Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen is the author of Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; and Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience. He teaches philosophy at McMaster University and is associate editor of Common Knowledge for philosophy and politics.
Wayne Andersen, painter, corporate art consultant, and architect of the King Khaled Mosque in Riyadh, is professor emeritus of art and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his many books are German Artists and Hitler’s Mind, The Ara Pacis of Augustus and Mussolini, Picasso’s Brothel, The Youth of Cézanne and Zola, Manet: The Picnic and the Prostitute, and The Loss of Art: The Legacy of Marcel Duchamp.
Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity, The History of Greek Vases, The World of Ancient Art, and (as editor) the Oxford History of Classical Art.
David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English at Yale University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the author of Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic, Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking, A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost, Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s, and Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry.
Peter Burke is professor of cultural history at Cambridge University and a fellow of Emmanuel College. He is the author of some dozen books, including What Is Cultural History?; A Social History of Knowledge; Eyewitnessing; History; and Social Theory; The French Historical Revolution; The Fabrication of Louis XIV; Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe; The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy; and The Art of Conversation.
Sir David Cannadine is Whitney J. Oates Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University and honorary professor at the University of London. His many books include Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History, Class in Britain, In Churchill’s Shadow, Mellon: An American Life, and, most recently, Making History Now and Then.
William M. Chace’s most recent book is One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way. The author or editor of books on Pound, Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Lionel Trilling, he is president emeritus of Emory University. [End Page 533]
Denis Donoghue holds the Henry James Professorship in English and American Letters at New York University and is a member of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His is the author of some two dozen books, including Connoisseurs of Chaos, Ferocious Alphabets, On Eloquence, The Practice of Reading, Adam’s Curse, The Pure Good of Theory, Being Modern Together, We Irish, The Sovereign Ghost, The Ordinary Universe, and The Third Voice.
Prasenjit Duara received the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association of Asian Studies for his book Culture, Power, and the State: Rural Society in North China, 1900–1942. Professor of history at the University of Singapore and professor emeritus of history and East Asian studies at the University of Chicago, his other books include Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern and Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China.
Caryl Emerson is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Princeton. She is coauthor of Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics and has also written extensively on Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, the Russian critical tradition, and Russian music.
Mikhail Epstein, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, is the author of fifteen books, including After the Future, Transcultural Experiments, and Cries in the New Wilderness: From the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism. He is a recipient of the Andrei Belyi Prize of St. Petersburg and received the International Essay Prize of Weimar for “Chronocide,” an article published in Common Knowledge.
Michael Fagenblat is lecturer in Jewish civilization...
