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Trevor Cribben Merrill

Trevor Cribben Merrill is the author of a novel, Minor Indignities (2020), as well as of a literary monograph, The Book of Imitation and Desire (2013), and an essay, The Situation of the Catholic Novelist (2021). He has edited, published, and translated books, articles, speeches, and interviews by and about René Girard. His essays and book reviews have appeared in L’Atelier du roman (where he write a column on literature and current events), Esprit, First Things, The University Bookman, Dappled Things, and others.

Hollis Robbins

Hollis Robbins is dean of humanities at the University of Utah and a noted scholar of nineteenth-century American and African American literature, newspapers, film, and poetry. Her most recent book, Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition, explores the interrelationship of influence, double consciousness, canon-formation, and poetic form. She is also the Co-Director/Managing Editor of the Black Periodical Literature Project at Harvard University.

Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.