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Lisa Joy is the co-creator, co-showrunner, and executive producer of HBO's "Westworld.” Highly
regarded for her genre writing, Joy directs and produces the show through her multi-year
overall deal with Warner Bros. Television. Additionally, Joy serves as President of
Production at Kilter Films, the production company she and Jonathan Nolan set up,
which produces "Westworld" under its banner.
Along with "Westworld," Joy has several highly-anticipated film projects in the works,
including the film adaptation of "Battlestar Galactica" for Universal and the feature
script "Reminiscence," which placed on the 2013 Black List.
Prior to her career in entertainment, Joy graduated from Stanford undergrad and Harvard
Law School. She then went on to work as a management consultant in the tech sector
and practice law in California. Joy’s writing career began on the Emmy Award-winning
and Golden Globe-nominated ABC show “Pushing Daisies,” which earned her a Writers
Guild Nomination. She later joined the staff of USA Network’s Emmy Award-nominated
show “Burn Notice” as a co-producer.
Joy grew up in New Jersey. She is biracial and a first generation Asian American.
Joy currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
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Caroline Bainbridge is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Culture in the Department of Media, Culture and
Language at the University of Roehampton London where she is a member of the program
team for degrees in Media, Culture and Identity.
She is the Co-Director of Media and the Inner World Research Network funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council. The organization brings together academics,
psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and media practitioners with the goal of exploring
the place of emotion and therapy in popular culture.
She has a number of editorial responsibilities, working as the Film Section Editor
for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Editor of Free Associations, and
Series Editor (with Candida Yates) of the 'Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture' book
list published by Karnac Books.
Her research interests are in cinema, television, gender, psychoanalysis, visual culture,
the politics of identity, and the emotional turn in popular culture.
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James Blaylock has been a writing teacher since 1976, about the same time that he sold his short
story "The Pink of Fading Neon" to the literary magazine TriQuarterly. Since then he has published 25 books over the years, both novels and short story
collections. Story collections include Thirteen Phantasms (2000), In for a Penny (2003), and The Devils in the Details (2003), co-written with Tim Powers. Novels set in southern California include The Rainy Season (1999), Winter Tides (1997), All the Bells on Earth (1995), Night Relics (1994), and The Last Coin (1988). Translations of his work have appeared around the world, most recently in
Russia and Japan. Blaylock is twice winner of the World Fantasy Award, and he received
the Phillip K. Dick Memorial Award for his novel Homunculus (1986). His story "Unidentified
Objects" was included in Prize Stories 1990, the O. Henry Awards. According to the Library Journal, "Blaylock's evocative prose and studied pacing make him one of the most distinctive
contributors to American magical realism."
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Rose Eveleth is a producer, designer and writer based in Brooklyn. She's dabbled in everything
from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about
fake tumbleweed farms. These days, she explores how humans tangle with science and
technology. She has a degree in ecology, behavior and evolution from UC San Diego
and a graduate degree in journalism from NYU. She's been a columnist for BBC Future
and Motherboard, the producer of the Story Collider, the special media manager at
Nautilus, a new digital magazine about science, culture and philosophy and the managing
editor for LadyBits, a place where women are smart about science. She also edited
the Smart News blog at Smithsonian Magazine, and founded Science Studio, a home for
all the best science multimedia on the web. Even before that, she was an editor of
all things animated at TED Education, and a contributing editor at Smart Planet. These
days she is the producer and host of Flash Forward, a podcast about the future.
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Jon Gratch is the is Director for Virtual Human Research at the University of Southern California’s
(USC) Institute for Creative Technologies, a Research Full Professor of Computer Science
and Psychology at USC, and Director of USC’s Computational Emotion Group. Dr. Gratch’s
research focuses on computational models of human cognitive and social processes,
especially emotion. He studies the relationship between cognition and emotion, the
cognitive processes underlying emotional responses, and the influence of emotion on
decision making and physical behavior.
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing.
IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing
technology for the benefits of humanity. He is the Associate Editor of Emotion Review
and the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, and former President
of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC). He is a Fellow
of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Cognitive
Science Society, a SIGART Autonomous Agent’s Award recipient, and a Senior Member
of IEEE. Dr. Gratch is the author of over 300 technical articles.
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The library will be hosting a book club again for this year’s interstices. Space is
limited. To register, contact Esther Shin at