2024

Tina Post’s recent monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression (2023), won book awards from the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, the American Theatre and Drama Society, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her scholarly articles have appeared in ASAP/Journal, Modern Drama, TDR, International Review of African American Art (IRAAA), and the edited collection Race and Performance after Repetition.

Joel Snyder is renowned as a world-leading expert in 19th-century photographic history. For more than four decades, he has contributed to and edited the Critical Inquiry literary journal. An accomplished photographer, Snyder has taught his students how to integrate intellectual rigor into their photographs.

The Tablet Collection team, including undergraduate researcher and photographer Danielle Levy, assistant curators Madeline Ouimet and Marta Díaz Herrera, Postdoc Ryan Winters, and Tablet Collection Curator and Associate Professor of Assyriology Susanne Paulus, will present the tour. The tablet collection team conducts research on various aspects of ancient Iraq's cultural heritage, including economic and legal history, literature, language contact, religion, and the materiality of writing in its archaeological context. 

Mike Schuh lives in Chicago where he works to support artists and other creative practitioners as the Associate Director of Fellowships and Operations at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and Co-founder of the art gallery Regards.

Stephanie Cristello is a contemporary art curator, critic, and author living in Chicago. She serves as the director/curator at Chicago Manual Style & P.S. (Publishing Services). 

Zachary Cahill is an interdisciplinary artist and the director of Programs and Fellowships at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, as well as the founding editor-in-chief of Portable Gray. 

Jordan Parker is the Arts Education Graduate Fellow at the Smart Museum of Art, where she assists in academic programming and community engagement. Previously, Parker worked as a Guest Booking Intern at CNN and Office of Strategy, Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Consultant at Atlanta Housing. Currently, she is working to obtain a master’s degree in Public Policy with a specialization in Culture and Arts Policy and International Development at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.