Kenneth Gross is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Rochester. His books include Spenserian Poetics: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Magic (1985), The Dream of the Moving Statue (1992, rpt. 2006), Shakespeare’s Noise…
Elizabeth Sears is an art historian specializing in medieval art and iconography. Her first book, The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle (Princeton, 1986), won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America. She…
Best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, Collier Schorr’s images often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy. However, her project There I Was (SteidlMack, 2007), represented a shift in both medium and concept for…
Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005), one of the most important American dramatists of the post-World War II era, was the American Academy's Distinguished Inaugural Senior Fellow. With his most well-know drama, Death of a Salesman (1949),…
The poet C. K. Williams was an American poet, critic, and translator and had been a professor for English and composition at Princeton University since 1996. When he was not teaching, he and his wife lived in Paris. Williams received…
Kendall Thomas has taught law at Columbia University in New York since 1984. His academic focuses include constitutional theory, law and sexuality, critical race theory, and theoretical paradigms of feminism. Thomas has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School,…
A professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, Claire Finkelstein has published extensively in the areas of criminal law theory, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, and rational choice theory. She has held fellowships at the…
Mark J. Butler is a music theorist whose research addresses popular music, rhythm, and technologically mediated performance. He is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the program in Music Theory and Cognition in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern…
Elizabeth Goodstein is an associate professor in Emory University’s interdisciplinary Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, where she teaches modern European thought and culture. Crossing the boundaries between intellectual history, philosophy, and literary studies, her research focuses on the ways…
Robert Kotlowitz was a television producer, documentary filmmaker, and writer. He is the author of five novels, all of which have a relationship to the city in which he was raised: Baltimore, Maryland. His novel Somewhere Else (1972) was the…