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Wade, Lisa

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. In addition to dozens of research papers, chapters, and essays, she is the coauthor of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions (2015) ...

Wagner, Laura

Laura Wagner is a writer, archivist, and anthropologist. She is the author of a young adult novel about the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go (Amulet, 2015). Her writing has ...

Wainwright, Joel

Joel Wainwright is a professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University, where he teaches about political economy, environmental change, and social theory. Along with Climate Leviathan ...

Wald, Gayle

Gayle Wald is the author of It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power TV (2015) and Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (2007). She teaches ...

Wald, Priscilla

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Chair of English at Duke University, is the author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (2008) and Constituting Americans: Cultural ...

Waldman, Adelle

The reporter and columnist Adelle Waldman published her highly acclaimed debut novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., in 2013 (recently translated into French by Anne Rabinovitch). With finesse and ...

Walker, Kyle

Kyle Walker is a writer based in Anchorage, Alaska, where he lives with his wife. He loves that one song by Toto. He hates Earl Grey with too much bergamot.

Walkowitz, Rebecca L.

Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Associate Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on transnational and multilingual approaches to ...

Wall, Cynthia

Cynthia Wall is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (1998) and The Prose of Things: Transformations of ...

Wallace, Lee

Lee Wallace is an associate professor in gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney. Her latest book is Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage (Duke University Press, 2020).

Wallack, Nicole B.

Nicole B. Wallack, PhD, is the Director of Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program. She writes and teaches on American literature, writing pedagogy, educational history, and the essay ...

Walley, Christine

Christine Walley is an associate professor of anthropology at MIT. She is the author of Exit Zero: Family and Class in Post-Industrial Chicago (2013) and is making a companion documentary film, also ...

Walsh, Keri

Keri Walsh is the editor of James Joyce’s Dubliners (2016) and The Letters of Sylvia Beach (2010). She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Fordham University in New York.

Walton, Jean

Jean Walton is a professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, where she teaches modernism, film, and gender studies. She is the author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis ...

Wampole, Christy

Christy Wampole is an essayist and an associate professor of French at Princeton University. She has published three books: Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France ...

Wang, Xiaowei

Xiaowei Wang is a writer, designer, and coder. In their role as creative director at Logic Magazine, their work encompasses community-based and public art and tech projects. They are working toward a ...

Wang, Pu

Pu Wang is associate professor of Chinese literature and chair of comparative literature at Brandeis University. He received his PhD in comparative literature from NYU, in 2012. His books include The ...

Ware, Lawrence

Lawrence Ware is codirector of the Africana studies program and teaching assistant professor and diversity coordinator in the department of philosophy at Oklahoma State University. He is a ...

Warner, John

John Warner is the author of Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) and The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your ...

Warren, Kenneth W.

Kenneth W. Warren is the University of Chicago Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor. He is the author of What Was African American Literature?, So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the ...

Washington, John

John Washington is a novelist and translator currently based in Arizona. Follow him on Twitter at EndDeportations. Find more of his work at www.jblackburnwashington.com. Galen Trezise is a multi ...

Wasserman, Sarah

Sarah Wasserman is associate professor of English and associate director of the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. Her book, The Death of Things: Ephemera and the ...

Wasserstrom, Jeffrey

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is chancellor’s professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He has written extensively on protests and repression in China’s past, as well as many other topics ...

Waters, Lindsay

Lindsay Waters earned his PhD in 1976 at the University of Chicago with a dissertation on Byron and the Renaissance Italian epic. He was an editor at University of Minnesota Press from 1979 to 1984 ...

Watson, Jini Kim

Jini Kim Watson is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at New York University. She is the author of The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form ...

Watson, Tim

Tim Watson is professor of English at the University of Miami. He is the author of Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2018) and ...

Wayt, Theo

Theo Wayt is a journalism student at NYU and a former Public Books intern.

Weber, Nicole E.

Nicole E. Weber is a PhD candidate at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information and a research assistant at the AI Now Institute at New York University. Her research examines the social and ...

Wechsler, Mattie

Mattie Wechsler recently graduated from Bryn Mawr College and lives in Philadelphia.

Weekes, Omari

Omari Weekes is an assistant professor of English at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. His primary scholarly work thinks through the affective dimensions of sex and spirituality in 20th- and ...

Wehling-Giorgi, Katrin

Katrin Wehling-Giorgi completed her PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Oxford and is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. She is ...

Weintraub, Alex

Alex Weintraub is an art historian and critic based in New York City. He is currently working on a book examining the history of art at the French National Library.

Weisenfeld, Judith

Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her books include New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great ...

Weiss, Max

Max Weiss is Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptor and Assistant Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law ...

Weiss, Ivan

Ivan Weiss is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and teacher based in Durham, North Carolina. His work has spanned a variety of subjects, including experimental music, baseball, desegregation ...

Weiss, Hadas

Hadas Weiss is an anthropologist and a fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study. Her research centers on social aspects of financialization in Israel, Germany, and Spain. She is the author ...

Weiss, Robert S.

Robert S. Weiss is an emeritus professor in the department of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has written about loneliness, grief, and other consequences of relational loss ...

Weiss, Margot

Margot Weiss is associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University, where she directs the cluster in Queer Studies. Major publications include the award-winning ...

Weitz, Eric D.

Eric D. Weitz is Distinguished Professor of History at The City College of New York. His book, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (2007), was named an “Editor’s Choice” in the New York Times. His ...

Wekker, Gloria

Gloria Wekker is an Afro-Dutch cultural anthropologist with specializations in gender studies, sexuality, African American studies, and Caribbean studies. She was a professor in the department of ...

Wells, Katie J.

Katie J. Wells is an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC, which is ...

Weschler, Lawrence

Lawrence Weschler is an award-winning writer, journalist, and curator. Director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities of NYU, he is also a former staff writer at the New Yorker and ...

Whitaker , Kayla Rae

Kayla Rae Whitaker recently returned to her native Kentucky after seven years of living in New York City. She now lives in Louisville. Her debut novel, The Animators, was released by Random House on ...

White, Patricia

Patricia White is the Eugene Lang Research Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College and the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (1999) and ...

Whitney, Joel

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers. His writing appears in The New York Times, Baffler, Jacobin, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Whitney, Candice

Candice Whitney is a researcher, writer, and international-education professional, based in New Jersey. In 2016–17, as a Fulbright Scholar, she conducted research that explored how the diversity of ...

Whittaker, Meredith

Meredith Whittaker is the faculty director of the AI Now Institute at New York University, where she’s the Minderoo Research Professor. Her work focuses on the social implications of artificial ...

Whitted, Qiana

Qiana Whitted is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at University of South Carolina. A graduate of Hampton University with a PhD from Yale, her research focuses on African ...

Wichowski, Alexis

Alexis Wichowski serves as deputy chief technology officer for innovation for the City of New York and adjunct associate professor at Columbia University. Views expressed are her own.

Wiet , Elizabeth

Elizabeth Wiet is a PhD candidate in English at Yale University whose research explores the aesthetic and material conditions of avant-garde performance. She is currently completing a dissertation ...

Wiet, Victoria

Victoria Wiet is an assistant professor of English at DePauw University. She is currently at work on a book titled Theatrical License and the Pleasures of Victorian Fiction, which examines how the ...

Wilde, Matt

Matt Wilde is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He specializes in research on urban politics in Venezuela and the United Kingdom.

Wilf, Eitan

Eitan Wilf is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2010 ...

Wilkens, Matthew

Matthew Wilkens is associate professor of information science at Cornell University, where he works on data-intensive approaches to literary studies. He is the author of Revolution: The Event in ...

Wilkins, John

John Wilkins is a Senior Adjunct Professor in Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts. He is the theater critic at KQED Arts in San Francisco.

Williams, Jeffrey J.

Jeffrey J. Williams is a professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. For fall 2019, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the ...

Williams, Daniel

Daniel Williams is an assistant professor of literature at Bard College. He works on 19th-century British literature and contemporary South African literature. Recent articles have appeared in ELH ...

Wilson, Jennifer

Jennifer Wilson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her essays on Russian and African American writers have appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, The Atlantic ...

Wilson, William Julius

William Julius Wilson is Geyser University Professor at Harvard. A recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor bestowed in the United States, his many publications ...

Wilson, Brandy T.

A native Texan, Brandy T. Wilson teaches writing, literature, and gender & women’s studies at the University of Memphis and is the author of The Palace Blues, a finalist for the 2015 Lambda ...

Wilson, Cintra

Cintra Wilson, author of Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style, is originally from San Francisco, where she spent several years performing and writing for the stage. These writings begat ...

Wind, Maya

Maya Wind is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.

Wing, Carlin

Carlin Wing is an artist, media scholar, and assistant professor and chair of media studies at Scripps College. Her current book project, “Bounce: A History of Balls, Walls, and Gaming Bodies,” ...

Wingrave, David J.

David J. Wingrave is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program in fiction at NYU, where he was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. He currently teaches at The City University of New York.

Winstead, Ed

Ed Winstead is Coordinating Editor of Public Books and co-editor of Guernica Daily. His work has appeared in Literary Hub, Guernica, Hyperallergic, the Rumpus, the American Reader, and elsewhere ...

Winterbottom, Tom

Tom Winterbottom last wrote for Public Books about disaster capitalism and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He was the guest editor of a June 2018 special issue of the Peace Review journal on the ...

Witt, Emily

Emily Witt is the author of Future Sex (2016). She has written for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and n+1 and lives in Brooklyn. (Author photograph by Noah Kalina)

Wittenberg, David

David Wittenberg teaches English, comparative literature, and cinema at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and ...

Wohlstadter, Eric

Eric Wohlstadter is pursuing an MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he is the Iowa Arts Fellow.

Wolf-Meyer, Matthew

Matthew Wolf-Meyer is trained as a cultural anthropologist and social historian and is fixated on the history and contemporary practice of medicine and science in the US and the ways they naturalize ...

Wong, Amy R.

Amy R. Wong is an associate professor of English at Dominican University of California. She lives in Oakland and writes about Victorian literature, media theory, race, and coloniality.

Wong, Stephanie

Originally from the Chicago area and now living in Mexico City, Stephanie Wong is a writer, editor, artist, and graduate student. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Los Angeles ...

Wool, Zoë H. (ed.)

Zoë H. Wool is an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. Her current book manuscript, “Emergent Ordinaries: The ...

Wray, Matt

Matt Wray is an associate professor of sociology at Temple University. He is the author of Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (Duke University Press, 2006) and editor of ...

Wright, Erik Olin

Erik Olin Wright was educated at Harvard, Balliol College, Oxford, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his PhD in Sociology. He has taught sociology at the University of ...

Wright, Daniel

Daniel Wright is an associate professor of English at the University of Toronto and the author of Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

Wright, Esther

Esther Wright is a lecturer in digital history at Cardiff University, UK. She teaches, researches, and writes about historical videogames, promotional materials, and developer branding. Her first ...

Wu, Cynthia

Cynthia Wu is an associate professor of American studies in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). She is the author of Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original ...

Wu, Albert

Albert Wu is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the American University of Paris.

Wyman, Annie Julia

Annie Julia Wyman is a writer who lives on both coasts. She is an editor at McSweeney’s Publishing, as well as a doctoral candidate at Harvard, where she studies and teaches laughter and comedy.