Session 3

Petra Goedegebuure’s research interests cover cultural and linguistic aspects of second and first millennium BCE Anatolia and Syria. Her linguistic work focuses on the meaning of word order variation and the function of case endings. Goedegebuure also works on the further decipherment of Anatolian hieroglyphs and on word meaning in Luwian, one of the indigenous languages of Anatolia.

Stephanie Soileau's collection of short stories LAST ONE OUT SHUT OFF THE LIGHTS is forthcoming from Little, Brown & Co. in 2020, and she is working on a novel about oil, land rights, and the disappearing Louisiana coast.

Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is the author of Drown/Sever/Sing (Anomalous Press, 2015) and Don’t Come Back (Mad Creek Books, 2017), as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology The Great American Essay from Mad Creek Books. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation work has been featured in various journals, including The Bellingham Review, The Chicago Review, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Poets & Writers and the Sunday Rumpus, among others.

Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas, primarily during the 20th century. Winner of the 2018 Fence Modern Poets Series award, his collection of poems and anthropological essays on hemispheric migrations—Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (which also received an award from the Illinois Arts Council)—was published by Fence Books in 2019.

Jennifer Scappettone works at the juncture of scholarly research, translation, and the literary arts. She is the author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia University Press, 2014), a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, and of two poetry collections: From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009) and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos Press, 2016).

Julie Orlemanski’s new research project explores the status of fiction and fictional characters in the Middle Ages. She is the author of Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causality in the Literature of Late Medieval England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Orlemanski is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.

W. J. T. Mitchell is an editor of Critical Inquiry and the author of Image Science: Iconology, Visual Cultures, and Media Aesthetics (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Currently, he is working on two books about individual and collective forms of madness: Mental Traveler: A Journey through Schizophrenia and Seeing Through Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture.

Matthew Jesse Jackson is the editor and co-translator from the Russian of Ilya Kabakov: On Art (University of Chicago Press, 2018), author of The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and co-author of Vision and Communism (The New Press, 2011). He is Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.