Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen’s books include 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. His monograph-length article “The Cloud of Knowing: Blurring the Difference with China” appeared in the Fall 2011 issue.
Frank Ankersmit is emeritus professor of intellectual history and philosophy of history at Groningen University and a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many books include Narrative Logic; History and Tropology; Political Representation; Aesthetic Politics; Sublime Historical Experience; and, most recently, Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation.
Paul Armstrong, professor of English at Brown University, is the author of Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form; Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation; The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford; The Phenomenology of Henry James; and (forthcoming) How Literature Plays with the Brain. He is editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Heart of Darkness and Howards End.
Tim Beasley-Murray is senior lecturer in European thought and culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and author of Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin: Experience and Form.
Jeffrey Berman, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the State University of New York, Albany, is the author of Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning and coauthor (with Patricia Hatch Wallace) of Cutting and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure.
Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy, which awarded him the Kenyon Medal in 1995. Editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art, his other books include The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity; The Greeks Overseas; The History of Greek Vases; and The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China: The “Ordos Bronzes,” Peter the Great’s Treasure, and Their Kin. He received the inaugural Onassis International Prize for Humanities in 2009.
Peter Bowler, professor emeritus of the history of science at Queen’s University, Belfast, is the author of Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey; Evolution: The History of an Idea; Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth-Century Britain; Life’s Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life’s Ancestry, 1860–1940; and Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence. He is a fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a past president of the British Society for the History of Science. [End Page 583]
Daniel Boyarin is Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture and professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity; Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics; Carnal Israel; Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism; and, most recently, The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ.
Bill Brown, a coeditor of Critical Inquiry, holds the Scherer Distinguished Service Chair in American Culture at the University of Chicago and directs the Object Cultures Project at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. His books include A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature; The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play; and (as editor) Things.
Rebecca Bushnell is Gates Professor of English and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles’ Theban Plays; Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance; A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice; and Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens.
Ardis Butterfield was recently appointed professor of English at Yale University. Her books include The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War, which received the R. H. Gapper Prize from the Society for French Studies, and Poetry and Music in Medieval France, from Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut. She is currently writing Chaucer: A London Life and a book on lyrics and...
