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. Ando was co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (Oxford University Press, 2016). His recent work has focused on law and political economy in ancient empires and the forms of power exercised by ancient states. Future projects study the formation of the Roman community in Italy and a collaborative edition of surviving Roman laws. Currently, Ando is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished Service Professor and Chair in the Department of Classics Department at the University of Chicago.
Kağan Arık has 25 years’ experience in language pedagogy for modern Turkish language and literature and is interested in the historical development of the Turkic languages. As an anthropologist of Central Asia since 1987, Arık has investigated pre-Islamic elements in the culture of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia and Turkey. He has published works about the culture of the Kazak nomads in China, the oral literature of the Kirghiz, and on traditional healing among the Turkic peoples. Arık is the Ayaslı Associate Professor of Instruction in Modern Turkish and Turkic languages and coordinator for the Modern Turkish language program at the University of Chicago.
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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). He is the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music, as well as the Artistic Director of the Division of the Humanities’ ensemble-in-residence, the New Budapest Orpheum Society, at the University of Chicago.
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.
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. Her essays on artists and writers—their friendships, fallings out, and the work they make—have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Art in America, Apollo Magazine, McSweeney’s and Best American Essays. Cohen received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is Professor of Practice in the Arts in Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.
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 Press, 2009); and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton, 2005), about the years she spent in Beijing as the unlikely star of a Chinese soap opera. In 2020, DeWoskin's poetry collection, Two Menus, was published by the University of Chicago Press's Phoenix Poetry Series. Her awards include the National Jewish Book Award, Sydney Taylor Book Award, American Library Association's Alex Award, and Academy of American Poets Award. Three of her books, Foreign Babes in Beijing, Banshee, and Someday We Will Fly, are being developed for television. Her poems, essays, and articles have appeared in journals and anthologies including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets. DeWoskin is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature and an affiliated faculty member in Jewish Studies, East Asian Studies, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago.
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Martha Feldman is a specialist in vocal musics from 1500 to the present. She has published City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice (University of Chicago Press, 1995), Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in 18th-Century Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2007), and The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (University of California Press, 2015), and co-edited with Bonnie Gordon The Courtesan’s Arts (Oxford University Press, 2006) and with Judith T. Zeitlin The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Recently, Feldman has been working on the entanglements of voice with music historiography, race, and alterity and is writing a book called The Castrato Phantom: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome. She is the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music and Theater and Performance Studies and the College at the University of Chicago.
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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. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation work has been featured in various journals, including The Bellingham Review, The Chicago Review, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Poets & Writers, and the Sunday Rumpus. Ferreira received the Best of the Net and the Iron Horse Review’s Discovered Voices awards. She has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a Rona Jaffe fellow. Ferreira is Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.
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). Field is co-editor with Marsha Gordon of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019) and co-editor with Jan-Christopher Horak and Jacqueline Stewart of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (University of California Press, 2015). She was named a 2019 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a 2020–2021 ACLS/Burkhardt Residential Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Field is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and a faculty advisor for the new BA degree program in Inquiry and Research in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
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Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019); Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020); Infinite Regress (Bom Dia Books, 2021); and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis, forthcoming in the University of Chicago Press. He is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program.
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. Manning New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology (Cornell University Press, 2019) and is finalizing her first monograph, The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change forthcoming in Cambridge University Press. Kearns is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and the College at the University of Chicago
Robert L. Kendrick teaches courses on European music, 1500–1800, as well as on Latin American ethnomusicology. His research focuses on issues of the musically sacred in and out of Christian liturgy. His most recent book is Fruits of the Cross: Passiontide Music Theater in Vienna (University of California Press, 2019). Kendrick is the William Colvin Professor in the Departments of Music and Romance Languages and Literatures and the College at the University of Chicago.
Yi-Lu Kuo’s research interests are second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, reading strategies, language assessment, and curriculum design. Her work about reading strategy use and learning process of Chinese students can be found in the Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching (2014), and Journal of Chinese Teaching and Research in the U.S. (2012). Yi-Lu is Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
James F. Osborne is an archaeologist who studies the ancient Middle East. His research focus lies in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Turkey and surrounding regions and includes thematic interests in spatial analysis and the built environment, monumentality, and territoriality. Among other book projects, he is the author of The Syro-Anatolian City-States: An Iron Age Culture, recently published by Oxford University Press and the co-editor with Jonathan M. Hall of The Connected Iron Age: Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Osborne is Assistant Professor of Anatolian Archaeology at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute and in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Hervé Reculeau is a historian of Syria and Mesopotamia in the second millennium BCE. His research centers on the interaction between humans and their environment, irrigation practices and devices, and agricultural works and techniques. He is the Principal Investigator for the Humanities Without Walls sponsored project Coping with Changing Climates in Early Antiquity (Chicago-Michigan-Purdue). His publications relevant to the current topic are Climate, Environment and Agriculture in Assyria in the 2nd Half of the 2nd Millennium BCE (Harrassowitz, 2011) and Florilegium marianum XVI. L’agriculture irriguée au royaume de Mari: essai d’histoire des techniques (SEPOA, 2018). Reculeau is Associate Professor in the Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago.
