Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen's books include 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. His monograph-length article "The Cloud of Knowing: Blurring the Difference with China" appeared in the Fall 2011 issue.
Frank Ankersmit is emeritus professor of intellectual history and philosophy of history at Groningen University and a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of the Sciences. His many books include Narrative Logic; History and Tropology; Political Representation; Aesthetic Politics; Sublime Historical Experience; and, recently, Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation.
Ermanno Bencivenga, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, is the author of Looser Ends: The Practice of Philosophy; A Theory of Language and Mind; Logic and Other Nonsense: The Case of Anselm and His God; The Discipline of Subjectivity: An Essay on Montaigne; Kant's Copernican Revolution; My Kantian Ways; Ethics Vindicated: Kant's Transcendental Legitimation of Moral Discourse; and Hegel's Dialectical Knowledge.
Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy, which awarded him the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies in 1995. Editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art, his other books include The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity; The Greeks Overseas; The History of Greek Vases; and The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China: The "Ordos Bronzes," Peter the Great's Treasure, and Their Kin. He received the inaugural Onassis International Prize for Humanities in 2009.
Peter Burke, professor of cultural history emeritus at Cambridge University and a fellow of Emmanuel College, is the author of 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; The Renaissance Sense of the Past; and The Art of Conversation. His books have appeared in twenty-eight languages.
Ardis Butterfield, recently a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, is professor of English at University College London. She is the author of The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War, which received the R. H. Gapper Prize from the Society for French Studies, and Poetry and Music in Medieval France, from Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut. She is currently writing, with the support of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, a book on lyrics and lyric form in the European Middle Ages, as well as a biography of Chaucer. [End Page 382]
Caroline Walker Bynum, formerly a MacArthur Fellow, is professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, University Professor Emerita at Columbia, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A former president of the American Historical Association, her books include Jesus as Mother; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200-1336; Metamorphosis and Identity; and, most recently, Wonderful Blood, which has received the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in Historical Studies.
William M. Chace is president emeritus of Emory University and professor of English emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics; and 100 Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way.
Inga Clendinnen's books include Dancing with Strangers, which received the Kiriyama Prize for nonfiction; Reading the Holocaust, which was a New York Times "best book of the year" in 1999; True Stories, originally delivered as Boyer Lectures for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; and The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society, which received the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. She is also the author of Aztecs: An Interpretation; Tiger's Eye: A Memoir; and, most recently, Agamemnon's Kiss. She taught history for more than twenty years at La Trobe University.
Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity and director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University...
