The Problem with Pleasure

<h4>Linda Simon's books include <i>The Biography of Alice B. Toklas, Genuine Reality: A Life of William James, Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray, </i>and<i> Chanel</i>. She is General Editor of the online journal <i>William James Studies.</i></h4>

Linda Simon

Tickling for Education: Laura Frost’s “The Problem with Pleasure”

Education

<h4>Graham Hillard has written for <i>First Things</i>, <i>Memphis Magazine</i>, the<i> Oxford American</i>, <i>Sport Literate</i>, and other magazines and has contributed poetry and fiction to dozens of national and international journals. His investigative feature "A Killing in Cordova: The Trial and Tribulations of Harry Ray Coleman" was a finalist for the 2012 Livingston Award for Young Journalists.</h4>

Graham Hillard

The Complainers: Online with The Chronicle of Higher Education

Gendered Paradoxes

<h4>Mya Guarnieri is a Jerusalem-based journalist and writer. A regular contributor to <em>Al Jazeera English&nbsp;</em>and the United Nations' news agency IRIN, her articles and commentary have also appeared in <em> The Guardian</em>, <em> Foreign</em> Policy, <em>Le Monde Diplomatique&nbsp;</em><em></em>and dozens of other international outlets including <em> Outlook India </em> (India's Newsweek subsidiary), <em>Haaretz, The Jewish Daily Forward, Maan News Agency, Electronic Intifada, Common Ground News Service, Mondoweiss, Zeek, Daily News Egypt</em>, and <em>The Khaleej Times</em>. Additionally, her short stories have appeared in <em>Narrative Magazine</em> and <em>The Kenyon Review Online</em>. She blogs at <a href="http://972mag.com/myag/">+972</a>.</h4>

Mya Guarnieri

Women and the Middle East Part II: Jordan - On Gender, Education and the Limits of the Western Imagination

Women and the Middle East Part I: Palestine — Gender, Education, and Life in the West Bank

<h4>Colin Asher&rsquo;s writing has appeared in nearly two-dozen publications, a few reputable. He recently completed a lengthy homage to Nelson Algren, which is forthcoming in the January 2013 issue of <em>The Believer</em>.</h4>

Colin Asher

Prison.edu: On the Most Effective, Underfunded College System in the US

Perfume Dreams

East Eats West

<h4>Mariam Lam is the director of Southeast Asian Studies and professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Riverside.&nbsp; She is the author of articles on Southeast Asian literature, cuture, and film and an editor of of <i>Vietnamese Americans: Lessons in American History</i> and <i>Not Coming to Terms: Viet Nam, Post-Trauma and Cultural Politics</i>.</h4>

Mariam Lam

<h4>Andrew Lam is the author of <i>East Eats West </i>and <i>Perfume Dreams.</i>&nbsp; He writes for New American Media.</h4>

Andrew Lam

The Education of a Vietnamese American Writer

<h4><strong></strong>Mark McGurl is Professor of English at Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of <em>The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and Rise of Creative Writing</em>.</h4>

Mark McGurl

The MFA Octopus: Four Questions about Creative Writing

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