The Criterion Collection
Hamid Naficy is a professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film and the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, as well as a faculty member in Northwestern’s Middle East and North African Studies Program and Department...
Stephanie Dennison is a full professor of Brazilian studies and the director of the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Remapping Brazilian Film Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge,...
Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (2025), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University and...
Alexandra Hidalgo is an award-winning Venezuelan filmmaker, theorist, and editor whose documentaries have been official selections for film festivals in fourteen countries and screened at universities around the United States. Her videos and writing have been featured by the Hollywood...
So Mayer is the author of Truth & Dare (2023), A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (2020), Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (2015), and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (2009), and the coeditor of...
Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator whose third book of poetry, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Born in Minsk, Belarus, she teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian.
Ela Bittencourt works as a critic and curator in the U.S. and Brazil and consults for a number of international film festivals. She also runs the film site Lyssaria.
Lauren Groff is the author of five books. Her two most recent, the story collection Florida and the novel Fates and Furies, were both finalists for the National Book Award.
Moeko Fujii is a scholar and critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Aperture, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She writes a regular column on film for Orion magazine.
Carol Cooper is a New York City–based arts and culture critic who teaches as adjunct faculty at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music. She has published a book of critical essays titled Pop Culture Considered as an Uphill Bicycle...