Notes on Contributors

Barry Allen is the author of Truth in Philosophy and, recently, Knowledge and Civilization . He teaches at McMaster University.

Mordechai Bar-On, formerly a member of the Knesset and a colonel in the Israeli army, was a founder of Peace Now. He is currently a senior fellow of the Yad Ben Zvi Research Institute in Jerusalem. His books include The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back and In Pursuit of Peace: A History of the Israeli Peace Movement .

Charles Borkhuis is the author, most recently, of Alpha Ruins (poems) and Mouth of Shadows (plays). Savoir-Fear, another volume of poetry, is forthcoming this year. Two of his radio plays have been aired over National Public Radio in the United States; his most recently staged play is The Man in the Bowler Hat .

Rebecca Bushnell, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of 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 .

Colin Davis, until recently university lecturer in French at Oxford and fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is now professor of French studies at the University of Warwick. His books include Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction, Elie Wiesel's Secretive Texts, Levinas, and Ethical Issues in Twentieth-Century French Fiction .

Georges Didi-Huberman, professor of art history and theory at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, has written more than twenty books—most recently, Devant le temps: Histoire de l'art et anachronisme des images ; his Fra Angelico has appeared in English translation. He has also been curator of several exhibitions of contemporary art, including "L'Empreinte" at the Centre Pompidou. Vivian Rehberg is a curator at the Paris Museum of Modern Art and writes on contemporary art. Boris Belay is an editor of the Journal of Visual Culture .

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Princeton University. 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.

Mikhail Epstein's numerous books, including After the Future, Transcultural Experiments, and Cries in the New Wilderness: From the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism, have been translated into fourteen languages. He is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University and recipient of the Andrei Belyi Prize of St. Petersburg. He has also received the International Essay Prize of Weimar: "Chronocide," which appears in this issue of Common Knowledge, is a revised version of the prize-winning essay. Edward Skidelsky writes frequently for Prospect and the New Statesman.

Joseph Frank is professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford University and professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University. The five volumes of his recently completed biography of Dostoevsky have 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.

Andrew Gamble is professor of politics and director of the Political Economy Research Center at the University of Sheffield. His most recent book is Politics and Fate .

Glenn Holland holds the Bishop James Mills Thoburn Chair of Religious Studies at Allegheny College. His books include Divine Irony and The Tradition That You Received from Us: 2 Thessalonians in the Pauline Tradition, and he is coeditor of a volume of essays about Philodemus.

Linda Hutcheon, president of the Modern Language Association of America in 1999-2000, is University Professor at the University of Toronto. She is the author or coauthor of, among many other books, Opera: Desire, Disease, Death; Bodily Charm: Living Opera; The Politics of Postmodernism; Irony's Edge; and Splitting Images.

Ruth Mazo Karras, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, is the author of Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England, Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia, and most recently, From Boys to Men...