Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Geir Afdal is professor of religious education at the Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo. His books in English translation include The Maze of Tolerance.
Amanda Anderson, Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University and director of the School of Criticism and Theory, is the author of The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory; Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle; The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment; and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture.
Kristin Asdal is professor of science, technology, and culture at the University of Oslo. She is coeditor (with Ingunn Moser) of Experiments in Context and Contexting and Politikkens natur—Naturens politikk.
David Blackbourn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. His books, which have appeared in eleven languages, include The Conquest of Nature, which received the Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association; 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.
G. W. Bowersock is professor emeritus of ancient history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; honorary fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many books include Hellenism in Late Antiquity, for which he received the Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association; Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire; Roman Arabia; Fiction as History; Mosaics as History; Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity; and The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam. East and West: Papers in Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock was published by Harvard University Press in 2008.
Rebecca Bushnell holds the School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers Professorship of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles’ 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, was recently elected to the Orden pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former president of the American Historical Association, and a former MacArthur Fellow, she 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. [End Page 193]
William M. Chace is president emeritus of Emory University and honorary professor emeritus of English at Stanford. 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; Making It New; and James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Alberto Corsín Jiménez, senior scientist at the Spanish National Research Council, is the author of An Anthropological Trompe L’oeil for a Common World: An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge, as well as editor of The Anthropology of Organizations and Culture and Wellbeing: Anthropological Approaches to Freedom and Political Ethics. His book The Strabismic Polity is forthcoming.
Colin Davis, professor of French at Royal Holloway, University of London, is the author of Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek, and Cavell; Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence; Scenes of Love and Murder: Renoir, Film, and Philosophy; Ethical Issues in Twentieth-Century French Fiction; Elie Wiesel’s Secretive Texts; and Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction.
Natalie Zemon Davis received the US National Humanities Medal in 2013, the Holberg International Memorial Prize for the humanities in 2010, and the Toynbee Prize for social science in 1999. She is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History emerita at Princeton University, adjunct professor of history at the University of Toronto, and a fellow of...
