Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Anonymous, the author of "Quietism Now" in this issue, is a writer of fiction, literary theory, and criticism who believes it would be inappropriate to take credit for an essay on quietist belief.
Branka Arsić is associate professor of English at the State University of New York, Albany, and the author of Passive Constitutions or 7½ Times Bartleby, The Passive Eye: Gaze and Subjectivity in Berkeley (via Beckett), and On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson. She is coeditor (with Cary Wolfe) of The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths.
Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity, The History of Greek Vases, The World of Ancient Art, and (as editor) the Oxford History of Classical Art.
William M. Chace's most recent book is One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way. The author or editor of books on Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Lionel Trilling, he is president emeritus of Emory University.
Stuart Clark, a fellow of the British Academy, is emeritus professor of history at Swansea University and, recently, visiting professor at Princeton. His books include Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture, Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern History, and (as editor) Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology, and Meaning in Early Modern Culture.
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 Diary of a Bad Year, Slow Man, Elizabeth Costello, Waiting for the Barbarians, Age of Iron, The Master of Petersburg, Life & Times of Michael K, Disgrace, Foe, Dusklands, The Lives of Animals, In the Heart of the Country, White Writing, Giving Offense, Inner Workings, and Stranger Shores. Three volumes of his fictionalized memoirs have been published: Boyhood (a chapter of which appeared in Common Knowledge), Youth, and Summertime.
Fang Lizhi, former vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China, was named "most wanted counterrevolutionary criminal" by the Chinese authorities in 1989. Following a year's refuge in the U.S. embassy, he was permitted to emigrate and has since held positions at Cambridge University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and, currently, the University of Arizona, where he is professor of physics and astronomy. Recipient of the Nicholson Medal of the American Physical Society, the Freedom Award of the International Rescue Committee, and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, he is the author of more than 230 scientific papers and author, coauthor, or editor of twenty books, including Bringing Down the Great Wall: Writings on Science, Culture, and Democracy in China. [End Page 361]
Lionel Gossman, Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Emeritus at Princeton University, is the author of Basel in the Age of Burckhardt, which received the Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association, and Brownshirt Princess: A Study of the "Nazi Conscience," of which an early version appeared in Common Knowledge. His other books include Men and Masks, Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment, The Empire Unpossess'd, Between History and Literature, and The Making of a Romantic Icon.
Émilie Hache, researcher in charge of scientific humanities at the Institut d'Études Poli-tiques, is completing a doctorate on the moral philosophy of ecology at the University of Paris VIII. Patrick Camiller has translated books by Karl Popper, Che Guevara, Norman Manea, Ulrich Beck, and Dumitru Tepeneag, among many other authors, and is coeditor (with Perry Anderson) of Mapping the West European Left.
Ian Hacking, who received the Holberg International Memorial Prize for 2009, is professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Collège de France and University Professor at the University of Toronto. His books include The Social Construction of What?, Mad Travelers, Rewriting the Soul, Representing and Intervening, The Taming of Chance, The Emergence of Probability, The Logic of Statistical Inference, and Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?
Henry Kamen, fellow of the Royal Historical Society...