David Rodowick is a specialist in philosophical aesthetics and the criticism and theory of contemporary art and cinema. His most recent books make the case for a philosophy of humanities whose modes of knowledge differ from that of the sciences. Rodowick is the author of nine books, including What Philosophy Wants from Images (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Philosophy’s Artful Conversation (Harvard University Press, 2014), and Elegy for Theory (Harvard University Press, 2014). His most recent book is An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Rodowick is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College at the University of Chicago.
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. Rose is Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.
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. She is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.
Among Haun Saussy’s books are The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Stanford University Press, 1994), Great Walls of Discourse (Harvard University Asia Center, 2002), The Ethnography of Rhythm (Fordham Press, 2016), Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford University Press, 2017), Are We Comparing Yet? (Bielefeld University Press, 2019), The Making of Barbarians: China in Multilingual Asia (forthcoming, 2022) and the edited collections Sinographies (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), and Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (University of California Press, 2010). He is University Professor at the University of Chicago, teaching in the Departments of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations as well as in the Committee on Social Thought.
Bart Schultz’s books include Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe (Cambridge University Press, 2004), the winner of the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History for 2004, and The Happiness Philosophers: Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians (Princeton University Press, 2017). He is currently working on a book on utilitarian environmental philosophy titled Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness forthcoming from Polity Books. Schultz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and Executive Director of the Civic Knowledge Project at the University of Chicago.
C. Riley Snorton is a cultural theorist who focuses on racial, sexual, and transgender histories and cultural productions. He is the co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and the author, editor, or co-editor of several volumes, including Saturation: Race, Art and the Circulation of Value (Cambridge: MIT Press/New Museum, 2020), Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), and Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Snorton is the Interim Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature with a joint appointment in the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago.
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Stephanie Soileau is the author of the short story collection Last One Out Shut Off The Lights (Little Brown & Co., 2020) and the novel Should The Waters Take Us forthcoming from Little, Brown & Co. Her work has also appeared in Glimmer Train, Oxford American, Ecotone, Tin House, New Stories from the South, and other journals and anthologies, and has been supported by fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, the Camargo Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature 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. Henry Prize Stories, the Best American Mystery Stories, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly, and other publications. The winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, he has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf. He is Associate Professor of Practice in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.
Kris Trujillo specializes in medieval Christian mysticism, Latinx literature, and queer theory. His writing has appeared in English Language Notes, postmedieval, and Representations. Currently, he is working on two book projects. The first examines the significance of the Divine Office to the genre of mystical poetry. The second tracks the concept of ecstasy from early Christianity to contemporary queer theory. Trujillo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
With a PhD in Curriculum and Instructions, Xiaorong Wang’s research focuses on the learning process of Chinese language learners within online space and multimodality. She is one of the authors of Tales of Chinese Teachers: Case Studies and Reflections from CFL Classrooms in North America (Beijing University Press, 2018) and Tradition and Transition: Teaching Chinese Culture Overseas (Beijing University Press, 2018). Xiaorong is an American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages Oral Proficiency Interview Certified Tester in Chinese. She is Assistant Instructional Professor of Chinese Language in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
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Wu Hung’s research encompasses traditional and contemporary Chinese art, with a new interest in connecting art of different times and places into complex narratives. He has written many books and numerous articles and curated more than 80 exhibitions around the world. Among his multiple awards and honors, he was selected as the 2018 Distinguished Scholar by the College Art Association and received an Honorary Degree from Harvard University in 2019 for his contributions to the arts. At the University of Chicago, he is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia.
Shan Xiang’s research interests are Chinese language testing and assessment; task-based language teaching curriculum design; extensive reading strategy; and vocabulary learning. She is a member of American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages and Chinese Language Teachers Associations Conference. Shan is Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University Chicago.
Yujia Ye’s teaching interest include advanced Chinese film course, Chinese music, and Chinese business. As a literature fan and an amateur English-Chinese translator, Yujia published her translation of Mark Twain’s essays in 2015. She is Assistant Instructional Professor in Chinese Language in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.