Contributors
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Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women's Studies at Syracuse University. She is the author of Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory (1996), coeditor of Feminist Epistemologies (1993), and editor of Epistemology: The Big Questions (1998). She is currently working on a book titled Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self and is coediting Thinking from the Underside of History, with Eduardo Mendieta, a collection of essays on the philosophy of Enrique Düssel.
Lawrence Buell is the John P. Marquand Professor of English at Harvard University. His works include The Environmental Imagination (1995), Writing for an Endangered World (2001), and numerous articles on the discourses of environment and environmentalism in U.S. history.
George Levine is Kenneth Burke Professor of English at Rutgers University, where he directs the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. His books include the edited collections Aesthetics and Ideology (1994), The Politics of Research (1997), and The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (2001), and The Realistic Imagination (1981) and Darwin and the Novelists (1988). His latest book is Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England (forthcoming 2002), and he is at work on a new study to be called “The Uses of Darwin.”
Satya P. Mohanty is Professor of English at Cornell University, where he teaches courses in critical theory, twentieth-century literature, and colonial and postcolonial studies. He is the author of Literary Theory and the Claims of History (1997) and is currently working on two books: Are Values Always Political? and Multicultural Values: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Diversity.
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Law School, Philosophy Department, and Divinity School. Her most recent books are Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach (2000) and Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001). An updated edition of The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986), with a new Introduction, appeared in 2001.
Ramón Saldívar is Hoagland Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce (1984) and Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference (1990). He is completing a book on Chicano modernity and transnational poetics entitled Transnational Identites and Border Knowledge: The Poetics of Américo Paredes.
Allen W. Wood is Ward W. and Patricia B. Woods Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. His books include Karl Marx (1981), Hegel's Ethical Thought (1990), and Kant's Ethical Thought (1999). His next book will be Unsettling Obligations: Essays on Reason, Reality and the Ethics of Belief (forthcoming 2002).
