Session 2

Allyson Nadia Field is author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity (Duke University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019), and L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (University of California Press, 2015).

Vu Tran’s first novel, Dragonfish (W.W. Norton, 2015), was a New York Times Notable Book. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and an National Endowment of the Art Fellowship, and his short fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, the Best American Mystery Stories, and other publications.

Daniel Raeburn is the author of a book of art criticism, Chris Ware (Yale University Press, 2004), as well as Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn’t (Little Brown Books Group, 2017). His essays have appeared in the New Yorker, The Baffler, Tin House, and in The Imp, his series of booklets about underground cartoonists. He is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.

Tina Post’s creative work has been published in ImaginedTheaters.com, The Appendix, and in Stone Canoe, where it won the S. I. Newhouse School Prize for Nonfiction. Her scholarly work can be found in TDR/The Drama Review, and is forthcoming in Modern Drama and Time Signatures (Duke University Press). She is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.

Rachel Cohen’s writing draws on biography, art history, literary criticism, and the lyric essay.  Her essays on artists and writers—their friendships, fallings out, and the work they make—have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Art in America, Apollo Magazine, and Best American Essays. Her third book, Austen Years, a work of literary criticism and memoir, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2020. Cohen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

James Chandler's research interests include British and Irish literature since the early Enlightenment, American cinema, the history of disciplines, and the relationship of literary criticism to film criticism.

Benjamin Callard is a philosopher with interests in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. His recent work has focused on the problem of the freedom of the will. Callard is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.