Pop Conference 2016

Andy Zax is a Grammy-nominated music producer. His writing—under his own name and the pseudonym @Discographies—has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, and elsewhere. The Village Voice hailed him as its music critic of the year in 2010, and he... Read More →

Christa Anne Bentley is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is completing her dissertation through the Royster Society of Fellows. Christa researches the politics of popular music, and her dissertation looks at the ways the singer-songwriter... Read More →

Loren Glass is Professor of English and the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa. His first book, Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, was published by New York University Press in 2004. His history of Grove Press, Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press... Read More →

Zach Schonfeld is a reporter for Newsweek Magazine and a contributor to The A.V. Club and Paste. Previously, he was an editor for PopMatters and an editorial fellow for The Atlantic Wire. He's a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he was editor of the campus blog Wesleying and... Read More →