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Christopher Newfield

Christopher Newfield is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. His most recent book is The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them.

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Rachel Fraser

Rachel Fraser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT.

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Jennifer C. Nash

Jennifer C. Nash is Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University and author of Birthing Black Mothers.

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Will Rinehart

Will Rinehart is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.

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Kate Soper

Kate Soper is Emerita Professor of Philosophy at London Metropolitan University. She has been an editorial collective member of Radical Philosophy and of New Left Review. Her most recent books are Post-Growth Living: for an Alternative Hedonism and the coedited volumes Citizenship and Consumption and The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently.

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Jackson Lears

Jackson Lears is Professor of History at Rutgers University and editor of Raritan. His latest book is Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality.

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Lida Maxwell

Lida Maxwell is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University.

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Justin Jannise

Justin Jannise is the author of How to Be Better by Being Worse (BOA Editions 2021), which won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. A recipient of the Inprint Verlaine Prize and a former Editor of Gulf Coast, Justin studied at Yale, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the University of Houston, and now teaches at Prairie View A&M University.

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Lynne Segal

Lynne Segal is Emerita Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a member of The Care Collective and contributor to The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence.

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Silvia Ivani

Silvia Ivani is a teaching fellow in philosophy at University College Dublin and a research member of PERITIA, an EU-funded project investigating public trust in expertise.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes

Catarina Dutilh Novaes is Professor of Philosophy and University Research Chair at VU Amsterdam and Professorial Fellow at Arché, University of St. Andrews. Her most recent book is The Dialogical Roots of Deduction.

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Jodi Dean

Jodi Dean is Professor of Politics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her most recent book is Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging. She is also coeditor, with Charisse Burden-Stelly, of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.

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Raisa Tolchinsky

Raisa Tolchinsky is a winner of the George Bennett Fellowship and the Henfield Prize for Fiction. Raisa earned her MFA from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the University of Bologna. She has previously lived and worked in Chicago, New York, Italy, and Iceland, and is trained as an amateur boxer.

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Martijn Konings

Martijn Konings is Professor of Political Economy and Social Theory at the University of Sydney. His most recent books are Capital and Time and The Asset Economy, the latter coauthored with Lisa Adkins and Melinda Cooper.

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Matthew Cole

Matthew Cole received his PhD in political science from Duke in 2017. His work has been published by Political Research QuarterlyEnvironmental Politics, and The Orwell Foundation.

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Feisal G. Mohamed

Feisal G. Mohamed is Professor of English at Yale. Also trained in law, he is author, most recently, of Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary. His writing has also appeared in Dissent, The New Republic, and The New York Times.

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Breanne Fahs

Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and author, most recently, of Unshaved. She also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice.

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William Pei Shih

William Pei Shih is a Taiwanese American writer living in New York City. His stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Best American Short StoriesUrsa Short Fiction (Ursastory.com), VQR, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Southern Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, F(r)iction, Catapult, The Asian American Literary Review, The Des Moines Register, The Masters Review, Reed Magazine, Carve Magazine, Hyphen, and more. His stories have been recognized by the John Steinbeck Award in Fiction, the Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction, the Raymond Carver Short Story Award, the UK Bridport Prize, The London Magazine Short Story Award, among others. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (MFA in Fiction), where he was a recipient of the Dean’s Graduate Fellowship. He currently teaches at NYU. For more information, please visit williampeishih.com

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Matthew Crain

Matthew Crain is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Miami University and author of Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet.

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Heather Berg

Heather Berg is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Porn Work.

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Porsha Olayiwola

Porsha Olayiwola is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the founder of the Roxbury Poetry Festival. Olayiwola is Brown University’s 2019 Heimark Artist-in-Residence as well as the 2021 Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a 2020 poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American Poets. Olayiwola earned her MFA in poetry from Emerson College and is the author of i shimmer sometimes, too. Olayiwola is the current poet laureate for the city of Boston. Her work can be found in or forthcoming from with TriQuarterly Magazine, Black Warrior Review, the Boston Globe, Essence, Redivider, the Academy of American Poets, Netflix, Wildness Press, the Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere.

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Jamie Martin

Jamie Martin is an assistant professor of history and social studies at Harvard. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Nation, n+1, Dissent, Bookforum, and The Guardian.

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Ben Schacht

Ben Schacht, a former engagement editor at Boston Review, is digital editor at SAPIENS.

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Anthony Okpunor

Anthony Okpunor is a Nigerian poet, essayist, and artist. He was shortlisted for the 2019 Nigerian Student Poetry Prize. He was also shortlisted for the SEVHAGE/Angya Poetry Prize 2019. He won the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (poetry category). He was a finalist for the 2020 Palette Spotlight Poetry Award. He was also longlisted for Palette Poetry’s 2020 Emerging Poet Prize. He was a finalist for the 2021 Chestnut Review’s Stubborn Writer’s contest (poetry category). He was recognized as a semifinalist for Adroit Journal’s 2021 Award for Poetry and Prose. His works have appeared or are forthcoming on Adroit Journal, the McNeese Review, Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, Rattle, Strange Horizons, Roadrunner Review, and elsewhere.

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