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Zakes Mda is a visiting professor in the English department of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg; a creative-writing adjunct at Johns Hopkins University; and an emeritus professor of English at Ohio University.
Film journalist Craigh Barboza teaches at New York University and has written for Cineaste, Film Comment, and the Hollywood Reporter. His book John Singleton: Interviews, a study of the director’s work, is part of the series Conversations with Filmmakers (University...
Jason Wood is the executive director of public programs and audiences at the British Film Institute. A widely published author on cinema and popular culture, he has written on and interviewed Atom Egoyan numerous times. He is also the codirector,...
Edward Baron Turk is a professor emeritus of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books on the performing arts include Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard University Press), Hollywood Diva:...
Jordan Cronk is a film critic and founder of the Acropolis Cinema screening series in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight & Sound, and other publications. He is...
Odie Henderson is a film critic for RogerEbert.com and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He has contributed essays to such publications as Slate, Vulture, the Village Voice, and Slant Magazine, and has appeared on NPR’s Pop...
Elena Lazic is a French freelance film writer based in London, and the founder and editor of the online film magazine Animus. She has written for Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, MUBI’s Notebook, the Guardian, and Cahiers du cinéma,...
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the New York Times best-selling author of the critically acclaimed speculative novels Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Signal to Noise, Certain Dark Things, and The Beautiful Ones; the crime novel Untamed Shore, and the noir...
Andrew Hedden is associate director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and a PhD candidate in history at the University of Washington in Seattle.