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.
Luc Brisson is a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. His books in English translation include How Philosophers Saved Myths; Plato the Myth Maker; Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity; and (with F. Walter Meyerstein) Inventing the Universe: Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge.
Caroline Walker Bynum, formerly a MacArthur Fellow, is professor of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor Emerita at Columbia. Her books include Christian Materiality; Jesus as Mother; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336; and Wonderful Blood, which received the Gründler Prize in medieval studies and the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in historical studies. A past president of the American Historical Association, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
William M. Chace, president emeritus of Emory University and professor of English there, is the author of One Hundred Semesters; Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics; The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; and (as editor) Making It New; Justice Denied: The Black Man in White America; and James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Michael Chase, the English translator of Pierre Hadot's books, is a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. He has also published French and English translations of classical Greek texts, notably Simplicius's commentary on Aristotle's Categories, and is currently preparing a translation of Isabelle Stengers's book Thinking with Whitehead.
Natalie Zemon Davis became, in 2010, the third member of the Common Knowledge editorial board to receive, from the Norwegian government, the Holberg International Memorial Prize for outstanding work in the humanities. Professor of medieval studies at the University of Toronto and Henry Charles Lea Professor Emerita of History at Princeton University, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former president of the American Historical Association. Her book The Return of Martin Guerre has appeared in twenty-two translations. She is also the author of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds; Fiction in the Archives; The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France; Society and Culture in Early Modern France; Slaves on Screen; and Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives. [End Page 581]
Jonathan Fine, professor of linguistics in the English department of Bar-Ilan University, is the author of How Language Works: Cohesion in Normal and Nonstandard Communication; Language in Psychiatry; and (with Beverly Lewin and Lynne Young) Expository Discourse: A Genre-Based Approach to Social Science Research Texts.
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 Prize of Phi Beta Kappa. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford University and professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University.
Philip Gossett, Reneker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, received the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in 2004 and was awarded the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, the Italian government's highest civilian honor, in 1990. He is the author of Divas and Scholars, which received the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society, and "Anna Bolena" and the Maturity of Gaetano Donizetti; he is also general editor of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi and The Works of Gioachino Rossini. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has served as president of both the American Musicological Society and the Society of Textual Scholarship.
Émilie Hache is associate professor of philosophy at Nanterre University and is the author of Ce à quoi nous tenons: Propositions pour une écologie pragmatique. Her article coauthored with Bruno Latour, "Morality or Moralism? An...
