senior professorial fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, and Honorary Professor at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.

Sincox, Bailey

Bailey Sincox is a Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows. She is currently writing a book about female revenge in Shakespearean drama and contemporary film. Beyond ...

Singerman, David

Before he joined the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of history and American studies, David Singerman co-organized the progressive advocacy group Indivisible Charlottesville. He ...

Singh, Vineeta

Vineeta Singh teaches in the Interdisciplinary Studies program at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where she is part of the 62% of instructional employees who are non–tenure track faculty ...
Bhrigupati Singh

Singh, Bhrigupati

Bhrigupati Singh is an assistant professor of anthropology at Brown University. He is the author of Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India (2015) and the ...

Sinitiere, Phillip Luke

Phillip Luke Sinitiere is a professor of history at the College of Biblical Studies, a predominately African American school located in Houston’s Mahatma Gandhi District. A scholar of American ...

Sinykin, Dan

Dan Sinykin is an assistant professor of English at Emory University.

Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is a public-health historian of South Asia with a focus on the politics of health, medicine, and science in the global South. She is an associate professor of sociomedical ...
A. K. M. Skarpelis

Skarpelis, A. K. M.

A. K. M. Skarpelis is a sociologist and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where she is affiliated with the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for ...

Slaughter, Justin

Justin Slaughter is a critic and journalist living in Brooklyn.

Slavet, Eliza

Eliza Slavet is the author of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question (Fordham University Press, 2009); she is currently working on a book on philosemitism.

Sligar, Sara

Sara Sligar is a novelist and a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in 20th-century American fiction, film, and television. Her dissertation examines the rise ...
Mona Sloane

Sloane, Mona

Mona Sloane is a sociologist working on design and inequality, specifically in the context of AI design and policy. She is a senior research scientist at the NYU Center for Responsible AI, an adjunct ...
Vanessa Smith

Smith, Vanessa

Vanessa Smith is a professor of English at the University of Sydney. Her most recent books are Intimate Strangers (2010) and, as coeditor, Mutiny and Aftermath (2013). Her current research uses ...
Matthew Smith

Smith, Matthew J.

Matthew J. Smith is Professor of Caribbean History at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in Jamaica.

Smith, Lytton

Lytton Smith is the author, most recently, of While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It (2013). He writes a monthly column on British poetry for the Los Angeles ...

Smith, Namara

Namara Smith is an associate editor at n+1 and a contributing editor at Public Books.
Caleb Smith

Smith, Caleb

Caleb Smith is a professor of English and American studies at Yale University. His books include The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press, 2009) and The Oracle and the Curse ...

Smith, Terry

Terry Smith is an Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, and Distinguished Visiting Professor ...
Jackson Smith

Smith, Jackson

Jackson Smith is a doctoral candidate in American studies at New York University. His dissertation explores the politics of policing and spatial dimensions of urban inequality in Philadelphia through ...

Snorton, C. Riley

C. Riley Snorton is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, where his research and teaching focus on black cultural production and queer and transgender theory ...

Snyder, Katherine V.

Katherine V. Snyder is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where her current work focuses on contemporary fiction, with a particular interest in post ...
Richard Jean So

So, Richard Jean

Richard Jean So is an assistant professor of English and Cultural Analytics at McGill University. He specializes in data science and computational approaches to the humanities, American literature ...
Alisa Solomon

Solomon, Alisa

Alisa Solomon, a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, has written for The Nation, the New York Times, NewYorker.com, The Forward, American Theater, Theater, and TDR ...
Min Hyoung Song

Song, Min Hyoung

Min Hyoung Song is a professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American (Duke University Press, 2013) and Strange ...
Sandeep Soni

Soni, Sandeep

Sandeep Soni earned his doctorate in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021. His primary research is in using computational methods to model language change and social ...

Sorett, Josef

Josef Sorett is an associate professor of religion and African American studies at Columbia University, where he also directs the Center on African-American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social ...

Sorman, Joy

After writing the story of a butcher in love with a cow in Comme une bête (2012; Like a Beast), Joy Sorman published La Peau de l’ours (2014; The Skin of the Bear). This fable-like novel follows the ...

Sosa, Claudia Sofia

Claudia Sofia Sosa procrastinates by cooking, which is why she’s now a great cook who struggles to write. She was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, and has since lived in New York, Chiang Mai ...
Christina Soto van der Plas

Soto van der Plas, Christina

Christina Soto van der Plas is an assistant professor of Hispanic studies at the University of California, Riverside. She has published in academic volumes on Latin American literature ...
Juliana Spahr

Spahr, Juliana

Juliana Spahr is a poet and a scholar. Her most recent book is Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (Harvard University Press, 2018).

