Clara B.
Clara holds a BA in English from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia. She is now an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School.
Sarah H.
Sarah pursued her interest in the western European canon by studying the Great Books program at St. John’s College in Maryland. She then went on to receive her Master’s in Comparative Literature at Columbia, where she focused on the nineteenth-century European novel.
Benny S.
Benny received a BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. After graduation, he was awarded a Fulbright to study at Yunnan University before completing his PhD in Social Anthropology and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University.
Isaac J-F
Isaac is a doctoral student at Yale University in the Departments of African-American Studies and American Studies. His research interests include black studies, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and sound studies. Previously, Isaac earned his BA from Columbia University in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, graduating cum laude.
Connor M.
Connor is a PhD Candidate in Religion at Columbia University; his dissertation focuses on the relationship between religion, science, and technology in contemporary America. He also holds an MPhil and MA in Religion from Columbia, an a BA in Religion from Vassar College.
Max Sh.
Max holds a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia, an MA in Near Eastern Studies from NYU, and a BA in Philosophy from Vassar. An experienced classroom teacher, he currently teaches World History at Poly Prep Country Day School.
Emily F.
Emily is a PhD candidate at Columbia University in Religious Studies. She teaches Western and East Asian philosophy classes at SUNY Purchase, where she earned her BA in philosophy.
Tim L.
Tim holds an MA, MPhil, and PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He earned his Bachelor's in English and Classical Languages from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Quinn
Quinn works at Columbia University as the Director of South Asian Studies MA program and as a Lecturer in the Religion Department. He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University’s Religion Department.
Musa
Musa earned her PhD from Columbia University in Early Modern English Drama. She has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Assistant Professor of English.
Alix
Alix graduated from Brown with a BA in Performing Arts. After spending almost a decade in Canada, she moved to New York for an MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University. Her award-winning plays have been produced all over the world.
Emily K.
Emily earned her PhD, MPhil, and MA in Theatre and Performance from Columbia University, and her BA in Theatre and Philosophy from Williams College. She is now a consultant at the Columbia Writing Center.
Keating
Keating earned his BA in Classics (Columbia), as well as his MA and PhD in Classical Philology (Harvard). He is a nine-time winner of Harvard's Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
Mariam
Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Rahmani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Princeton and Oxford. She currently serves on the faculty of Bennington College and is a postdoctoral Fellow with the American Council for Learned Societies in 2023-24.
Daniel
Daniel is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of 5 books of literary nonfiction. He holds an MFA in Fiction (Columbia University), and has taught at Saint Ann's School, Columbia University, and elsewhere.
Chang
Chang is an MD/PhD student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He earned his BA in English Literature and Biochemistry at Columbia University, where he was a John Jay Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Ash
Ash earned a BA in Social Studies (Harvard), an MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought (University of Cambridge), and a JD (Yale). He is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at Columbia University.
Jon Kenneth
Jon earned a BA in English at George Washington and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Since 2009, he has taught literature, history, and writing at Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut.
Emma
Emma majored in Religious Studies at Yale. She is currently a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Lit at Columbia University, where she studies poetry and the history of the English literary tradition back to the Middle Ages.
Andrew
Andrew is earning his MA in Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University on a Fulbright Scholarship. He earned his BA in History from Columbia University (cum laude), where he received the Natalie Shawn Fellowship.
Helena
Helena studied at Columbia and NYU. She has served as a Contributing Editor and Senior Contributor at The New Inquiry, and her work has been excerpted or cited in The Atlantic, Harper's, and The New York Times, among others.
Hana
Hana double-majored in Sociology and Dance at Columbia University, where she graduated with departmental honors and Phi Beta Kappa. She also holds a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Hunter College, and she practices as a physical therapist.
Alexander
Alex received his undergraduate degree in Classical Civilizations from Harvard. He taught Latin, History, and Ancient Greek at the high school level, and then earned his Master's degree in Classics from Columbia.
Radhe
Radhe earned her JD from Harvard Law and currently works in litigation. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering with a concentration in Political Science from Columbia, and was an NYC Urban Fellow in the Department of Education.
Katherine
Katherine earned a BA in Psychology with a concentration in Liguistics from Columbia. Currently, she is completing an MA in Lingusitics at the Graduate Center at CUNY.
Peter
Peter is a PhD student in German at Columbia University. Prior to grad school, he earned a BMus in Musical Arts with distinction from Eastman, and, simultaneously, a BA in German Studies from University of Rochester.
Andrew
Andrew holds a BA in American History and English Literature from the College of William and Mary, and an MA in Ecclesiastical Studies from Oxford. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies at Columbia, and is a visiting professor there..
Jenna
Jenna is a PhD student of Medieval English Literature at Columbia. She holds a BA in English from Tufts, where she received the English Department Award and highest honors for her senior thesis, and graduated summa cum laude.