Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen teaches philosophy at McMaster University and is associate editor of Common Knowledge for philosophy and politics. His publications include Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; and Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience. He recently completed a book on Chinese philosophy of knowledge.
Paul Armstrong, professor of English at Brown University, is the author of The Phenomenology of Henry James; The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford; Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form; and Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation.
Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy. He is the editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art and the author of The History of Greek Vases and The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity. He has received the Onassis Prize for Humanities and the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies.
Sissela Bok, senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, is the author of Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science, Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir, A Strategy for Peace, Mayhem, Common Values, Secrets, and Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life, for which she received the George Orwell Award.
Brett Bourbon, who has taught at Stanford University and teaches currently at the University of Dallas, is the author of Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Meaning and Mind in Literature and Philosophy. He recently completed a book on the rationality of description and is now writing on war and culture.
Caroline Walker Bynum, formerly a MacArthur Fellow, is professor of history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor Emerita at Columbia. She is the author of Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond; 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. A past president of the American Historical Association and of the Medieval Academy, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
William M. Chace is president emeritus of Emory University and professor of English there. His books include The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot and Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics. He is the editor of a poetry anthology, Justice Denied: The Black Man in White America, and a collection of essays on James Joyce. [End Page 578]
Stuart Clark, the author of Thinking with Demons and Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture, is a fellow of the British Academy and professor of cultural and intellectual history at the University of Wales, Swansea.
Mikhail Epstein, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, is the author of fifteen books, including After the Future, Trans-cultural Experiments, and Cries in the New Wilderness: From the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism. He has received the Liberty Prize for his "outstanding contribution to the development of Russian-U.S. cultural relations," the Andrei Belyi Prize of St. Petersburg, and the International Essay Prize of Weimar for "Chronocide," which appeared in the Spring 2003 issue of Common Knowledge.
Bernard Faure is Kao Professor of Japanese Religion and director of the Center for Japanese Religion at Columbia University. His books in English include The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism; The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism; Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition; The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender; Double Exposure: Cutting across Buddhist and Western Discourses; The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality; Unmasking Buddhism; and Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism.
Amy M. King is the author of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel and assistant professor of English at St. John's University. She is completing a book titled Reverent Form: Natural History and Natural Theology in the British Novel, 1789-1867.
Jee Leong Koh, born in Singapore, is the author of two books of poems, Payday Loans and...
