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Common Knowledge 11.3 (2005) 550-553



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Barry Allen, professor of philosophy at McMaster University, is the author of Truth in Philosophy and, recently, Knowledge and Civilization (with a preface by Richard Rorty).
Michael Baxandall is emeritus professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and emeritus professor of the history of the classical tradition at the Warburg Institute, University of London. His book The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany received the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. His other books include Words for Pictures, Patterns of Intention, Shadows and Enlightenment, Giotto and the Orators, Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence, and Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy.
Sissela Bok, senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, is the author of Lying, Secrets, Mayhem, Common Values, A Strategy for Peace, and Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir.
Rebecca Bushnell is the Thomas S. Gates Jr. Professor of English and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays, Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance, and A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice.
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 Jesus as Mother; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336.
David Cannadine is the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. A regular broadcaster on British television and radio, he is the author of The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, and In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain.
David Chinitz, the author of T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide, is associate professor of En-glish at Loyola University, Chicago.
Inga Clendinnen's books include Dancing With Strangers, which received the Kiriyama Prize for nonfiction; Reading the Holocaust, which was on the New York Times "best books of the year" list in 1999; and True Stories, originally delivered as Boyer Lectures for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She is also the author of Aztecs: An Interpretation and Tiger's Eye: A Memoir. She taught history for more than twenty years at La Trobe University. [End Page 550]
William Dalrymple, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, is the author of White Mughals, which received the Wolfson Prize for History in 2003. His other books include In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, and The Age of Kali. He also wrote and presented "Stones of the Raj" and "Indian Journeys," which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2002.
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 domacinov (Foreigner in the House of Natives). She recently translated Barren Harvest: Selected Poems by Dane Zajc.
Marshall P. Duke is the Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University. His books include Abnormal Psychology: A New Look, Inside Psychotherapy, Will I Ever Fit In?, Helping the Child Who Doesn't Fit In, What Works with Kids, and Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success.
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 on Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, the Russian critical tradition, and Russian music.
Jorge Franco received the Pedro Gómez Valderrama National Narrative Prize in Colombia for Maldito Amor, a collection of stories. His first novel, Mala Noche, won the Ciudad de Pereira National Novel Competition. His most recent book is Paraíso Travel. Thomas Christensen is the translator...

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