Spaide, Christopher

Christopher Spaide is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard University. His essays and reviews have appeared in Boston Review, the New Yorker online, and Slate.
Daphne Spain

Spain, Daphne

Daphne Spain taught in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia for 30 years. During that time, she wrote multiple articles and ...

Spanakos, Anthony Peter

Anthony Peter Spanakos is Associate Professor of Political Science and Law at Montclair State University. He has been a Fulbright visiting professor (Brazil, 2002; Venezuela, 2008) and is co-editor ...

Sparrow, Jeff

Jeff Sparrow is a writer, broadcaster, and editor. His books include No Way but This: In Search of Paul Robeson (2017), Money Shot: A Journey into Porn and Censorship (2012), Killing: Misadventures ...

Speltz, Mark

Mark Speltz is an author and public historian who researches and writes about civil rights–era photography, vernacular architecture, and Wisconsin culture and history. Currently a Senior Historian ...
Rochelle Spencer

Spencer, Rochelle

Rochelle Spencer is author of AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction (Routledge, 2019) and coeditor, with Jina Ortiz, of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University ...
Joshua Sperling

Sperling, Joshua

Joshua Sperling teaches film and literature at Oberlin College. His first book, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger (Verso, 2018), has been translated into Korean, complex and ...
Nicole Spigner

Spigner, Nicole A.

Nicole A. Spigner is an assistant professor of African American literature and culture in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. Her book project “Niobe Repeating: ...

Spiotta, Dana

In Eat the Document (2006; recently translated into French by Élodie Leplat), the novelist and Guggenheim Fellow Dana Spiotta tells the story of Mary Whittaker, a militant anti-Vietnam activist ...

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, at Columbia University.

Spragins, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Spragins is Assistant Professor in Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross. She earned her PhD in Iberian and Latin American Cultures from Stanford University in 2017. She is the author of ...

Spry, Adam

Adam Spry (White Earth Ojibwe) is a PhD candidate in English literature at Columbia University. His dissertation examines transnationalism in Ojibwe writing and thought.

Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan is an assistant professor of English at Rice University, where she works on contemporary Asian American and South Asian Anglophone literatures and cultural theory. She has ...

Sriram, Aditi

Aditi Sriram’s writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, Guernica and other publications. She lives in New York City and teaches at SUNY Purchase. Read about her mother and similes ...

Stadler, Gustavus

Gustavus Stadler is the author of Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life (Beacon Press, 2020) and Troubling Minds (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). His writing has appeared in Al Jazeera, Social Text ...

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The editorial staff of Public Books.

Stan, Corina

Corina Stan is an associate professor of comparative literature at Duke University. She is the author of The Art of Distances (2018) and of essays published in The Point, Aeon, LA Times, and other ...

Stanage, Ronald

Ronald Stanage grew up in the bleak shadow of a neighborhood bomb manufacturing facility. With nothing much to do beside doodle on napkins and play the banjo, his only connection to the outside world ...

Stanley, Eric A.

Eric A. Stanley is a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Communication at the University of California San Diego and is the editor of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial ...
James Stanley

Stanley, James P.

James P. Stanley is a media scholar and theater artist and a founder of the National Theater of the United States of America, with whom he works a as a writer, director, designer, and performer. In ...

Stecopoulos, Harilaos

Harilaos Stecopoulos is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. His most recent book, Telling America’s Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy, appeared from ...
Philip Steer

Steer, Philip

Philip Steer teaches English at Massey University in New Zealand. His research focuses on the intersections of literary culture, economics, and environments in colonial New Zealand and Australia. He ...

Stein, Jordan Alexander

Jordan Alexander Stein teaches at Fordham University and tweets @steinjordan.

Stein, Ulrike

Ulrike Stein is an economist. Since March 2010 she has been head of the Economic Policy Advice and Model Simulation unit at the Hans-Boeckler Foundation Macroeconomic Policy Institute. She holds a ...

Stein, Joal

Joal Stein is a writer, independent curator, and strategist investigating spatial and social power through contemporary culture—working across art, architecture, poetry, planning, and social ...

Stein, Arlene

Arlene Stein is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, where she directs the Institute for Research on Women. Her latest book is Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity ...
Justin Steinberg

Steinberg, Justin

Justin Steinberg teaches Italian literature at the University of Chicago and edits the journal Dante Studies. He is the author of Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval ...
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg

Steinberg, Amanda Hannoosh

Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg is the visual resources librarian for Islamic art and architecture at the Harvard University Fine Arts Library and a scholar of medieval Arabic popular literature. Her ...

Steinitz, Rebecca

Rebecca Steinitz is a literacy consultant in Boston-area urban high schools. She writes regularly about books and sundry topics for The Boston Globe, The Women’s Review of Books, The Rumpus, The ...

