Notes on Contributors

Mira Balberg is the David Goodblatt Professor of Ancient Jewish Civilization and professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. Her books include Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature; Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture; Here on Earth: A History of the Kibbutz; and Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature.Johannes Bronkhorst, professor emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian studies at the University of Lausanne, is the author of Compendium of All Philosophies: The Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha Translated and The Origins of Indian Philosophy; Extreme Religious Behaviours: Where Religion and Biological Evolution Clash; Greater Magadha; Buddhist Teaching in India; Language and Reality; Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism; Karma; Absorption: Human Nature and Buddhist Liberation; How the Brahmins Won: From Alexander to the Guptas; A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought; and Studies in the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha.Peter Brown, Rollins Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University and a fellow of the British Academy, was a MacArthur Fellow from 1982 to 1987. He received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in 2001 and the Kluge Prize of the Library of Congress in 2008. His books include Augustine of Hippo; The World of Late Antiquity; The Cult of the Saints; The Body and Society; Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire; Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman World; The Rise of Western Christendom; and Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire.Lawrence Buell is the Powell M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of American Literature at Harvard University. A recipient of the Jay Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association, the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, and the John G. Cawelti Award for the best book in American culture studies, he is the author of Literary Transcendentalism; New England Literary Culture; Emerson; Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently; The Dream of the Great American Novel; and, in the field of ecocriticism, Uses and Abuses of Environmental Memory; Ecocriticism: Some Emerging Trends; Writing for an Endangered World; and The Environmental Imagination.Dame Averil Cameron, professor emerita of late antique and Byzantine history at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy, was the Warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1994 to 2010. Her books include Agathias; Procopius and the Sixth Century; Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse; The Later Roman Empire, AD 284–430; The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395–700; The Byzantines; Dialoguing in Late Antiquity; Byzantine Matters; Arguing it Out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium; Byzantine Christianity; From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond; and Transitions: A Historian's Memoir.Fabio Ciaramelli, professor of the philosophy of law at the University of Naples, is the author of Il dilemma di Antigone and La città degli esclusi, as well as coauthor of Il fascino dell'obbedienza: Servitù volontaria e società depressa (with Ugo Maria Olivieri) and Desiderio e legge (with Sarantis Thanopulos). The Italian translator of texts by Emmanuel Levinas and Cornelius Castoriadis, he has published articles about their work and about that of Hannah Arendt.David Ames Curtis has translated five texts by Fabio Ciaramelli, as well as “upward of two million words” of Castoriadis's writings.Thibault De Meyer is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Namur, Belgium. He is the author of Qui a vu le zèbre? L'invention de la perspective éthologique.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.Gavin Flood is professor of Hindu studies and comparative religion at the University of Oxford, senior research fellow of Campion Hall, dean of academic affairs at the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies, and a fellow of the British Academy. His books include Religion and the Philosophy of Life; The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism; Hindu Monotheism; The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World; and The Ascetic Self.Inbar Graiver, managing editor of Common Knowledge and guest editor of its symposium “The Satisfactions of Asceticism,” is the author of Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism.Robert Guay is professor of philosophy at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Nietzsche's “On the Genealogy of Morality” and is currently working toward monographs on Nietzsche's ethics and on reparations for historical injustice.Oren Harman, senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and professor in the graduate program in science, technology, and society at Bar-Ilan University, is the author of The Price of Altruism; Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World; and The Man Who Invented the Chromosome. His books have appeared in nine languages.Beverly Haviland is senior lecturer emerita in American studies at Brown University and author of The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition and Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene. She is preparing a critical edition of James's unfinished novel The Sense of the Past for the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James.Amalia Kahana-Carmon (1926–2019) received the Israel Prize for literature in 2000, the Israeli Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literature in 1971 and again in 1980, and the President's Prize in 1997. She contended that her writing was untranslatable and rejected many attempts. A handful of approved translations have been published in English, Italian, and Chinese. The English titles by which her Hebrew works are known are Under One Roof; And Moon in the Valley of Ayalon; A Piece for the Stage, in the Grand Manner; Magnetic Fields; High Stakes; Up in Montifer; With Her On Her Way Home; and Here We'll Live.Michael Shkodnikov translates mostly from Russian, classical Greek, and English. His translations into Hebrew include books by Andrei Bitov, Achilles Tatius, and H. P. Lovecraft.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 emeritus of English literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a member, at Durham University in England, of the Center for Humanities Innovation.Anders Klostergaard Petersen, associate professor of the study of religion at Aarhus University in Denmark, is the author of “A New Take on Asceticism,” “Stoicism in Paul and the Synoptics,” “Fifty Years of Modelling Second Temple Judaism,” “The Narration of Joseph,” and “Hotspots: On the Usefulness of a New Category.”Marcela Sulak is an associate professor of English at Bar-Ilan University and director of the graduate program in creative writing there. A four-time recipient of the Academy of American Poetry Prize, she is the author of The Fault, a novella in verse; City of Sky Papers; Mouth Full of Seeds; Decency; Immigrant; and Of All the Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best.Miguel Tamen, professor of literary theory at the University of Lisbon and founding director of the Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study, is the author The Matter of the Facts; Friends of Interpretable Objects; What Art Is Like, in Constant Reference to the Alice Books; Closeness; and (with Brett Bourbon) Thinking with Words: A Literary Groundwork.G. Thomas Tanselle, who was vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1978 to 2006, is coeditor of the Northwestern-Newberry edition of The Writings of Herman Melville. His other publications include A Rationale of Textual Criticism; Descriptive Bibliography; American Publishing History: The Tanselle Collection; and Books in My Life. In 2015, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in London.Camilla Townsend, the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, is the author of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs, which received the Cundill History Prize in 2020; Indigenous Life After the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico; Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive; Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley; Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico; Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma; and Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America.Shira Wolosky is professor emerita of English and American literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her books include Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War; Language Mysticism; Feminist Theory Across Disciplines; Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America; The Bible in American Poetic Culture; and The Sacred Power of Language in Modern Jewish Thought: Levinas, Derrida, Scholem.