Miranda Trimmier is an essayist who’s made homes in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, and Tucson. Her writing, which blends place-based history, critical commentary, and experimental memoir, has been shortlisted for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and published in Places Journal, The New Inquiry, Boom California, Terrain, and other outlets. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona […]

Yoni Kretzmer is a tenor saxophonist, composer, cantor and teacher of Judaic studies. His main interests are Free-Jazz, third-stream, the books of the prophets and Jewish philosophy and ethics.

Hannah Gadbois is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago; she holds an MA from Boston University. Her dissertation focuses on Soviet photomontage artists and their depictions of temporality in the early years of the Soviet Union. More broadly, her research follows ideas of progress, industrialization, labor time, and the […]

William Harris is a doctoral student in English literature at the University of Chicago, where he is at work on a cultural history of the postwar Midwest. He holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Minnesota, and was previously a Core Fellow in critical studies at the Museum of Fine Arts, […]

Alberto Toscano is the author of Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri(2025), Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords of an Interregnum(2023), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017, 2nd ed) and Cartographies of the Absolute (with J. Kinkle, 2015). He is the co-editor (with B. Noys) of Georges Bataille’s Critical Essays (3 […]

James C. Wagner is a translator of several works of contemporary German philosophy and literary scholarship and has worked as a German language instructor for the better part of two decades. He earned his Ph.D. at New York University having successfully defended his dissertation on Thomas Mann’s Reflections of an Un-Political Man and its anticipatory […]

Abdaljawad Omar is a writer and an Adjunct Professor at Birzeit University, where he teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies. He earned his PhD in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences from Birzeit University. His work engages with a range of fields, including political theory, decolonial thought, cultural criticism, and the intellectual history of Palestine. […]

Zachary Tavlin holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Washington. In addition to serving as Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, he teaches at the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is also Associate Editor at Wallace Stevens Journal. Zachary writes about […]

Gil Morejón, PhD, is a philosopher and historian of ideas. His research focuses on the history of metaphysics and critical philosophy, modern political theory, and contemporary political economy. He is the author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), and has translated several books on Spinoza. He currently teaches at Loyola University […]

Xafsa Ciise is a teacher and researcher. She is currently writing a dissertation on the history of trauma in the Western medical tradition.