Nicholas Birns teaches modern and contemporary literature at the School of Professional Studies, New York University. His recent books include The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien (2024), and the co-authored Agatha Christie Under the Magnifying Glass (with Margaret Boe Birns, 2025).
Erin C. Callahan is a professor of English at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. She has published essays on the Star Wars, and Charles Schulz’s Peanuts. She is the co-editor with Court Carney of The Power and Politics of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me (2023), and hosts the Infinity Goes Up on Trial podcast.
Alessandro Carrera is Moores Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Houston, Texas. He translated Chronicles, Tarantula, and The Philosophy of Modern Song into Italian, authored La voce di Bob Dylan (2001, 2011, 2021), and in 2025 with Carlo Feltrinelli, edited Bob Dylan, 64 Lyrics.
Charles O. Hartman has published eight books of poetry, including Downfall of the Straight Line (2024), as well as books on jazz and song and on computer poetry. His Free Verse (1981) is still in print, and Verse: An Introduction to Prosody came out in 2015. He is Poet in Residence at Connecticut College, and plays jazz guitar.
Jonathan Hodgers received his PhD in music from Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches in popular music. His core areas of interest are song lyrics, the music of the 50s and 60s, audiovisual aesthetics, and music in movies. His recent book, Dylan on Film, was published by Routledge in 2024.
Bill Lattanzi is a playwright, video editor, and writer. His essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books and Cognoscenti. He is a past Hall Humanities Fellow at U. of Kansas, a Knight Fellow in Science Journalism at MIT, and holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University.
Quentin Miller, Professor of English at Suffolk University, is retiring at the end of this year to pursue non-academic writing. He is working on two projects: a campus novel titled Paradise Misplaced and a book about American halls of fame.
Jason Miller is a Distinguished Professor and public scholar at NC State University whose work has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, BBC, NPR, and The Rachel Maddow Show. His fourth book, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power is forthcoming this fall from the trade division of UNC Press.
Thomas G. Palaima is Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics at University of Texas, Austin and a MacArthur fellow. He has written over 500 commentaries, reviews, features, and poems. These have appeared in Times Higher Education, Michigan War Studies Review, Arion, The Texas Observer, the Los Angeles Times, and commondreams.org.
Stephen Rive is an independent scholar living in Toronto.
Gayle Wald is Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, where she teaches cultural theory, American cultural history and popular music. Her most recent book, This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement was published by University of Chicago Press in 2025.
