The Criterion Collection
Nataleah Hunter-Young is assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and international programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival, responsible for feature selections from Africa and Arab West Asia.
Ife Olujobi is a Brooklyn-based playwright and editor. Their play Jordans was produced at the Public Theater and won a 2025 Obie Award for playwriting. She has been an artist-in-residence at Ars Nova, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Ensemble Studio Theater,...
Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, which was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine,...
Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in film studies from the University of Iowa. He specializes in Hong Kong action cinema, contemporary South...
Ramona Wray is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Queen’s University Belfast and the coauthor of Great Shakespeareans: Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli, published as part of the Arden Shakespeare series.
Miriam J. Petty is an associate professor in the department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. Her award-winning book Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood explores the limits and possibilities of Black stardom.
Harmony Holiday is the author of several collections of poetry and numerous essays on music and culture. Her collection Maafa came out in April 2022.
Mariah Larsson is a professor of film studies at Linnaeus University in Sweden. She is the author of A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020). Among her other publications are The...
Vikram Murthi is a contributing writer to the Nation and the editor of Downtime magazine. His freelance film writing has appeared in Filmmaker, Reverse Shot, Vulture, and sundry other publications.
Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the prix Médicis étranger. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in publications including the New Yorker,...