Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen, an associate editor of Common Knowledge, is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His books include Vanishing into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition; Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts; Knowledge and Civilization; Artifice and Design; and Truth in Philosophy.
Alexandra Berlina received the Anna Balakian Prize of the International Comparative Literature Association for her book Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation. She is the editor of Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader, for which she did new translations both of familiar texts and of important work that had not yet been available in English.
David Blackbourn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany; The Long Nineteenth Century; Populists and Patricians; and Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany.
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 Greeks in Asia; The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity; The Greeks Overseas; The Triumph of Dionysos; 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.
Caroline Walker Bynum, professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor emerita at Columbia, is the author of Christian Materiality; Wonderful Blood; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200–1336; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and Jesus as Mother. She was a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1986–91 and, in 1996, the president of the American Historical Association.
William M. Chace is president emeritus of Emory University and honorary professor emeritus of English at Stanford University. His books include One Hundred Semesters; Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics; The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; and (as editor), Justice Denied: The Black Man in White America and James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Keti Chukhrov, associate professor of art theory and cultural studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities and head of the research department at the State Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, is the author of To Be and to Perform: The Concept of “Theater” in Philosophical Criticism of Art; Pound and £; and two volumes of dramatic poetry, Just People and War of Quantities. Her video plays, Love Machines and Communion, have been featured, [End Page 176] respectively, at the Visual Culture Research Center in Kiev and at the eighth Ljubljana Triennial of Contemporary Art. Julia Bloch directs the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania, where Ariel Resnikoff also teaches; Marijeta Bozovic is assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Yale University; Ainsley Morse lectures on Russian literature at Dartmouth College; Stephanie Sandler is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Literature at Harvard University; Bela Shayevich is an artist and the translator of Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich; and Alexandra Tatarsky is a performance artist and a translator from Spanish as well as Russian.
Richard H. Davis, professor of religion and Asian studies at Bard College, is the author of The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography; Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Siva in Medieval India; Lives of Indian Images; Global India, circa 100 CE: South Asia in Early World History; and A Priest’s Guide for the Great Festival.
Thibault De Meyer is a PhD candidate at the Free University of Brussels, writing on the relationship between perspectivism and contemporary scientific practice in ethology and animal psychology.
Caryl Emerson, University Professor Emerita of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Princeton University, is the author of The Life of Musorgsky; Boris Gudonov: Transpositions of a Russian Theme; The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin; and (with Gary Saul Morson) Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics.
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