AUDIO LIBRARY

Electronic Literature
John Cayley - Author of the broadband internet drama What We Will
Larry McCaffery - Professor of English at San Diego State University
Scott Rettberg - cofounder of the Electronic Literature Organization and the co-author of The Unknown, a hypertext novel

College Admissions: Who Gets in and Why
Lani Guinier - Professor of law at Harvard University
Peter Schrag - Senior correspondent for the American Prospect
Michael Behnke - Vice president of enrollment at the University of Chicago

The on-screen persona and cultural impact of Marlene Dietrich
Mary Desjardins – Assistant professor of film studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
Amy Lawrence – Professor of film and women's studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
Tom Gunning – Professor in the cinema and media studies program at the University of Chicago

Early Modern Humans
Harold Dibble – Curator at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania
Lynne Schepartz – Paleo-Anthropologist at the University of Cincinnati
Richard Milo – Anthropologist at Chicago State University

Language acquisition
Mark Baker - Author of The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar
Mark Lidz - Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University
Sandra Waxman - Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Northwestern University

The Military and Civil Society
Michael Desch - Author of Civilian Control of the Military: the Changing Security Environment
Thomas Ricks - Pentagon Correspondent for the Washington Post
John Williams - Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago

Considerations of expanding the war on terrorism to Iraq
Daryl Press - Assistant Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire
John Mearsheimer - Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
Charles Duelfer - Visiting Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, and former Deputy Chairman of the UN Disarmament Commission in Iraq

The Book Business
Alex Shakar - Author of the novel The Savage Girl
Elaine Hadley - Professor of English at the University of Chicago
Scott Stossel - a writer for The American Prospect

United States Immigration Policy
Alan Kessler – Political scientist and visiting scholar at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego
Susan Gzesh – Director of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago
Barry Chiswick – Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois in Chicago

	Gretchen Helfrich with Mark Lilla (right) and Richard Posner

The Intersection of Philosophy and Politics
Mark Lilla - Author of The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals and Politic, and a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago
Richard Posner - Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago
Judith Shulevich - Columnist with the New York Times Book Review and the literary editor of the on-line magazine Slate

The Significance of Clothing in Western Social Structures
John Russick - Historian and developer of the exhibition Fashion, Flappers 'n All That Jazz, currently showing at the Chicago Historical Society
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - Professor of History at Harvard University and the author of The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
Hazel Clarke - Art Historian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Creating New Markets
Lynne Kiesling - Director of Economic Policy at the Reason Public Policy Institute and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Owen Lamont - Associate Professor of Finance in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago

The Genre of Fantasy Films
Wade Jennings- Professor Emeritus of English at Ball State University who studies and writes about the fantasy film genre
Dan Persons- Edits Cinefantastique, the Chicago-based film journal dedicated to the fantasy, science fiction, and horror film genres

The Future of Political Parties
Alan Gitelson - Professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago
Ted Halstead - Co-author of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics
Richard Valelly - Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College

	Gretchen Helfrich with Mary Zimmerman and Simon Callow

From the Page to the Stage
Mary Zimmerman - Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, playwright and director, winner of numerous awards including a MacArthur "genius grant" for adapting and directing such productions as Metamorphoses, Journey to the West, The Arabian Nights, and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Jeffrey Hatcher - A playwright currently working on an adaptation of Herman Melville's Pierre or the Ambiguities. His previous adaptations have included Smash and The Turn of the Screw
Simon Callow - Film and theatre actor and author, currently appearing in Peter Ackroyd's adaptation of The Mystery of Charles Dickens

Distant Atmospheres and Extra Terrestrials
Tim Brown - Astronomer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a member of the team that recently detected the first evidence of an atmosphere on an extra-solar planet.
Debra Fischer - Member of the University of California Planet Search Project, which has discovered more than forty planets.
Doug Duncan - Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago