Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellows in Letters

Professor of Critical Studies , California Institute of the Arts

Writer; Associate Professor of Writing, Columbia University

Novelist; Professor Emerita of African and African American Studies, Harvard University ,

Writer and Clinical Professor of Creative Writing, New York University

Associate Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University,

Writer and Assistant Professor, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa

Novelist; Essayist; Distinguished Lecturer in English, MFA Program, Hunter College, City University of New York

Edwards Professor of History Emerita, Princeton University