Critics / Writers

Sarah Rose Nordgren is a poet, teacher, and multiform text artist. Her two books of poetry are Best Bones (2014), winner of the Agnes...

Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. She received her PhD in English and American...

Dr. Ignassen Mather engages in the study of history, literature, film and social communications, which led him to create a diet for the mind,...

Philip Metres is the author and translator of ten books and a handful of chapbooks, including The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and...

Natasha Ria El-Scari is a poet, performer, writer, Cave Canem fellow, 2016 Ragdale Residency recipient and educator for over a decade. Her poetry, academic...

William J. Simmons is Provost Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Southern California and Mellon Fellow in Women’s History at the New-York...

Nathaniel Popkin is the author of five books, including the new novel Everything is Borrowed (New Door Books), called “utterly absorbing” by the writer Robin Black,...

Anthony Haden-Guest is a writer, reporter and cartoonist. He was born in Paris, grew up in London and has long lived in New York....

Jennifer L. Knox is the author of four books of poems. Her work has appeared four times in the Best American Poetry series, as well as in The New York Times, The...

Beth Stephens, Ph.D. has been a filmmaker, performance artist, activist and educator for three decades. Stephens is the Founding Director of E.A.R.T.H. Lab at...

Georgios Papadopoulos combines economics and philosophy with institutional analysis and technology studies. His research gravitates around money and its socioeconomic functions. He holds a MSc in...

Rachel Klipa works for the Office of Public Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her current research pertains to New Deal post-office murals by industrial designer...

Wendy Call is a writer, editor, translator, and educator based in Seattle. She has served as Writer in Residence at two dozen institutions, including...

Bridget Lowe is the author of At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinksy (Carnegie Mellon University Press) and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, American...

Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. She was interviewed twice for this series, the second...