LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Lord is an author, critic and cartoonist. Her most recent book is "The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice." She also wrote "Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll" as well as "Astro... Read More →

DeMita's hundreds of credits include “Ninjago,” “Cars 3,” “Star Trek: Discovery,” “The Lego Batman Movie,” “Friday the 13th: The Game,” “Happy Feet,” “Lilo and Stitch,” “The Simpsons,” “Princess Mononoke,” “Naruto,” and “Dragon Ball Super... Read More →

Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at USC and the former co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. His publications include "Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick for the English Classroom... Read More →

Johnson is a professor at USC in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research interests are mainly concerned with the development of theoretical tools for the description of the basic fabric of nature. He works on superstring theory, quantum gravity, gauge theory and M-theory... Read More →