<h4>Lili is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley working on Milton and seventeenth-century theories of eating and reading. She tweets at <a href="https://twitter.com/Millicentsomer">@millicentsomer</a>, blogs at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.excrementalvirtue.com/">Excremental Virtue</a>, and writes TV criticism over at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.deartelevision.wordpress.com/">Dear Television</a>&nbsp;along with Jane Hu, Phillip Maciak and Evan Kindley. You can sometimes find her at The Awl, The Hairpin, and The New Inquiry. </h4>

Lili Loofbourow

<h4>Daphne A. Brooks is professor of African American Studies, Theater Studies, and American Studies at Yale University where she teaches courses on black literature and culture, performance studies, sound studies, and black feminist theory. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910 (Duke UP, 2006) and Jeff Buckley’s Grace (Continuum, 2005), and the forthcoming Subterranean Blues: Black Women Sound Modernity (Harvard UP).</h4>

Daphne A. Brooks

Jesse McCarthy is an assistant professor in the departments of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in The Nation, n+1, Dissent, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and in the magazine The Point where he is also an editor. His first book, Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?, a collection of essays, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton &amp; Co. in spring 2021. Photo by Nina Sparling.

Jesse McCarthy

Sarah Marshall&nbsp;is the co-host of the popular modern history podcast You’re Wrong About, which has been highlighted in The New Yorker, The Guardian,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Time&nbsp;magazine. Her writing has appeared in the&nbsp;Believer, Buzzfeed,&nbsp;and the true crime collection&nbsp;Unspeakable Acts.

Sarah Marshall

Lexis-Olivier Ray&nbsp;is&nbsp;a multimedia investigative staff reporter at the James Beard Award winning publication,&nbsp;L.A. TACO, as well as a filmmaker and artist. Based in Los Angeles, Ray has previously contributed to&nbsp;Men’s Health&nbsp;Magazine, the&nbsp;L.A. Times,&nbsp;SFGATE,&nbsp;LAist,&nbsp;and&nbsp;KCET. Ray was a 2020 Center For Health Journalism Data Fellow and 2020 Ruben Salazar Awards finalist.

Lexis-Olivier Ray

Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Where’s ‘the Discourse’?”

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

Cultural Studies

Irene Yoon is a writer and teacher who splits her time between Oakland and Los Angeles. She earned her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, where she currently teaches courses on contemporary fiction and visual culture and manages Art of Writing, an interdisciplinary writing program. Her writing has appeared in&nbsp;Twentieth Century Literature&nbsp;and&nbsp;Transition Magazine.

Irene Yoon

Fury, Kitten, Dude: On Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Aaron Bady, Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip Maciak, Sarah Mesle, &amp; others

Dear Television

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen

Television

Jane Hu is an English PhD candidate at UC Berkeley with an emphasis in Film and Media Studies. She has published in Textual Practice, The New Yorker, the New Republic, Slate, and The Awl.

Jane Hu

<h4>Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;His essays have appeared in&nbsp;Slate,&nbsp;The New Republic, and other venues, and he's co-founder of the Dear Television column. He's the author of&nbsp;The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era&nbsp;(Columbia University Press, 2019) and&nbsp;Avidly Reads Screen Time&nbsp;(New York University Press, 2023). He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.</h4>

Phillip Maciak

The Girls Finale

Discipline and Punish

The People v. OJ Simpson: Season 1, “The Verdict”

The Americans: Season 4, "Pastor Tim"

The Americans: Season 4, "Glanders"

Aaron Bady is a writer in Oakland.

Aaron Bady

Louis C.K.'s "Horace and Pete," Episode 1

Mad Men, Season 7: "Person to Person"

Mad Men, Season 7: "Time & Life"

Mad Men, Season 7: "Severance"

The Fall, Seasons 1 and 2

Lili is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley working on Milton and seventeenth-century theories of eating and reading. She tweets at <a href="https://twitter.com/Millicentsomer">@millicentsomer</a>, blogs at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.excrementalvirtue.com/">Excremental Virtue</a>, and writes TV criticism over at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.deartelevision.wordpress.com/">Dear Television</a>&nbsp;along with Jane Hu, Phillip Maciak and Evan Kindley. You can sometimes find her at The Awl, The Hairpin, and The New Inquiry.