Notes on Contributors

Barry Allen teaches philosophy at McMaster University. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy.

Wayne Andersen, painter, corporate art consultant, and architect of the King Khaled Mosque in Riyadh, was professor of art history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1965 to 1985, and on occasion visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia, and Yale Universities. His most recent books are Picasso's Brothel and Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Vulture's Tail.

Yves Bonnefoy, professor at the Collège de France, is generally considered the most influential French poet of the last half century. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1987. James Petterson is the author of Postwar Figures of L'Ephémère: Yves Bonnefoy, Louis-René des Forêts, Jacques Dupin, André du Bouchet and is an assistant professor of French at Wellesley College.

Caroline Walker Bynum, formerly a MacArthur Fellow and University Professor at Columbia University, has recently accepted a professorship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her books include Metamorphosis and Identity, Jesus as Mother, Holy Feast and Holy Fast, Fragmentation and Redemption, and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity: 200-1336.

Charles-Albert Cingria (1883-1954) was among the favorite writers of Stravinsky, Cocteau, Claudel, and Henry Miller. His untranslated works include the novels Les Autobiographies de Brunon Pomposo, La Grande Ourse, and La Reine Berthe; a study of medieval music, La Civilisation de Saint-Gall; and the chapbooks Pendeloques alpestres, Le Seize Juillet, Le Canal exutoire, Les Impressions d'un passant à Lausanne, and L'Eau de la dixième milliaire. A collection of scholarly essays, Erudition et liberté: L'univers de Charles-Albert Cingria, has recently been published, along with a volume of Correspondance avec Igor Strawinsky. Sasha Watson has translated and written on Joyce Mansour and is now coauthoring a book on Zukovsky and Apollinaire.

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Princeton University. She is coauthor of Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics and has also written on Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, the Russian critical tradition, and Russian music.

Clifford Geertz's books include Available Light, After the Fact, Local Knowledge, Negara, and The Interpretation of Cultures. His Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Stanley N. Katz, president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, teaches at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and is founding director of the Princeton University Center on Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. He has also served as president of the Organization of American Historians and of the American Society for Legal History. He is coauthor, most recently, of Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine, and editor-in-chief of the multivolume Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History (forthcoming).

Aileen Kelly is lecturer in Slavonic studies at Cambridge University and a fellow of King's College. Her books include Mikhail Bakunin: The Politics and Psychology of Utopianism, Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers between Necessity and Chance, and Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin.

Jesse M. Lander, assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, is currently writing on the connections among print technology, religious polemic, and literary form in early modern England.

Adam Michnik cofounded the 1976 Workers' Defense Committee, the earliest dissident institution in Eastern Europe, and has been editor-in-chief of the first independent Polish daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, since its inception in 1989. His books include Letters from Prison. He has received, among other prizes, the 1982 Freedom Award of P.E.N. in France, the 1986 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, and the 1996 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Prize for Journalism and Democracy. An earlier version of his article for Common Knowledge appeared in Polish in Gazeta Wyborcza. Annette Dulzin has written on politics for the New York Times and, in Israel, for Yediot Aharonot.

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