Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen is the author of 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.
Caroline Walker Bynum, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 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 Wonderful Blood; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Jesus as Mother; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336.
Lesley Chamberlain’s book Nietzsche in Turin has appeared in Chinese and five European languages. Her other books include The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia, In the Communist Mirror, Volga Volga: A Journey down the Great River, and The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud.
Mita Choudhury, associate professor of history at Vassar College, is the author of Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century Politics and Culture and coauthor, with Steven Ozment, of Microhistory: The Girard/Cadière Affair. Her article “Carnal Quietism” appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Michael Cook is University Professor in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award. His many books include Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought; Early Muslim Dogma; Population Pressure in Rural Anatolia, 1450–1600; A Brief History of the Human Race; and (with Patricia Crone) Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World.
Michael Fagenblat, lecturer in Jewish civilization at Monash University, is the author of A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas’ Philosophy of Judaism (forthcoming) and coeditor of New Under the Sun: Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics, and Culture.
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. He is professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford University and professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University.
Maud W. Gleason is lecturer in classics at Stanford University and the author of Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome. [End Page 316]
Philip Gossett, recipient of the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award and book prizes from the American Musicological Society and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, is Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Awarded the Italian government’s highest civilian honor, the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, he is general editor of both The Works of Giuseppe Verdi and The Works of Gioachino Rossini, as well as the author of Divas and Scholars and other books on Italian opera and textual scholarship.
Haizi is the pen name of Zha Haisheng (1964–89), who was a key figure in the development of Chinese modernism and especially the “underground poetry movement” of the 1980s. Gerald Maa teaches Asian American studies, English, and creative writing at the University of Maryland. His translations of Haizi have appeared or are forthcoming in Circumference, Calque, Poetry Northwest, and Chinese Writers on Writing.
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.
Andrea R. Jain is a lecturer in religious studies at the University of Houston and a public-scholar fellow at the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance, Rice University.
Stanley N. Katz, president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, founded and directs the Princeton University Center on Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. He has also served as president of the Organization of American Historians and of the American Society for Legal History. He is coauthor, most recently, of Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine, and is...
