Pop Conference 2018

Mairead Case is a working writer and teacher. Currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Denver, she teaches at DU, the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and every Friday at the Denver women's jail. Mairead has been a legal observer with the NLG for over a decade. She is... Read More →

Sean Nelson is a writer, musician, and actor who lives in Seattle, where he works as Editor-at-Large for The Stranger. He wrote the 33&1/3 book about Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark, and recently sang backing vocals for Linda Lewis and Neil Innes on the same night."Suffer Your... Read More →

Maxwell Williams is a PhD candidate in musicology at Cornell University, where he researches US hip-hop and the African diaspora. He has given conference papers on topics ranging from gender construction in the music of Amy Winehouse to postcoloniality and London’s grime communities... Read More →

Carl Wilson is the music critic at Slate, as well as the author of Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste (Bloomsbury), and a contributor to Billboard, The New York Times, and other publications. He lives in Toronto, where he helps curate the Trampoline Hall... Read More →