Session 3

Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare (Omnidawn Press, 2015). Her recent poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2021, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review, and have been supported by a Stegner Fellowship and a Fulbright grant. Since 2014, Ross has been collaborating with the poet Huang Fan on the first collection of his work in English translation, excerpts of which have appeared in Chicago Review, POETRY, and A Public Space.

Augustus Rose is a fiction writer interested in the hidden and unmapped areas of American culture and cities. His novel The Readymade Thief (Viking/Penguin 2017) explores a shadowy world of urban exploration, the dark net, consciousness-obliterating psychedelics, the art of Marcel Duchamp, and the shotgun marriage of alchemy and string theory.

Rachel Cohen is the author of Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels (FSG, 2020); Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade (Yale University Press, 2013); and A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of Writers and Artists (Random House, 2004), winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award.

Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas.

Allyson Nadia Field is a scholar of film history with a focus on African American cinema, historiography, the archive, and film and social justice. She is the author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film & The Possibility of Black Modernity (Duke University Press, 2015).

Philip V. Bohlman most recently published the second, revised edition of World Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee (Bloomsbury Press, 2021).