Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen’s books include Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience; Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts; and Vanishing into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition. He teaches philosophy at McMaster University and is associate editor of Common Knowledge for philosophy and politics.
Ana Almeida, a member of the Institute for the Philosophy of Language at the New University of Lisbon, writes on amateurs, inseparability, and family.
David Bellos is professor of French, Italian, and comparative literature at Princeton University and a recipient of the Prix Goncourt de la Bibliographie and the Man Booker International Translator’s Award. His books include Georges Perec: A Life in Words, Jacques Tati: His Life and Art, Romain Gary: A Tall Story, and Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, as well as translations of works by Perec, Gary, Georges Simenon, and Ismail Kadare.
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 its Kenyon Medal in 1995. Editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art, his other books include The Triumph of Dionysos; 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.
Rebecca Bushnell, Board of Overseers Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles’s 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.
Caroline Walker Bynum, professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor emerita at Columbia University, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former president of the American Historical Association, and a former MacArthur Fellow. Recently elected to the Orden pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, she is the author of Jesus as Mother; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200–1336; Metamorphosis and Identity; Wonderful Blood; and Christian Materiality.
Eric Chevillard’s novels in English translation include On the Ceiling, Palafox, Prehistoric Times, Demolishing Nisard, and The Crab Nebula, which received the Fénéon Prize for Literature. Alyson Waters is a lecturer in French at Yale University and managing editor of Yale French Studies. She also teaches literary translation at New York and Columbia Universities. Her translation of Eric Chevillard’s Prehistoric Times received the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. [End Page 172]
Adam Cohen, associate professor of art history at the University of Toronto and currently coeditor of Gesta, is the author of The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany and 100 Illustrated Haggadot (forthcoming).
Colin Davis is research professor of French at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek, and Cavell; Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction; Elie Wiesel’s Secretive Texts; Ethical Issues in Twentieth-Century French Fiction; Scenes of Love and Murder: Renoir, Film, and Philosophy; and Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence.
Kathy Eden, Chavkin Professor of English Literature and professor of classics at Columbia University, is the author of The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy; Friends Hold All Things in Common: Tradition, Intellectual Property, and the “Adages” of Erasmus; Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition; and Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition.
Michael Fagenblat is a lecturer in philosophy and Jewish thought at Shalem College in Jerusalem, the first liberal arts college in Israel. He is the author of A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas’s Philosophy of Judaism and a coeditor of New under the Sun: Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics, and Culture.
Sara Forsdyke is professor of classical studies and of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient...
