N. Katherine Hayles

Postmodern Literary Critic

Gerald Vizenor

Writer, Scholar & Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

Gregory Maguire

Award-winning, Best-selling Author of the Wicked Years Novels

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Award-Winning Voice in Chicana Literature, Feminist & Activist Poet

Kevin Henkes

Kevin Henkes is a Caldecott Medal children's author and illustrator. He is known for his famous mouse books where he has created a group of adorable characters like Lily and Wemberley.

Judith Butler

Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

Who's Afraid of Gender?

R. Dwayne Betts

Founder of Freedom Reads, Poet, Author, Memoirist & Teacher

Ron Rosenbaum

Journalist & Author of "Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil"

Lucy Calkins

Robinson Professor in Children's Literature; Founding Director of the Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University's Teachers College

Michael Nagler

Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature

Rita Golden Gelman

American Writer of Children's Literature and Travel Literature for Adults

Carolina De Robertis

Award-Winning Author Known for "The Invisible Mountain"

M.T. Anderson

Novelist, Winner of the National Book Award

Jill McCorkle

Short Story Writer & Novelist

Sanford Levinson

W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair Professor of Government, The University of Texas School of Law

Hanan Al-Shaykh

Lebanese Author of Contemporary Literature Known for Works Like "The Locust and the Bird"

Kyi May Kaung

Speaking Truth to Power--

Felix Fernandez

Retired Mexican Goalkeeper & Co-host of the Univision Sports Show, "Republica Deportiva"

Mark F. Twight

Alpine Mountaineer & Founder of Gym Jones

Jabari Asim

Author, Poet, Playwright, & Associate Professor at Emerson College