Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. His debut novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, Absurdistan, was one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year. His novel Super Sad True Love Story won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and became one of the most iconic novels of the decade.
Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and the Faculty Director of UChicago’s Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, as well as the Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director, Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity. His work focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He holds BA, JD, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber has served as Princeton University’s 20th president since July 2013. He served previously as Princeton’s provost for nine years, beginning in 2004, after joining the Princeton faculty in 2001. As president, Eisgruber has led efforts to increase the representation of low-income and first-generation students at Princeton and other colleges and universities.
Leslie Buxbaum is Director of Creative Research and Associate Professor of the Practice in the Arts in UChicago’s Theater and Performance Studies Program.
Eric Slauter is a specialist in early American cultural, intellectual, legal, and political history. He has published The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution (2009) and a series of essays on the language of rights and equality in early America.
Martha Feldman is Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music and the College. She works on vocal practices, genres, and performances, often Italian, from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries, including those of madrigalists, courtesans, castrati and other early modern singers, and jazz singers. Her Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2007, winner of the Gordon J.
Sarah Nooter is Edward Olson Professor in the Department of Classics, Program in Theater and Performance Studies, and Program in Gender Studies and in the College. She writes about Greek drama and modern reception, and also about poetry, the voice, embodiment, and performance. Her first book is When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and her second is The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Daisy Delogu is the Howard L. Willett Professor of French Literature in UChicago’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She has been involved with the university’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality for over two decades and currently serves as the Center's Faculty Director. Her research and teaching interests center gender and sexuality, particularly in medieval and early modern French literature.
