The Hindenburg

Jericho Brown is the author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National...

Violet Lucca is the author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials. She intermittently updates her newsletter, A Closer Lucca, and is working on her audacious return to podcasting.

Danielle Amir Jackson is a Memphis-born writer and the former editor of Oxford American. She is writing a book about women in the blues.

Cecilia Cenciarelli is in charge of the research and special projects department at the Cineteca di Bologna, where she has been working as an archivist since 2000. For several years, she has supervised the digitization, cataloguing, and research for Charles...

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...

Aboubakar Sanogo is an associate professor in film studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is currently writing on the history of documentary in Africa and the cinema of Med Hondo. He was instrumental in establishing the African Film Heritage...

Art historian Elisa Lozano is the author and coauthor of several books about photography and Mexican film, including Tina Modotti: Una nueva mirada, 1929 and Manuel Fontanals: Escenógrafo del cine mexicano.

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,...

Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu is the chief editor and cofounder of Cinema Poetica, a collective of film critics, activists, and researchers in Indonesia. He lives in Jakarta and works as a freelance writer.

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...