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Barry Allen is professor of philosophy at McMaster University. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy, Knowledge and Civilization, and (forthcoming) Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Existence.

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, and Manet: The Picnic and the Prostitute.

Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University, has also been director of research and analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906; Literary Criticism: An Autopsy; Whitman and the American Idiom; The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief; and (as a coauthor) Civil Rights Chronicle: The African American Struggle for Freedom.

Jerome Braun is author of The Humanized Workplace and editor or coeditor of Psychological Aspects of Modernity, Social Pathology in Comparative Perspective, and the recent issue of UNESCO's International Social Science Journal concerned with nation-building.

Helen Cooper, formerly head of the Oxford English Faculty, is now professor of medieval and Renaissance English literature at Cambridge University and a fellow of Magdalene College. She is author of The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare, Pastoral: Medieval into Renaissance, and The Structure of the Canterbury Tales.

Natalie Zemon Davis's books include The Return of Martin Guerre, Fiction in the Archives, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, Women on the Margins, Slaves on Screen, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France, and Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Toynbee Prize in social science, she is Henry Charles Lea Professor Emerita of History at Princeton University and professor emerita of history, anthropology, medieval studies, and comparative literature at the University of Toronto.

Erica Johnson Debeljak, an American writer, contributes regularly to newspapers and journals in Slovenia, where she now lives. She is the author of Tujka v hiši doma inov (Foreigner in the House of Natives) and has recently translated Barren Harvest: Selected Poems by Dane Zajc. [End Page 178]

Eagleton, formerly Warton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, is now Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester. A fellow of the British Terry Academy, his many books include Holy Terror, Heathcliff and the Great Hunger, The Meaning of Life, After Theory, and Literary Theory: An Introduction.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941-2007) received the National Humanities Medal at a White House ceremony in 2003. Among her many publications are Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South, Women and the Future of the Family, Feminism without Illusions, "Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life," Fruits of Merchant Capital, The Origins of Physiocracy, and (with Eugene Genovese) The Mind of the Master Class. She was Eléonore Raoul Professor in the Humanities and professor of history and women's studies at Emory University.

Joseph Frank's five-volume biography of Dostoevsky received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association, and the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa. He is professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford University and professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University.

Lionel Gossman, Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Emeritus at Princeton University, is author of Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment, Between History and Literature, Men and Masks: A Study of Molière, The Empire Unpossess'd, and Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas, which received the Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is professor of art history at Harvard University and author of Nuns as Artists, The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany, The Rothschild Canticles, and St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology. His...

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