Princeton Club of Chicago

Aaron Robertson ‘17 is a writer, an editor, and a translator of Italian literature. His translation of Igiaba Scego’s Beyond Babylon was short-listed for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award, and in 2021 he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, The Point, and Literary Hub, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Dr. Lauren Michele Jackson is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University and contributing writer at the New Yorker. She is the author of White Negroes, which was short-listed for the 2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. Her essays and criticism have also been published in New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, 4Columns, and elsewhere. She is an alum of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received her PhD in English from the University of Chicago. As a New America fellow, she worked on Back: An American Tale, a collection of essays on American history’s belabored cores. Back is forthcoming from Amistad Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.