Ryan Carr is a lecturer at Columbia, where he teaches classes in American studies, English, and the Core Curriculum. He is the author of Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast (Columbia, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Writings...
Ulrike Wagner received her PhD in German and comparative literature from Columbia University and is director of German Studies at Bard College Berlin. Her research focuses on European Romanticism and American Transcendentalism.
She recently completed Trans...
Mona Simpson is the author of the novels Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood, Casebook, and Commitment. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, she moved to Los Angeles as a teenager. She studied poetry with Seamus Heaney...
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, cultural critic, and MacArthur Fellow whose work explores the public life of the imagination, artistic practice, and the cultural commons. He is the author of The Gift (Random House, 1983), a landmark work that...
Lydia Moland is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. She is the author of Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life (2022), a biography of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. Her writing has appeared in The Wall...
Peter Catapano is an author and editor who has worked at The New York Times since 1998. He is the founding editor of the Times’ philosophy series The Stone, which ran for eleven years, and co-editor of four essay collections. His writing has appeared in T...
Alda Balthrop-Lewis is Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University. She studies ethics—the norms, principles, relationships, and practices people use in their efforts to live well. In Thoreau's Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2021)...
Rebecca Kneale Gould is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, where she co-directs the Religion, Philosophy, and Environment Focus. Trained in the study of religion, her research explores the intersections of religion...
Scott L. Pratt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. His research and teaching focus on American philosophy, including pragmatism, feminist philosophy, philosophies of race, and Indigenous philosophy, as well as philosophy of education...
Kristen Case is a poet and scholar whose books include American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice, Little Arias, Principles of Economics, Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar, and Daphne. She has co-edited several essay collections on American writers and is...