Szu-Yun Hsu has a PhD in Geography from the University of British Columbia, and is currently based in New York City. She holds a master’s in Geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her scholarly interests include international political economy, geopolitical economy, hegemony, state theory, neoliberalism, critical geopolitics, nationalism, populism, and democratization. […]

Michael Stone-Richards is currently Chair of the Committee on Critical Studies and Professor in the College for Creative Studies in Detroit where he teaches Critical Theory and Critical Studies. He is completing a book on social and spatial practices called Care of the City: Ruination, Abandonment, and Hospitality in Contemporary Practice. An earlier book Logics […]

Matthew Steinfeld received his doctorate in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, and completed pre and postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University’s School of Medicine. He has been a Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a Psychoanalytic Fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. […]

Dora Zhang is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a BA in philosophy from the University of Toronto. Her research interests are in Anglo-French modernist fiction and history of philosophy, as well as history of science and visual culture. She […]

Stephanie Rosen is a librarian scholar who brings insights from disability studies (and its intersections with feminist, queer, and critical race studies) into library administration and digital education. She is Associate Librarian and Accessibility Specialist at the University of Michigan Library and holds a PhD in English from University of Texas at Austin. Her work […]

Jamie Parra is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he studies and writes about 19th- and 20th-century American Literature, slavery, narrative theory, and sexuality studies.  He is completing a dissertation entitled “Prisoners of Style: Slavery, Ethics, and the Lives of American Literary Characters.”

S. Pearl Brilmyer is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon and postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin and has been a visiting scholar in the department of Comparative Literature at NYU and the department […]

Adeola Enigbokan is an artist, writer and urbanist based in New York City.  She holds a PhD in Environmental Psychology from the City University of New York, where she completed her doctoral dissertation on urbanism and critical archival practices in contemporary Russian art. She also holds an MPhil in Anthropology and Historical Studies from The New School for Social […]

Lindsay Caplan holds a Ph.D. in Art History from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she wrote her dissertation about early computer art in 1960s Italy. She holds an MA in Sociology from Queens College and a BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University. She has been awarded fellowships from The CUNY […]

Mathura Umachandran is a fifth year graduate student in the Classics department at Princeton University. She holds a BA in Classics from Wadham College, Oxford and an MA in Reception of the Ancient World from University College London. Her doctoral work focuses on the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in the thought of two German-Jewish refugee […]