Session 2

Catherine Kearns specializes in Mediterranean archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Her research and fieldwork focus on the intersections of environmental and social history and the material culture of rural sites. She has co-edited with Sturt W.

Martha Feldman is a specialist in vocal musics from 1500 to the present.

Benjamin Callard has published articles in the philosophy of mathematics and teaches courses in a wide range of subjects—most recently, the philosophy of religion and the metaphysics and ethics of death. He is an Instructional Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the College at the University of Chicago.

Vu Tran is a novelist and short story writer whose research interests include the craft and aesthetics of fiction writing, genre, and migration narratives. His recent creative work explores the immigrant narrative through the framework of popular genre fiction. He is the author of the novel, Dragonfish (Norton, 2015), and his short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the O.

Rachel DeWoskin is the award-winning author of five novels: Someday We Will Fly (Penguin Random House, 2019); Banshee (Dottir Press, 2019); Blind (Penguin Random House, 2015); Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011); Repeat After Me (The Overlook Pr

Lina Ferreria Cabeza-Vanegas is the author of Drown Sever Sing (Anomalous Press, 2015) and Don’t Come Back (Ohio State Press, 2017), and the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology The Great American Essay and the forthcoming 100 Refutations hybrid anthology from Mad Creek Books.

Clifford Ando is an historian of religion, law and government in the ancient world. His first book, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (University of California Press, 2013), won the Society for Classical Studies' Goodwin Award of Merit.