Simone Drake Author

Simone Drake, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University is executive producer of Shutdown (2023) and author or editor of Critical Appropriation: African American Woman and the Construction of Transnational Identity (2014), When We Imagine Grace: Black Men and Subject Making (2016), Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century (2020), and The Oxford Handbook of African American Women’s Writing (2024).

James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of English at Ohio State University is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books, including Somebody Telling Somebody Else (2017) and Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx (2023). He has been editor of Narrative since its inception in 1993.

Robyn Warhol, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University has recently published The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories (2018), co-edited with Zara Dinnen; Narrative Theory Unbound (2015), co-edited with Susan S. Lanser; and Love Among the Archives (2015), co-authored with Helena Michie.

Lisa Zunshine, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, is a former Guggenheim fellow and the author or editor of twelve books, including Getting Inside Your Head (2012), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (2015), and The Secret Life of Literature (2022).