Stephan, Megan

Megan Stephan is a continuing lecturer in the Department of English and serves as faculty coordinator for Writing in the English Majors and the Professional Writing Minor at the University of ...
Lynn Stephen

Stephen, Lynn

Lynn Stephen is Philip H. Knight Chair, professor of anthropology, and graduate faculty in Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research centers on immigration ...
Michelle Stephens

Stephens, Michelle

Michelle Stephens, professor of English and Latino and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, is the author of Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer (Duke ...

Stephenson, Sam

Sam Stephenson’s next book, Gene Smith’s Sink, will be published in August by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A North Carolina native and longtime resident of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Stephenson ...
Simon Stern

Stern, Simon

Simon Stern is Associate Professor of Law and English at the University of Toronto. He is co-editor (with Nan Goodman) of the Ashgate Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century ...
Mitchell L. Stevens

Stevens, Mitchell L.

Mitchell L. Stevens is professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology at Stanford University, where he also co-leads the Stanford Pathways Lab. He is the author of Creating a Class: College ...

Stevens, Hallam

Hallam Stevens is an associate professor of history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Associate Director of the NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity. His research ...

Stevens, Benjamin Eldon

Benjamin Eldon Stevens is co-editor of Classical Traditions in Science Fiction (2015) and the author of Silence in Catullus (2013) as well as essays on the classics, linguistics, the history of the ...

Stevenson, Christina

Christina Stevenson earned her PhD from UC Santa Cruz. She is currently revising her dissertation, “The Politics of the Room: Sexuality and Subjectivity in the Modernist Text,” for publication.
Chelsea Stieber

Stieber, Chelsea

Chelsea Stieber is an associate professor of French and francophone studies at the Catholic University of America. She is the author of Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and ...

Stimpson, Catharine R.

Catharine R. Stimpson is University Professor at New York University and Dean Emerita of its Graduate School of Arts and Science. Her most recent book is Critical Terms for the Study of Gender ...

Stofle, Corine

Corine Stofle is a PhD candidate in the French Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests include Franco-Caribbean literatures and matters of humor and race.
Natasha Stovall

Stovall, Natasha

Natasha Stovall is a clinical psychologist in New York City working with adults, adolescents, and children. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice ...
Ben Streeter

Streeter, Ben

Ben Streeter has written for World Literature Today, the Modernist Review, and the Honest Ulsterman. He is a graduate student at George Washington University and an editor for the Pew Charitable ...

Stroh, Lauren

Lauren Stroh is a writer and visual artist based in New Orleans, LA where she is currently working on an undergraduate degree in Cultural Studies at Loyola University New Orleans. She has just begun ...

Stromquist , Shelton

Shelton Stromquist is a historian and a lifelong labor and civil rights activist. He is author or editor of seven books, including Frontiers of Labor, Reinventing “The People”, and Labor’s Cold War ...

Struhl, Abigail

Abigail Struhl is a graduate student in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley. She edits the Public Streets series for Public Books.

Stryker, Susan

Susan Stryker is Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies and Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies ...

Subramaniam, Banu

Banu Subramaniam is professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of ...
Thomas Sugrue

Sugrue, Thomas J.

Thomas J. Sugrue is a professor of social and cultural analysis and history at New York University, where he also directs the NYU Cities Collaborative. His eight books include the Bancroft ...
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, PhD, is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love (2015). She is an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.

Sultan, Niv M.

Niv M. Sultan is a writer based in New York and a former Public Books editorial intern.

Summers, Brandi Thompson

Brandi Thompson Summers is an assistant professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research and teaching focus on race, urban aesthetics, media, and visual culture ...
Ibrahim Sundiata

Sundiata, Ibrahim

Ibrahim Sundiata is emeritus professor of African/Afro-American studies and history at Brandeis University. His interests are social justice in comparative perspective as reflected through the prisms ...

Suny, Ronald Grigor

Ronald Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. distinguished university professor emeritus of history and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Michigan. He is also emeritus ...

Surkis, Judith

Judith Surkis is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University and specializes in modern European history, with an emphasis on France and the French Empire, gender and sexuality, and ...

Sussman, Charlotte

Charlotte Sussman is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713–1833 and Eighteenth-Century ...

Swift, Daniel

Daniel Swift’s most recent book is The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017). He teaches at the New College of the Humanities in London.

Szalay, Michael

Michael Szalay is professor of English and film and media at the University of California, Irvine. He’s published widely on 20th-century literature, culture, and politics. His most recent book is ...

Szetela, Adam

Adam Szetela is a visiting fellow in the history department at Harvard University and an associate lecturer in the English department at Curry College. His recent work appears in the Los Angeles ...