Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Shamshad Abdullaev is a leading figure in the Fergana school of Russian-language Uzbek poetry. He has been awarded the Andrei Bely Prize and the Russkaya Premiya of the Boris Yeltsin Center. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Pered mestnost’iu (Before Location), as well as two volumes of prose.
Polina Barskova, Catherine Ciepiela, Susanne Frank, Pavel Khazanov, James McGavran, Ariel Resnikoff, Michael Wachtel, and Leonid Yanovskiy teach, respectively, at Hampshire College, Amherst College, Humboldt University in Berlin, the European University Institute in Florence, Kenyon College, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and the University of West Florida.
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, author of The Bear Who Ate the Stars, is completing her PhD dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alexandra Tatarsky is a performance artist and translator.
Val Vinokur is the author of The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas.
Matvei Yankelevich received the US National Translation Award in 2014.
Barry Allen is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; Artifice and Design; Vanishing into Things; and Striking Beauty.
David Bellos, a recipient of the Prix Goncourt de la Bibliographie and of the Man Booker International Translator’s Award, is Pyne Professor of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His books include The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of “Les Misérables”; Translation and the Meaning of Everything; Is That a Fish in Your Ear?; Georges Perec: A Life in Words; Jacques Tati: His Life and Art; and Romain Gary: A Tall Story; 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 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 in 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 Fellow in 1986–91 and, in 1996, president of the American Historical Association.
William P. Caferro is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His books include Contesting the Renaissance; Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena; and John Hawkwood, English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy, which received the Otto Grundler Prize of the International Medieval Congress.
Paul Cartledge, A. J. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture emeritus at Cambridge University, is presently Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. His eighteen books, translated into ten languages, include Democracy: A Life; Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History, 1300–362 BC; Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta; The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others; Democritus and Atomistic Politics; Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice; After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars; and the Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, which received the Criticos Prize of the London Hellenic Society.
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.
Adam S. Cohen, associate professor of medieval art history at the University of Toronto, is the author of The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany and Haggadah: One Hundred Artistic Treasures. He is...
