Notes on Contributors

Barry Allen, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is the author of Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene; Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; Art and Technology in Human Experience; Knowledge in Chinese Tradition; and Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts.Yuri Andrukhovych has received the Erich-Maria Remarque Peace Prize, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, the Angelus Central European Literary Award, the Vilenica International Literary Prize, the Herder Prize, and the Goethe Medal. His books include poetry collections (The Sky and Squares; Downtown; Exotic Birds and Plants; Songs for a Dead Rooster), novels (Recreations; The Moscoviad; Perverzion; Twelve Rings; Lovers of Justice; The Secret), a cycle of short stories (On the Left, Where the Heart Is), and essay collections (Disorientation on Location; The Devil's Hiding in the Cheese), which have been translated into twenty languages. He has published as well literary translations from German, Polish, Russian, and English (including Shakespeare's Hamlet) into Ukrainian. John Hennessy, senior lecturer in English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the author of two collections of poems and (with Ostap Kin) has translated Serhiy Zhadan's A New Orthography, which received the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. He is a recipient of Poetry magazine's John Frederick Nims Award for Poetry in Translation and is poetry editor of The Common.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.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; and The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.Thibault De Meyer's PhD dissertation at the University of Liège is titled “Le bestiaire de Brunelleschi. Le perspectivisme et sa réinvention en éthologie.”Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor emerita of Slavic and comparative literatures at Princeton University. Her books include The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin and (with Gary Saul Morson) Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics; The Life of Musorgsky; Boris Gudonov: Transpositions of a Russian Theme; and All the Same Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition.Nicholas Gaskill is associate professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color (2018) and coeditor (with A. J. Nocek) of The Lure of Whitehead (2014). He is currently writing a history of intensity as an aesthetic category and a study of pragmatist efforts in aesthetic education across literature, art, and philosophy.Simon Goldhill is professor of Greek literature and culture at Cambridge University; director of the Cambridge Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; and a fellow of King's College. He is also a fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The “Oresteia”; Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy; Reading Greek Tragedy; Love, Sex, and Tragedy; How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today; Who Needs Greek?; The Temple of Jerusalem; Jerusalem: City of Longing; Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity; The Poet's Voice; The Invention of Prose; and Foucault's Virginity.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 in Bar Ilan University's Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society.Richard Kieckhefer, John Evans Professor of Religious Studies and History emeritus at Northwestern University, is the author of Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu; European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300–1500; Magic in the Middle Ages, which has appeared in ten European and Asian languages; Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century; and Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley.Ostap Kin is the editor of Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond (forthcoming). He is the editor of New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City and Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond. With John Hennessy, he has cotranslated Serhiy Zhadan's A New Orthography, which received the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Other books that he has cotranslated from Ukrainian include Yuri Andrukhovych's Songs for a Dead Rooster and Vasyl Lozynsky's The Maidan after Hours.Iya Kiva's poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages, and she herself translates contemporary Ukrainian poetry into Russian, as well as Belarusian and Polish poetry and essays into Russian and Ukrainian. She has received, among other regional honors, the Yuriy Kaplan Literary Award, the Metaphora Prize for Translation, and the Nestor Letopisets Award. Maru Mushtrieva, the author of Book of Games and Services, a collection of performative scripts, is also a text and sound artist, curator, and translator. Eugene Ostashevsky, a poet who teaches at New York University, has received the City of Münster Prize for European Poetry and the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association.György Konrád (1933–2019), a founding member of the Common Knowledge editorial board, was president of PEN-International and 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. Peter Sherwood, a freelance translator for the past fifty years, has taught Hungarian language, literature, and linguistics at the University of London and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.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.Kevin M. F. Platt is a professor of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths and the editor of Global Russian Cultures. His new book, Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders, is forthcoming.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.Richard Rorty (1931–2007) successively held chairs at Princeton University (in philosophy), the University of Virginia (in the humanities), and Stanford University (in comparative literature). He was a MacArthur fellow from 1981 to 1986. Among his most influential publications are The Linguistic Turn; Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Consequences of Pragmatism; Philosophy and Social Hope; Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity; Achieving Our Country; and four volumes of Philosophical Papers.Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Braxton Craven Professor of English and Comparative Literature emerita at Duke University and founder of its Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her books include Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory; Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy; Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human; Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion; and, most recently, Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene.G. Thomas Tanselle, who was vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1978 to 2006, is coeditor (with Harrison Hayford and 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; Descriptive Bibliography, and Books in My Life. In 2015 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in London.Chris Voparil, founding president of the Richard Rorty Society, teaches in the graduate faculty of Union Institute and University. He is the author of Reconstructing Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Classical Pragmatists and Richard Rorty: Politics and Vision, as well as coeditor of The Rorty Reader; Pragmatism and Justice; and two posthumous books by Rorty: On Philosophy and Philosophers: Unpublished Papers, 1960–2000, and What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics.Serhiy Zhadan, the author of twelve poetry collections and seven novels in Ukrainian, was nominated this year for the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Polish Academy of Sciences. Among the dozen awards that he has received are the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Prize, the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Decade Award, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the Brücke Berlin Prize, the Angelus Central European Literary Award, and the Ukrainian president's Book of the Year Award. His works have appeared in seventeen languages: those in English translation include Voroshilovgrad; A New Orthography; What We Live For, What We Die For; Depeche Mode; Mesopotamia; and The Orphanage. In addition, he is front man and lyricist for the ska-punk band Zhadan and the Dogs, with which he has released five albums.

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