Imani Perry
Imani Perry, born in Birmingham, Alabama, is a renowned American interdisciplinary scholar specializing in race, law, literature, and African American […]
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Katherine A. Bussard
Katherine A. Bussard is a curator, scholar, and collaborator. She serves as the Peter C. Bunnell Senior Curator of Photography.
Hélène aji
Hélène Aji is Chair Professor of American literature at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the director of research center UMR 8241
Rashida k. braggs
Rashida K. Braggs is Chair and the Amos Lawrence Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College. Her book Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris investigates the migratory experiences of African American jazz musicians in 1946-1963 Paris.
Max Cavitch
Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English and Co-director of Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also edits the award-winning blog, Psyche on Campus. His books include American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (Minnesota 2007) and Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present (Routledge 2025). He is the editor of Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days (Oxford
Sala Patterson
Sala Elise Patterson is a researcher and writer of overlooked stories, especially of the African Diaspora. A former magazine editor,
Zahid R. Chaudhary
Zahid R. Chaudhary is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. His book, Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth will be
Gish Jen
Gish Jen’s short stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories five times, including in The Best American
Mykola Riabchuk
Mykola Riabchuk was acclaimed in Ryszard Kapuscinski’s Imperium as “one of several excellent Ukrainian essayists.” A denizen of the west
Isabelle Laban-Dal Canto
Isabelle Laban-Dal Canto oversees a network of museums in rural departments of France, housing a variety of collections: prehistoric and