Notes on Contributors

Paul Cartledge is Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus at Cambridge University and, currently, Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College. An honorary citizen of modern Sparta, he holds the Gold Cross of the Order of Honor awarded by the president of Greece. His books include Democracy: A Life; Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World; After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars; Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities; Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece; and Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice.William T. Cavanaugh, professor of Catholic studies and director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University, is coeditor of the journal Modern Theology. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including The Myth of Religious Violence and The Uses of Idolatry, which have appeared in seventeen languages.Ekhmetjan Osman's poetry has been immensely influential among two generations of Uyghur poets. Active in the Uyghur separatist movement in Xinjiang, he was forced into exile by the Chinese state in the mid-1990s. He lived in Syria for a decade, and two of his eight poetry collections were written in Arabic. Although he has translated the poems of Rumi, Adonis, Octavio Paz, Paul Celan, and Fernando Pessoa into Uyghur, the leading influences on his work are usually said to be Baudelaire and the French Symbolists. Ekhmetjan now lives in Canada. Joshua L. Freeman, a historian of modern China, is an assistant research fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Modern History in Taiwan. He is currently completing a monograph titled “The Poetry of Power: Uyghur National Culture in Twentieth-Century China.” His translation of the Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil's memoir Waiting to Be Arrested at Night was published in 2023.Omer Elmakais is a graduate student in history at Tel Aviv University, where she is research coordinator for the Faculty of Humanities.Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emerita of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Princeton, is the author of The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin; The Life of Musorgsky; Boris Gudonov: Transposition of a Russian Theme; All the Same Words Don't Go Away; and (with Gary Saul Morson) Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics.Leela Gandhi is John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English, and director of the Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women, at Brown University. She is founding coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies and a senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. Her publications include The Common Cause; Affective Communities; Postcolonial Theory; and Measures of Home: Selected Poems. She is currently writing a mixed-genre work on the modernity of nonviolence.Anna Harrison, professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, is the author of Thousands and Thousands of Lovers: Sense of Community among the Nuns of Helfta.John Stratton Hawley is Claire Tow Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include several that focus on the worship of Krishna and Radha: At Play with Krishna: Pilgrimage Dramas from Brindavan; SurDas: Poet, Singer, Saint; Krishna, the Butter Thief; and The Memory of Love: Surdas Sings to Krishna. Other books explore broader themes in Hindu poetry and hagiography and in modern Hindu religion, notably Songs of the Saints of India and Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Time and Ours. Several edited volumes deal with women and goddesses, while others are broadly comparative, such as Fundamentalism and Gender; The Life of Hinduism (with Vasudha Narayanan); and Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (with Kimberley Patton). Recent books on the bhakti traditions include A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement; Sur's Ocean; and a poem-by-poem commentary called Into Sur's Ocean.Tamar Herzig, Konrad Adenauer Professor of Comparative European History at Tel Aviv University, is the author of Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy; “Christ Transformed into a Virgin Woman”: Lucia Brocadelli, Heinrich Institoris, and the Defense of the Faith; and A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy.Jacqueline E. Jung is professor of the history of art and medieval studies at Yale University and the author of Eloquent Bodies: Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture and The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany. In 2016, she received the Wissenschaftspreis of the Aby Warburg Foundation in Hamburg for her contributions to art historical scholarship.Richard Kieckhefer, John Evans Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Northwestern University, is the author of European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300–1500; Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germany; Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu; Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century; Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley; and Magic in the Middle Ages, which has been published in ten languages.Maureen C. Miller is Chancellor's Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a recent past-president of the Medieval Academy of America. She is the author of three prize-winning monographs: The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy; The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950–1150; and Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800–1200. In 2017, she edited a special centennial issue, dedicated to Catholic material culture, of the Catholic Historical Review.Cheryl Misak, University Professor and professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, is the author of Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers; Cambridge Pragmatism; The American Pragmatists; Truth and the End of Inquiry; and Truth, Politics, Morality.Yuliya Musakovska has written five prize-winning collections of poetry in Ukrainian, most recently The God of Freedom, and a bilingual collection, Iron, in Ukrainian and Polish. Her poems have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and she is herself a translator of poetry from Ukrainian and Swedish. Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko's film The Clay of 2016 featured poems and voice by Yuliya Musakovska, and in 2018 she presented a poetry-and-music project, Circulation, together with Taras Puzyr on bass guitar and Luka-Teodor Hanulyak on percussion. Olena Jennings is author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets, the chapbook Memory Project, and a novel, Temporary Shelter. Her translation from the Ukrainian of Vasyl Makhno's collection Paper Bridge appeared in 2022.Jeffrey M. Perl, the founder and editor of Common Knowledge, is the author of 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 emeritus of English literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a member, at Durham University in England, of the Center for Humanities Innovation.Bill Sherman is director of the Warburg Institute and professor of cultural history in the University of London School of Advanced Study. Formerly, he was head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is the author of Used Books: Marking Readers in the English Renaissance and John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance. He delivered “Decoding Shakespeare: Renaissance Ciphers and the Modern Search for Meaning” as the Oxford Wells Lectures of 2021.Jon Stone, professor of Russian at Franklin and Marshall College, is the author of The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism; Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s; and The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature. His translation of Andrei Bely's Symphonies appeared in 2021.

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