The Criterion Collection
Gonzalo M. Pavés is a professor in the department of art history at the Universidad de La Laguna. His research interests include classical film, Spanish cinema, and comics. He has published several papers and chapters nationally and internationally and various...
Rebecca Gilman is a playwright whose work includes Swing State, Luna Gale, Boy Gets Girl, and Spinning Into Butter. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her play The...
Kaveh Akbar’s poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He has published two poetry collections—Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf—and is the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on...
Sue Harris is a UK film academic and the author of numerous articles, essays, and books on French films, filmmakers, and production practices. She is Professor Emerita of Film at Queen Mary University of London.
Samm Deighan is a film historian and programmer, the author of The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema, and the editor of Revolution in 35 mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the...
Pauline Chen is the author of the novels The Red Chamber and Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas. She has taught Chinese literature, language, and film at Oberlin College and the University of Minnesota.
McKenzie Wark is a professor of culture and media at the New School. She is the author of, among other things, Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotext(e)) and Raving (Duke University Press). Life Story, a short film she made in conversation with Jessica...
Jacqueline Avila is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Texas, Austin, specializing in film-music studies, sound studies, and the intersections of identity, tradition, and modernity in the musical cultures and new media of Mexico, Latin America, and...
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the best-selling memoir In the Dream House and the short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for a National Book Award. Her essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared...
Jonathan R. Lack is a PhD candidate in Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa, the host of the anime history and review podcast Japanimation Station, and the author of the book 200 Reviews. You can read his work at...