Juliana Spahr is the author of several books of poetry, prose, and scholarship, including — most recently — Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (2018) and That Winter the Wolf Came (2015). She was awarded the Hardison Poetry Prize in 2009 and is currently professor of English and dean of Graduate Studies at Mills College.

Juliana Spahr

Thorns, or The Things That Humans Do in the Name of Care That Are Something Other Than Care

LARB Lit

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Everything I Never Wanted to Know

Out of Necessity: On Christine Hume’s “Everything I Never Wanted to Know”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Richard Jean So teaches American culture and computational methods at the University of Chicago.  His book Transpacific Community is forthcoming from Columbia UP.  With Hoyt Long, he co-directs the <a href="http://chicagotextlab.uchicago.edu/">Chicago Text Lab</a>, and with Andrew Piper, he has written a series of popular essays for The New Republic and The Atlantic as part of their <a href="http://www.cultureaftercomputation.com/">Culture After Computation</a> project.

Richard So

Andrew Piper is an associate professor of German and European literature at McGill University.

Andrew Piper

Beyond Resistance: Towards a Future History of Digital Humanities

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

<h4>Stephanie Young is a poet whose books include Ursula or University, Picture Palace, and Telling the Future Off. She edited the anthology Bay Poetics and is a member of the Krupskaya small press publishing collective.</h4>

Stephanie Young

The Program Era and the Mainly White Room

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Juliana Spahr is the author of several books of poetry, prose, and scholarship, including — most recently — Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (2018) and That Winter the Wolf Came (2015). She was awarded the Hardison Poetry Prize in 2009 and is currently professor of English and dean of Graduate Studies at Mills College.