Notes on Contributors

William M. Chace, president emeritus of Emory University and honorary professor emeritus of English at Stanford University, is the author of 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.Henk de Smaele is professor of history at the University of Antwerp and author (in Dutch) of Right-Wing Flanders: Religion and Voting Behavior in Nineteenth-Century Belgium. He cochairs the Belgian Archive and Research Center for Women's History and has published extensively on the history of gender and sexuality.Mikhail Epstein, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, is the author of forty-two books translated into twenty-six languages. His works in English include Ideas Against Ideocracy: Non-Marxist Thought of the Late Soviet Period; The Phoenix of Philosophy; A Philosophy of the Possible; The Irony of the Ideal: Paradoxes of Russian Literature; The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto; and After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture.Molly Farneth is professor of religion and chair of the department at Haverford College. She is the author of The Politics of Ritual and Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation.William Fitzgerald, a fellow of the British Academy, is professor emeritus of Latin language and literature at King's College London. His books include The Living Death of Antiquity: Neoclassical Aesthetics; Variety: The Life of a Roman Concept; How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet; and Martial: The World of the Epigram.László Földényi is a professor of art theory at the University of Theatre, Film, and Television in Budapest and is a member of the German Academy. His books in English include Melancholy; Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears; The Glance of the Medusa; and The Physiognomy of Mysticism. Ottilie Mulzet has translated some twenty books from Hungarian, including László Krasznahorkai's Herscht 07769.Erich S. Gruen, professor emeritus of history and classics at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of The Last Generation of the Roman Republic; Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome; Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition; Rethinking the Other in Antiquity; and Ethnicity in the Ancient World — Did it Matter?Oren Harman is the author of The Price of Altruism, which was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2010. His other books include Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History; Evolution: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World; Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology; Outsider Scientists; Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences; and Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. He is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and a professor in the Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Bar Ilan University.Daniel Kehlmann's novels and plays have received numerous awards, including the Candide Prize, the Heimito von Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Nestroy Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. His novel Tyll, translated by Ross Benjamin, was short-listed for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Measuring the World has been translated into more than forty languages.Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. His books include How to Think Impossibly; The Superhumanities; Secret Body; Mutants and Mystics; Authors of the Impossible; The Serpent's Gift; Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom; Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion; and Kali's Child, for which he received the American Academy of Religion Prize in the History of Religions.Peter T. Leeson is Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University and author of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates; Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think; and WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird.Donna Orwin, professor emerita of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Toronto, is the author of Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847 – 1880. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.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.Youval Rotman is professor of history at Tel Aviv University, as well as founder and academic director of the Koret Center for Jewish Civilization. He is the author of four books: Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World; Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience; Slaveries of the First Millennium; and Trees and Spirits: A Voyage to Myanmar.Jane Stevenson, senior research fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and formerly Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, is author of The Light of Italy; Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period; Women Latin Poets; Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City; and Baroque Between the Wars.Santiago Zabala is Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. His books include Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts; Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings; Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency; The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics; and The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy. He edited The Future of Religion by Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo.