Authors - Public Books

Tait, Allison

Allison Tait is legal historian of early modern France and England. Her work focuses on the rights of married women, property ownership, and inheritance law.

Tang, Lucia

Lucia Tang is a freelance writer with a background in premodern Chinese cultural history. Her work has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Electric Literature, and Slate, among other ...

Evan Taparata is a postdoctoral fellow in global American studies at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is presently at work on a book manuscript about how ...

Taussig, Michael

Michael Taussig, author of Mimesis and Alterity (1993), teaches anthropology at Columbia University. His recent work Palma Africana (2018) explores writing in relation to the metamorphic sublime.

Tavory, Iddo

Iddo Tavory is an assistant professor of sociology at NYU. His overarching interest is in the interactional patterns through which people come to construct and understand their lives. He is the ...

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of several books, including Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate ...

Taylor, Alex

Alex Taylor is a sociologist at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City, University of London. With a fascination for the entanglements between social life and machines, his research ...

Taylor, Rebecca

Rebecca Taylor lives in New York, where she studied fiction at Columbia University. Her work will be anthologized this fall in Read Harder: Five More Years of Great Writing from the Believer. She is ...

Teferra, Gerawork

Gerawork Teferra holds a master’s degree in development economics and has 17 years of experience in environmental protection, agriculture, and business. Since 2011, he has lived in Kakuma Refugee ...

Tenen, Dennis

Dennis Tenen writes and teaches in the fields of new media and digital humanities at Columbia University. His research often happens at the intersection of people, text, and technology. His recent ...

Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is Professor of History at the University of Chicago and Profesor Asociado at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City. He is the author, most recently ...

Teukolsky, Rachel

Rachel Teukolsky is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Her work focuses on the literatures and cultures of Victorian Britain, with special interests in the histories of ...

Teutsch, Matthew

Matthew Teutsch teaches English at Auburn University. He has published extensively on the life and work of Ernest J. Gaines in venues such as MELUS and Mississippi Quarterly. Currently, he is editing ...

Textor, Alex Robertson

Alex Robertson Textor lives in London, where he writes about travel. Twice a Society of American Travel Writers Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award winner as an editor of Travel by ...

Tharaud, Jerome

Jerome Tharaud is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University, where he teaches American literature and culture. He is the author of Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the ...

Thomas, Deborah A.

Deborah A. Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Political Life in ...

Thorsson, Courtney

Courtney Thorsson is an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon, where she teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature. She is the author of Women’s Work: ...

Thybony, Scott

Scott Thybony has traveled throughout North America on assignments for major magazines, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Men’s Journal. His interviews have ranged from astronauts to ...

Tien, Amanda

Amanda Tien recently graduated with a degree in creative writing from Columbia University, where she founded a magazine dedicated to the culinary arts (culinarianmagazine.com). She lives in ...

Tillet, Salamishah

Salamishah Tillet is an associate professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the ...

Tirres, Allison Brownell

Allison Brownell Tirres is associate dean of academic affairs and strategic initiatives and associate professor at DePaul University College of Law. She researches and writes in the areas of ...

Todd, Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn (Kay) Todd is completing her MA in English at McGill University. Her research uses digital humanities strategies to analyze contemporary social issues.

Todd III, William Mills

William Mills Todd III is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature at Harvard University, where he teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures. His ...

Tongson, Karen

Karen Tongson is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at University of Southern California and the author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). She is currently the series ...

Tooze, Adam

Adam Tooze teaches history at Columbia University, where he also directs the European Institute.

Topper, Ryan

Ryan Topper is a PhD candidate in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he studies postcolonial literature and critical theory. He is currently writing a dissertation on the ...

Torgovnick, Marianna

Marianna Torgovnick teaches at Duke University and directs the program Duke in New York: Arts and Media. Author of acclaimed books including Gone Primitive, Primitive Passions, and The War Complex ...

Torres-Rodríguez, Laura J.

Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez is associate professor of Latin American studies at New York University. She is the author of Orientaciones transpacíficas: La modernidad mexicana y el espectro de Asia ...

Toto, Zaka

Zaka Toto is a writer and publisher of the cultural review Zist. He is also a PhD student (’24) in history, working on the interactions of political identities and independence movements in the ...

Tracey, Caroline

Caroline Tracey grew up in Colorado. More recently she has lived in California and Kyrgyzstan, where she was a 2014–15 Fulbright research fellow. Her past writing about water in the West has appeared ...

Tranter, Kirsten

Dr. Kirsten Tranter is a visiting scholar in English at UC Berkeley. She publishes fiction, essays, journalism, and literary criticism, and is the author of three novels including The Legacy. Her ...

Tremblay, Jean-Thomas

Jean-Thomas Tremblay is a PhD student in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His research interests include the narratology and aesthetics of breathing in contemporary ...

Tresch, John

John Tresch is Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon ...

Treuer, David

David Treuer is the author of Little (1998). Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota and teaches literature at the University of Minneapolis.

Tu, Thuy Linh

Thuy Linh Tu is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. She is the author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion (Duke University Press ...

Turner, Henry S.

Henry S. Turner teaches English Renaissance literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts ...

Turner, Fred

Fred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author, most recently, of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World ...

Turrigiano, Gina

Gina Turrigiano is a professor of biology and neuroscience at Brandeis University, where she runs a research lab and teaches. She has published more than a hundred articles in the field of brain ...

Twidle, Hedley

Hedley Twidle was born in Johannesburg. He studied in KwaZulu-Natal, then at Oxford and York, and lived for several years in Edinburgh before taking up a post as lecturer in English at the University ...

Twilley, Stephen

Stephen Twilley was for many years the managing editor of Public Books, where he also served as a section editor for literature in translation. His own most recent translation is Curzio Malaparte’s ...

Tyson, Charlie

Charlie Tyson is a PhD candidate in English literature at Harvard University. His dissertation examines the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of idleness, from the late 19th century to the present.