Notes on Contributors

Nabila Abbas is the author of Das Imaginäre und die Revolution: Tunesien in revolutionären Zeiten. She teaches currently at the University of Paris-Est Créteil.Barry Allen, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is the author of Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; Art and Technology in Human Experience; Knowledge in Chinese Tradition; Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts; and Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene.David Bellos, an officer of the French National Order of Arts and Letters, is the Pyne Professor of French Literature and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, where he founded and for many years directed the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. His books include Georges Perec: A Life in Words, for which he received the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie; The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of “Les Misérables,” for which he received the American Library in Paris Book Award; Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything; Romain Gary: A Tall Story; Jacques Tati: His Life and Art; Balzac Criticism in France, 1850–1900; and a translation of works by Ismail Kadare, for which he received the Man Booker International Prize.Terrill G. Bouricius, the author of several articles proposing the reform of democratic governance, served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1991 to 2001 as a member of the Vermont Progressive Party. From 1981 to 1991, he was a member of the city council of Burlington, Vermont, and served one term as its president when the city's mayor was Bernie Sanders, a political ally.Caroline Walker Bynum is professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and University Professor emerita at Columbia. She was a MacArthur Fellow in 1986–91 and, in 1996, president of the American Historical Association. Her books include Dissimilar Similitudes; 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.Francis X. Clooney, SJ, is the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and president-elect of the Catholic Theological Society of America. A fellow of the British Academy, his many books include Hindu God, Christian God; His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence; Learning Interreligiously; Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders; Beyond Compare; Seeing through Texts: Doing Theology among the Srivaisnavas of South India; Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary; and Theology after Vedanta.Thibault De Meyer is completing a PhD in ethology at the University of Liège.Oren Harman is the author of The Man Who Invented the Chromosome, The Price of Altruism, and Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World, among other books. He is a senior fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and a professor at Bar Ilan University's Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society.Casper Bruun Jensen, currently living in Phnom Penh, is the author of Ontologies for Developing Things and the coauthor (with Britt Ross Winthereik) of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid. He is a coeditor of Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, Anthropology and of Infrastructures and Social Complexity.György Konrád (1933–2019), a founding member of the Common Knowledge editorial board, was a president of PEN-International and of the Berlin Akademie der Künste. Among his novels in English translation are The Loser; The Case Worker; A Feast in the Garden; and The Stone Dial; his essay collections include The Melancholy of Rebirth and The Invisible Voice. But he was best-known for his book Antipolitics, widely regarded as the key manifesto of dissidents during the years preceding the 1989 revolutions in the Soviet bloc. He was a recipient of the Goethe Medal, the Herder Prize, the Hungarian state Kossuth Prize, the Charles Veilion Prize, the Hans Werfel Human Rights Award, the European Essay Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, the Maecenas Prize, the Manès-Sperber Prize, and the highest state distinctions awarded by France and Germany. Jim Tucker, originally a classical philologist, now lives in Budapest and translates Hungarian, Russian, German, Italian, and French texts into English.Jack Miles, a former MacArthur Fellow and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine, received the Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography. His other books include God in the Qur'an; Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God; and Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story. He is general editor of the 4,000-page Norton Anthology of World Religions.Matthew Mutter, associate professor and director of the literature program at Bard College, is the author of Restless Secularism: Modernism and the Religious Inheritance.Jeffrey M. Perl's books include Skepticism and Modern Enmity: Before and after Eliot; The Tradition of Return: The Implicit History of Modern Literature; and (as editor) Peace and Mind: Civilian Scholarship from “Common Knowledge.” The founder and editor of Common Knowledge, he taught for many years at Columbia University and the University of Texas and is now professor emeritus of English literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel and a member, at Durham University in England, of the Center for Humanities Innovation.Marjorie Perloff, Sadie Patek Professor of the Humanities emerita at Stanford University, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and former president of the Modern Language Association. She is the author of Wittgenstein's Ladder and the editor and translator of Wittgenstein's Private Notebooks: 1914–1916. Her many other books include Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire; The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir; Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics; The Futurist Moment; The Poetics of Indeterminacy; Radical Poetics; Poetry on and off the Page; The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Pound Tradition; Unoriginal Genius; and Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy, which received the Robert Penn Warren Prize for literary criticism in 2005.Kevin M. F. Platt is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths, and History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution, as well as the editor of Global Russian Cultures and coeditor (with David Brandenberger) of Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda.Belle Randall has been poetry editor of Common Knowledge since its inception. Her poem “A Child's Garden of Gods” is included in the anthology The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of “Poetry” Magazine. Her books include 101 Different Ways of Playing Solitaire and Other Poems; The Orpheus Sedan; Drop Dead Beautiful; and The Coast Starlight. She is coeditor (with Richard Denner) of Exploding Flowers: Selected Poems of Luis Garcia. A recipient of the Inez Boulton Award of Poetry magazine, and the Anthony Hecht Prize of Waywiser Press, she has taught in several creative writing programs, including Stanford University's, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow.Colin Richmond is professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Keele and author of John Hopton: Fifteenth-Century Suffolk Gentleman and a three-volume history of the Paston family in fifteenth-century Norfolk.Yves Sintomer is professor of political science at the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques of the University of Paris 8 and, in Oxford, a visiting researcher at Nuffield College. He has been deputy director of the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin and a senior fellow at the French University Institute. His books, which appear in eighteen languages, include The Government of Chance: Sortition and Democracy from Athens to the Present; Participatory Budgeting in Europe: Democracy and Public Governance (coauthored with Carsten Herzberg and Anja Röcke); and (as coeditor, with Liliane Lopez-Rabatel) Sortition and Democracy: Practices, Tools, Theories.Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Braxton Craven Professor emerita of English and comparative literature at Duke University and founder of its Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, is a recipient of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa, the Explicator Literary Foundation Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Her many books include Contingencies of Value; Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy; On the Margins of Discourse; Scandalous Knowledge; Poetic Closure; Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion; and Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene.Miguel Tamen, dean of the School of Arts and Humanities and professor of literary theory at the University of Lisbon, is the author of What Art Is Like, in Constant Reference to the Alice Books; Friends of Interpretable Objects; Manners of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies; and The Matter of the Facts: On Invention and Interpretation.G. Thomas Tanselle, who was vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1978 to 2006, is coeditor (with Hershel Parker) of the Northwestern-Newberry edition of The Writings of Herman Melville. His other publications include A Rationale of Textual Criticism; Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing; Textual Criticism since Greg; Bibliographical Analysis: A Historical Introduction; Essays in Bibliographical History; and Literature and Artifacts.Liesl Yamaguchi, assistant professor of French at Boston College and a translator of scholarship into English from French and Finnish, has published widely on Mallarmé and modern French theory. She received the Ralph Cohen Prize of the journal New Literary History for her essay “On Saussure's Synesthesia.”

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