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Dionigi Albera, based at Aix-Marseille University, is a senior fellow of the French National Center for Scientific Research and the author of Au fil des generations: Terre, pouvoir et parente dans l'Europe alpine. He has coedited numerous books, including Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries; Dieu, une enquête: Judaïsme, christianisme, islam; International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies: Itineraries, Gaps, and Obstacles; Pellegrini del nuovo millennio; Reframing the History of Family and Kinship; and New Pathways in Pilgrimage Studies.

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: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition; and Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts.

Roberto Arlt (1900–42) pioneered the novel of the surreal and absurd in Argentina and has been highly influential on the development of Latin American fiction ("Let's say, modestly, that Arlt is Jesus Christ," Roberto Bolaño once suggested). Among Arlt's novels that have appeared in English are The Seven Madmen and The Flamethrowers. Los siete locos and El jugete rabioso have been the basis of Argentinian films. Nick Caistor has twice received the Valle Inclan translation award and has published biographies of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and Octavio Paz.

Adeena Assif teaches in the English department at Kay College in Beersheva. She also leads projects to promote dialogue, tolerance, and understanding between Bedouin and Jewish educators in Israel.

John Banville won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for his novel The Sea and is a recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Guardian Fiction Award. His most recent books include Mrs. Osmond; The Blue Guitar; Ancient Light; Infinities; and Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d'Italia, Banville publishes crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.

David Bellos, a recipient of the Prix Goncourt de la Bibliographie and the Man Booker International Translator's Award, is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where he directs the Program in Translation. His books include The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of "Les Misérables"; Georges Perec: A Life in Words; Jacques Tati: His Life and Art; Roman 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.

Jerome Braun is the author of The Humanized Workplace and Democratic Culture and Moral Character as well as editor or coeditor of Psychological Aspects of Modernity; Social Pathology in Comparative Perspective; and a special issue of the UNESCO International Social Science Journal on the dilemmas of nation-building. He has been a visiting scholar in sociology at Loyola University, Chicago, since 2014.

Peter Burke, a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society, is emeritus professor of cultural history at Cambridge University and a member of Academia Europaea. His many books include What is Cultural History?; A Social History of Knowledge; Eyewitnessing; History and Social Theory; The French Historical Revolution; The Fabrication of Louis XIV; Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe; The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy; The Renaissance Sense of the Past; and The Art of Conversation. His works have appeared in twenty-eight languages.

Ardis Butterfield, currently a visiting fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is the Marie Borroff Professor of English and professor of French and music at Yale University. Her books include Poetry and Music in Medieval France and Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War, which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and received the R. H. Gapper Prize of the Society for French Studies.

Dame Averil Cameron is professor of late antique and Byzantine history at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy. She was warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1994 to 2010 and is currently president of...

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