Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Sissela Bok, senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, is the author of Secrets, Mayhem, Common Values, A Strategy for Peace, Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir, and Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life, for which she received the George Orwell Award.
J. M. Coetzee received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and has twice been recipient of the Booker Prize. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include Foe, Diary of a Bad Year, Slow Man, Elizabeth Costello, The Lives of Animals, Waiting for the Barbarians, Age of Iron, The Master of Petersburg, Life & Times of Michael K, Disgrace, Dusklands, In the Heart of the Country, White Writing, Giving Offense, Inner Workings, and Stranger Shores. Two volumes of his memoirs have been published: Boyhood (a chapter of which appeared in Common Knowledge) and Youth.
Clark Davis, professor of English at the University of Denver, is the author of Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement; After the Whale: Melville in the Wake of "Moby-Dick"; and The Strangeness of Reading: Finding William Goyen (forthcoming).
Natalie Zemon Davis's books include Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds, The Return of Martin Guerre, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, Women on the Margins, Slaves on Screen, and Fiction in the Archives. 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.
G. R. Evans is emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge and the author of Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates, The Church and the Churches, Wyclif, and Belief, among many other books. She has been a member both of the Archbishops' Group on the Episcopate and of the Faith and Order Advisory Group of the General Synod of the Church of England.
Lionel Gossman received the Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association for Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas, and his other books include Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment, Between History and Literature, Men and Masks: A Study of Molière, and The Empire Unpossess'd. He is Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Emeritus at Princeton University.
Paul J. Griffiths holds the Warren Foundation Chair in Catholic Theology at the Duke University Divinity School and is the author of On Being Mindless: Buddhist Meditation and the Mind-Body Problem, On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood, Problems of Religious Diversity, The Vice of Curiosity, Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity, Religious Reading, An Apology for Apologetics, and Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar (forthcoming). Among the several books that he has edited or coedited are Christianity through Non-Christian Eyes, Japanese Buddhism, and The Realm of Awakening: A Translation and Study of Chapter Ten of Asanga's "Mahayanasangraha." [End Page 154]
Alick Isaacs teaches at the Melton Center of the Hebrew University and is a scholar at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, completing a book on peace, prophecy, and Judaism. He is associate editor of Common Knowledge for history, religion, and special projects.
Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883–1951) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as translator of some seventy novels from English, French, and Russian into German. Novels and story collections available in English include The Runaway Countess; We Poor Shadows; Came the Stranger; Our Daughters, the Nazis; and Fairy Tales for Workers' Children.
Jeffrey M. Perl, author of Skepticism and Modern Enmity, The Tradition of Return: The Implicit History of Modern Literature, and monographs on Friedrich Schlegel, Mallarmé, and T. S. Eliot, taught for many years at Columbia University and at the University of Texas and is now professor of English literature at Bar-Ilan University. He is the founder and editor of Common Knowledge.
Marjorie Perloff is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former president of the Modern...
