Notes on Contributors

Barry Allen is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at McMaster and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Empiricisms; Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; Artifice and Design; Vanishing into Things; and Striking Beauty.Carol Any, professor of language and culture studies at Trinity College, Connecticut, is the author of The Soviet Writers’ Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority Under Stalin; and Boris Eikhenbaum: Voices of a Russian Formalist.Andrew Beatty is reader in anthropology at Brunel University London. His books include Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion; A Shadow Falls: In the Heart of Java; Varieties of Javanese Religion; Society and Exchange in Nias; and After the Ancestors: An Anthropologist's Story.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.Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus at Cambridge University and Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of some thirty books, translated into eleven languages, including Democracy: A Life; Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities; Thebes: Forgotten City of Ancient Greece; After Thermopylae; Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice; Democritus and Atomistic Politics; Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past; Aristophanes and His Theater of the Absurd; Hellenistic and Roman Sparta; Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta; and Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History, 1300–362 BC.Thibault De Meyer recently defended his dissertation, “Le bestiaire de Brunelleschi: Le perspectivisme et sa réinvention en éthologie,” at the University of Liège.Paul Demont is professor emeritus of ancient Greek at the Sorbonne. His extensive publications on archaic and classical literature and its reception include La cité grecque archaïque et classique et l'idéal de tranquillité and a new edition of Sophocles's Ajax with translation and commentary.Oliver Dowlen is an independent researcher affiliated with the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). Among his publications are The Political Potential of Sortition and “Citizens’ Parliamentary Groups: A Proposal for Democratic Participation at Constituency Level.”Mikhail Epstein, the Samuel Candler Dodds Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University and founder of the Center for Humanities Innovation at Durham University in England, is the author of more than thirty books and seven hundred articles, published in English or Russian and translated into eighteen other languages. He is a recipient of the Liberty Prize for Russian-US Cultural Relations and the International Essay Prize of Weimar for “Chronocide,” which appeared in the spring 2003 issue of Common Knowledge.Charles Foster is a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford; a visiting professor in the Oxford Law Faculty (he is a practicing barrister and a part-time judge); and a research associate in the Oxford Faculties of Philosophy and Medicine. His many books include A Little Brown Sea; The Screaming Sky; Being a Beast; and Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness.Howard Earl Gardner, the Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1981 to 1986 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received honorary degrees from thirty-one colleges and universities on four continents and has won the Prince of Asturias Award in Social Sciences, the William James Award of the American Psychological Association, and several major awards for research in education. His more than thirty books, translated into more than thirty languages, include Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences; Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons; Changing Minds; TheDevelopment and Education of the Mind; Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed; and his intellectual autobiography, A Synthesizing Mind.Inbar Graiver, managing editor of Common Knowledge, is the author of Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism.Rachel Hadas is the Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and author of more than twenty books, including the poetry collections The Golden Road; Poems for Camilla; Questions in the Vestibule; and The Ache of Appetite. She has received the award for literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Hardison Poetry Prize of the Folger Shakespeare Library.James H. Johnson, professor of history at Boston University and an affiliate of the BU Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, is the author of Listening in Paris: A Cultural History, which received the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association and the Jacques Barzun Prize of the American Philosophical Society. His book Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic received the AHA's George L. Mosse Award. He is currently writing Disguised Intentions: Concealment in the City of Light.Jeffrey M. Perl is the founder and editor of Common Knowledge. His 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.” He taught for many years at Columbia University and the University of Texas and is now professor of English literature emeritus at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a member, at Durham University in England, of the Center for Humanities Innovation.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. A recipient of the Inez Boulton Award of Poetry magazine, she has taught in several creative writing programs, including Stanford University's, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow.

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