Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.
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Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the New York Times Best-selling author of two books: “How Not to be Wrong” and “Shape.” He has been visiting the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa this week as part of the school's 2025 distinguished lecture series in mathematics.