Elizabeth McCracken is the Michener Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Texas's Department of English and the Michener Center for Writers. She is the author of a 1993 collection of stories, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, a…
David Warsh, a journalist and author from Boston, Massachusetts, is currently the editor and proprietor of EconomicPrincipals.com. Warsh is most known for his columns in the Boston Globe, which appeared from 1983 to 2002. A two-time recipient of UCLA's Gerald…
In 2003 Reynold Reynolds was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and in 2004 invited to The American Academy in Berlin. In 2008 he received support from the German Kunstfonds to develop two projects in Berlin. Reynolds has…
Philip Bohlman continues to seek new ways of combining performance and research in his research on Jewish music and modernity. As Artistic Director of The New Budapest Orpheum Society, the Jewish cabaret troupe and ensemble-in-residence at the Humanities Division, Bohlman has…
Pierre Joris has moved between the US, Great Britain, North Africa, France, and Luxembourg for 50 years, publishing over 40 books of poetry, essays and translations. He is the co-editor of Diwan Iffrikya: An Anthology of North African Writings from Prehistory…
A lawyer since 1975, Thomas Geoghegan has represented unions and employee groups on labor, pension, civil rights and other cases. He has brought suits for steelworkers defrauded of pensions and Teamster member sand other union rank-and-file groups seeking union democracy.…
Anne M. Wagner is an art historian whose interests are focused on the forms and rhetorical claims of nineteenth and twentieth-century art, particularly sculpture and its avatars in earthworks, performance, and beyond. Since 1988, she has been a professor in the…
Samuel Adler was born March 4, 1928, Mannheim, Germany and came to the United States in 1939. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2001, and then inducted into the American Classical Music Hall…
Svetlana Boym was a writer and Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. She is the author of The Future of Nostalgia (2001), Kosmos: Remembrances of the Future (2001 with Adam Bartos), Common Places: Mythologies of…
T. J. Clark was born in Bristol, England in 1943, took a BA in Modern History at Cambridge, and a PhD in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. Clark has taught at various places in England and…