Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Deverell is a historian focusing on the American West. A co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to California History, he is a professor of history at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

Kun is a professor in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. He is an author and editor of several books, including "Songs in the Key of Los Angeles,” "To Live and Dine in L.A.,” and the forthcoming "The Tide Was Always... Read More →

McPherson is Professor in USC's School of Cinematic Arts and Director of the Harman Academy for Polymathic Studies. She is author of "Reconstructing Dixie" (Duke, 2003), co-editor of "Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture" (Duke, 2003) and "Transmedia Frictions... Read More →

Shah is a professor of history and chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC. His research examines historical struggles over bodies, space, and the exercise of state power from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Shah is the author of the award-winning... Read More →