Valeria Luiselli is an award-winning Mexican writer and essayist whose novels and nonfiction explore migration, displacement, language, and belonging. She is the author of Lost Children Archive, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends, and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
Ethan Madarieta is a scholar and writer whose research examines Indigenous and diasporic memory, violence, geography, literature, and political performance across the Americas. He is anAssistant Professor of English at Syracuse University.
Laurel V. McLaughlin is a curator, writer, and art historian whose research focuses on performance art, migration, and migratory aesthetics. She is the curator of Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body and Co-Director and Chief Curator at Tufts University Art Galleries.
Andrei Pop is an art historian and Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His research explores the relationships among art, science, philosophy, representation, and the history of images.
Ernesto Pujol is a Cuban-born social choreographer, performance artist, educator, and writer whose durational works use walking, stillness, listening, and poetic gesture to engage communities, places, and histories.
Rebecca Schneider is a performance theorist and Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Her influential writing examines performance, reenactment, gesture, remains, war, history, and embodied forms of memory and a recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship.
Pamela Sneed is a poet, writer, performer, visual artist, and educator whose interdisciplinary practice engages race, gender, sexuality, history, and human rights. She is the author of Funeral Diva, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery, KONG and Other Works, and Sweet Dreams.
Mechtild Widrich is an art historian and Chair of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research and writing examine performance, public art, monuments, commemoration, activism, architecture, and the politics of public space.
