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Vaccaro, Jeanne

Jeanne Vaccaro is a postdoctoral fellow in gender studies at Indiana University, where she teaches a course at the Kinsey Institute on queer archives. She is the curator of “Bring Your Own Body,” an ...

Vadde, Aarthi

Aarthi Vadde is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University. She is completing a book called “Chimeras of Form” about literary modernism’s relationship to colonial and contemporary ...

Vaidhyanathan, Siva

Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of The Googlization of Everything—and Why We Should Worry (2011).

Vaidya, Anjali

Anjali Vaidya is a freelance writer and graduate student, based out of Bangalore, India, and Irvine, California. She has written in the past for Tehelka, The Caravan, and the Los Angeles Review of ...

Vaillancourt, Eva

Eva Vaillancourt graduated from Barnard College in 2012, and is now working for the City of New York.

Vajpeyi, Ananya

Ananya Vajpeyi is an Associate Fellow with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, and a Global Ethics Fellow with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New ...

Valint, Alexandra

Alexandra Valint is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. She teaches and writes on Victorian literature, children’s and young adult literature, the gothic, and ...

VanDeCarr, Paul

Paul VanDeCarr is a nonprofit writer, editor, and trainer; an arts writer; a puppetry presenter; and a maker of video and audio projects. He lives in New York City.

Varón González, Carlos

Carlos Varón González is an assistant professor in Hispanic studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of La retirada del poema: Literatura hispánica e imaginación política ...

Varzi, Roxanne

Roxanne Varzi is a writer, anthropologist, filmmaker, and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Warring Souls: ...

Venayre, Sylvain

Sylvain Venayre is a French historian and professor of contemporary history at the Université Grenoble Alpes. His research focuses on the history of representations of time and space, as well as the ...

Vendryes, Thomas

Thomas Vendryes did his doctoral work at the Paris School of Economics (EHESS) and at the Beijing Normal University. He is now a post-doctoral fellow at the ADIS (Université Paris Sud), where he ...

Venkat, Bharat Jayram

Bharat Jayram Venkat is currently an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Oregon; starting in July 2019, he will be an assistant professor at UCLA’s Institute ...

Venkatasubramanian, Govindan

Govindan Venkatasubramanian holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Pondicherry. He works as a sociologist in the Department of Social Sciences at the French Institute of Pondicherry (India) ...

Venkatesh, Sudhir

Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology and the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. From 2009-2011, he was Senior Research Advisor to the Office of the Director ...

Venuti, Lawrence

Lawrence Venuti translates from Italian, French, and Catalan. He is, most recently, the author of Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic (2019), the editor of The Translation Studies Reader ...

Vergara, José

José Vergara is assistant professor of Russian on the Myra T. Cooley Lectureship at Bryn Mawr College. His interviews and other writing can also be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary ...

Vergara, Camilo José

Camilo José Vergara was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2002, served as a Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellow at the New York Public Library in 2007–2008, and received a Berlin ...

Verhoeven, Deb

Deb Verhoeven is Professor and Chair of Media and Communication at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Jane Campion (2009) and is currently writing a book on serendipity ...

Vernon, James

James Vernon is the author, most recently, of Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (2014) and the forthcoming Cambridge History of Britain Since 1750. He teaches at the University of ...

Vertesi, Janet

Janet Vertesi is associate professor of sociology at Princeton University, where she is an expert in the relationship between technology and society. An ethnographer with NASA’s robotic space ...

Vetter, Michael

Michael Vetter is a doctoral candidate in 20th-century American art history at the University of Maryland, College Park and a curatorial research fellow at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ...

Vincent, J. Keith

J. Keith Vincent teaches Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University. Together with Alan Tansman he has co-edited a selection of new essays on Sōseki, originally written in English, that ...

Vinokour, Maya

Maya Vinokour is an assistant professor in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU, where she studies Soviet labor culture, science fiction and film, and post-Soviet media. Her book ...

Vint, Sherryl

Sherryl Vint is Professor of Science Fiction Media Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where she co-directs the Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies program. An editor of the ...

Vitzthum, Virginia

Virginia Vitzthum has written for publications including Elle, Ms, the Village Voice, WashingtonPost.com, AlterNet.org, Time Out New York, and Salon.com, where she was a columnist. She is the author ...

Volpp, Leti

Leti Volpp is the Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, where she researches questions of immigration, citizenship, and identity. Her most recent publication is “The ...

von Mücke, Dorothea E.

Dorothea E. von Mücke is Professor of Germanic Languages at Columbia University and the author, most recently, of The Practices of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Authorship and the Public (2015) ...

Voyles, Katherine

Katherine Voyles, a PhD in English, writes on issues of national defense in culture and the cultures of national defense. Her most recent work for Public Books was “America Learns What Russia Knew.”

Vukovic, Kristin

Kristin Vukovic is a writer and editor based in New York City. Her writing has appeared in BBC Travel, The Daily Beast, Condé Nast Traveller India, Culture, and Connecticut Review, among others ...