The Criterion Collection
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.
Born in 1981, Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published four books, including Trans: A Memoir (2015) and a short story collection, Variations (2021). Her fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared in numerous publications,...
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...
Barry Michael Cooper is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. He wrote the films New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim. Cooper also worked as a writer and supervising producer on Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It....
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,...
F. Ron Miller is a freelance graphic designer who lives and works in Los Angeles.
Matthew B. Karush is a professor of history at George Mason University. He is a specialist in modern Argentine history and the author of several books, including Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music (Duke University Press,...