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About Rachel Pafe
I am a writer and researcher based in Berlin. My academic research deals with Gillian Rose, a sociologist and philosopher who had a fraught relationship with religion, Marxism, and political action. More broadly, much of my work is based on collaboration across disciplines, including reading groups and publication projects with artists, religious historians, philosophers, and game designers. I write widely and para-academically, ranging from book reviews and criticism to prose, fiction, and comics. For NBN's Biography channel, I focus on both experimentation with the biography genre and challenging and unusual lives.
NBN Episodes hosted by Rachel:
November 2, 2025
Further Reports
Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently Good Night Sleep Tight (Coffeehouse Press 2024). His novel Last Days won t…
August 4, 2025
Theory & Practice
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Australia on unceded Gadigal land. She writes fiction but has also published a short book about…
April 17, 2025
Frontier
Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story (Barrelhouse Inc., 2025) is a genre-bending expedition into childbirth. Seamlessly blending memoir, fiction, and …
October 14, 2024
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.…
August 3, 2024
Traces of Enayat
Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroin…
July 23, 2024
Committed
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Vintage, 2024) is a critical memoir about women, reading, and mental illness. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student a…
May 26, 2024
Melancholy Wedgwood
Melancholy Wedgwood (MIT Press, 2024) is an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship …
May 10, 2024
Holes
Holes splices forms of fiction and nonfiction. The narrator, a researcher of limits at an unidentified university, figures her entanglement with an un…