Sarah Chihaya is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University. She is one of four authors of&nbsp;The Ferrante Letters, and is a senior editor at LARB.&nbsp;

Sarah Chihaya

Andrea Long Chu&nbsp;is a writer and critic who lives in Brooklyn. Her book&nbsp;Females&nbsp;was published by Verso Books in 2019.

Andrea Long Chu

K. Austin Collins&nbsp;is a film critic for&nbsp;Rolling Stone.&nbsp;He was formerly the film critic for&nbsp;Vanity Fair and The Ringer.&nbsp;His writing has also appeared in the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books,&nbsp;Reverse Shot,&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Brooklyn Rail.

K. Austin Collins

Lauren Michele Jackson&nbsp;is an assistant professor of English at Northwestern University and a contributing writer at&nbsp;The New Yorker. She is the author of the essay collection&nbsp;White Negroes&nbsp;and is currently working on a second book, forthcoming with Amistad Press.

Lauren Michele Jackson

Christine Smallwood&nbsp;is the author of a novel,&nbsp;The Life of the Mind. She is a frequent contributor to&nbsp;The New York Times Magazine&nbsp;and a contributing editor at&nbsp;Harper’s Magazine. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University.

Christine Smallwood

Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “On Leaving”

Education

Christine Smallwood&nbsp;is the author of a novel,&nbsp;The Life of the Mind. She is a frequent contributor to&nbsp;The New York Times Magazine&nbsp;and a contributing editor at&nbsp;Harper’s Magazine. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University.

Christine Smallwood

Articles

Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “On Leaving”