The Criterion Collection
Rebecca Traister is a journalist and the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger and All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.
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.
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.