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

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Education

Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of&nbsp;Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017),&nbsp;The Ferrante Letters&nbsp;(New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), and&nbsp;The Personality Brokers&nbsp;(Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator. She is the editor of&nbsp;Once and Future Feminist&nbsp;(Cambridge: MIT, 2018) and a centennial edition of&nbsp;Mrs. Dalloway, forthcoming from Liveright.

Merve Emre

<h4>Annie Julia Wyman is a writer and doctoral candidate in the Harvard English Department. She writes, teaches, and studies comedy and laughter. Her essays are forthcoming in City by City (n+1, Faber and Faber) and Read Harder (Believer Books); she is also the co-translator of philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s The Unspeakable Girl (Seagull Books). Her nom de tweets is @ajwyman.</h4>

Annie Julia Wyman

Departmental Drama: A Conversation on “The Chair”

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