Contributor Notes

Contributor Notes Gary A. Anderson is a professor of Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School. He is currently finishing a book on the interpretation of the lives of Adam and Eve in early Jewish and Christian sources.The current article, though it will not appear in that book, is an outgrowth ofthis larger project. Related articles on this topic include: "The Exaltation ofAdam and the Fall of Satan," in theJournal ofJewish Thought and Philosophy 6 (1997) ioç-34; and"The Fall of Satan in the Thought of St. Ephrem and John Milton," forthcoming in the electronicjournal Hugoye [http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/]. Judith Barad is department chair and professor of philosophy at Indiana State University. She received her doctorate in philosophy from Northwestern University in 1984 and was appointed to teach at her current university in 198c. She is the author ofthree books: Consent-.The Means to an Active Faith According to Saint Thomas Aquinas, Aquinas on the Nature andTreatment ofAnimals, and The Ethics ofStarTrek, soon to be published by HarperCollins. Active in her community, Barad is president of a no-kill shelter for stray dogs and cats. H. Wendell Howard is a widely published writer, musician, and professor of English at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. Mellen Poetry Press has just published his book of poems titled In Praise ofWomen. Janine Langan isWilliam J. Bennett Professor of Christianity and Culture at St. Michael's College, University ofToronto, in aprogram she founded twenty years ago. Since 1991;, she has provided the art component oftheTwo Millennia of Christianity lecture series for the LOGOS 3:1 WINTER 2000 [98LOGOS Weathersfield Institute in NewYork. She lectures widely, and has published on Hegel and Mallarmé, the selfin contemporary philosophy , Simone de Beauvoir, Dostoevsky, Dante,Teilhard de Chardin, Christianity and art, the role of history in Catholic education, the encyclicals ofJohn Paul II, and the New Catechism. She has five children and nine grandchildren. A student, colleague and friend of Etienne Gilson, Armand A. Maurer, C.S.B., was for many years a Senior Fellow at the Pontifical Institute ofMediaeval Studies inToronto. His Medieval Philosophy (1962) has shaped several generations of scholars. Although no longer teaching, Fr. Maurer continues to publish, most recently The Philosophy ofWilliam qfOckham in the Light ofIts Principles (1999) and a translation of Gilson's Christian Philosophy:An Introduction (1993). William F. May, Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University, is the author of The Physician's Covenant, The Patient's Ordeal, and the forthcoming The Beleagured Rulers:The Public Obligation ofthe Professional. Freda Mary Oben, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, taught for many years at Howard University. An early Edith Stein scholar, she translated Stein's Essays on Woman and authored Edith Stein: Scholar, Feminist, Saint. Her latest work, an album of seven tapes, Edith Stein as a Saintfor OurTimes, will be published as a book byAlba House in 2000, entitled The Life and Thought of Edith Stein. This paper was originally given as a talk at the Edith Stein Center at Spalding University . Pierre Ullman is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee, having taught also for short periods at Princeton, Rutgers, the University of California at Davis, and the University of Minnesota. He has published two books and several articles on all periods of Spanish literature. He has particular inter- CONTRIBUTOR NOTES I99 ests in relating literary tendencies to parallel ones in the other arts, and in analysis by means offivefold polysemy, as formulated by Juan Pérez de Moya in ? ç8t and Northrup Frye in 19C7. He was for nine years the onlyAmerican on the panel ofjudges ofthe yearly literary contests of the Universal Esperanto Association. Archbishop Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuân is president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Born in Hue, Vietnam, Archbishop Van Thuân was appointed archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) during the closing months of the Vietnam War. He was imprisoned for thirteen years, from 197 c to 1988, by Communist authorities who opposed his appointment as archbishop. He spent nine of his prison years in solitary confinement. He was never charged with or tried for a crime...