Chad Post hosts the Two Month Review podcast, which has done read-along discussions of William Gaddis' J R, among other novels.
Stephen Paur
Stephen Paur is a college writing teacher and PhD student in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona, USA. His research areas are writing pedagogy, language politics, the rhetoric of climate change, and the history of writing technologies. His work has appeared in Kairos, Gonzaga Magazine, Radical Teacher, and Community Literacy Journal.
Ali Chetwynd
Ali Chetwynd is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. He studies how non-mimetic fiction argues and the medium-specific capacities of prose fiction. He has published, among other things, a triptych of articles on William Gaddis's corporate writing archive with Orbit: A Journal of American Literature.
Marie Fahd
Marie Fahd earned her PhD in American Literature, with a focus on Gaddis and art, at Paris Diderot University (Paris 7). Specialising in American Literature and formerly a French lecturer at the University of Michigan, she has notably contributed to the American Book Review with an article on Joseph Tabbi’s biography of William Gaddis. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary approach, chiefly focusing on the concept of indeterminacy, the challenges of representation, and the interactions between literature and painting, including the study of fictional paintings. She plans to publish an essay based on her doctoral dissertation that explores and illuminates Cubism techniques in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. Starting in 2023, she launched her own business venture, Plume d’Excellence, specialising in professional and literary writings, translations, and transcriptions, both in French and English, catering to diverse audiences.
Jack Williams
Paul Ingendaay
Crystal Alberts
Crystal Alberts is a Professor of English at the University of North Dakota, where she also serves as co-director of the UND Writers Conference. Alberts specializes in post-1945 literatures and cultures, including Indigenous literatures. She is the co-editor of William Gaddis, “The Last of Something:” Critical Essays. Her scholarship has also appeared in The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy, Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11, Transmotion,Don DeLillo in Context. Alberts is also a digital humanist, whose projects have been funded by multiple awards from the NEA and the NEH. She is currently part of team launching the new “Expanding Digital Humanities Across Northern Plains Indigenous Higher Educational Institutions Initiative,” a multi-year Mellon Foundation funded collaboration between UND and the North Dakota Tribal College System.