Richard Deming is a poet and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. He is the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford, 2008), and his collection of poems,…
Gavriel Shapiro is Professor of Comparative and Russian Literature at Cornell University. Before becoming a literary scholar, Shapiro graduated from Moscow University, majoring in chemistry, and worked as a News Editor for the Russian Division of The Voice of Israel…
Peter Constantine is an award-winning literary translator and editor. His recent translations include Sophocles’s Theban Trilogy, The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, and works by Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Voltaire. He co-edited A Century of Greek Poetry: 1900-2000, and the anthology…
Joan Acocella was a staff writer for the New Yorker, where she reviewed dance and books. Her books include Mark Morris, a critical biography of the choreographer; Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism; and Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple…
David A. Bollier is an author, activist, blogger, and independent scholar with a primary focus on “the commons” as a new paradigm for economics, politics, and culture. After working for nearly a decade in Washington, DC, on a range of…
John B. Judis is an author and American journalist, an editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, a former senior writer at the National Journal and a former senior editor at the New Republic. He has also been a contributing editor of…
Daniel Albright was Ernst Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. His research interests included theories and strategies of comparative arts, Shakespeare and music, and Modernism in science, philosophy, and the arts. Albright also teaches courses on opera, drama, Victorian and…
Dean Moyar is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, with a specific focus on Kant and German Idealism, political philosophy, and ethics. Moyar received his education at Duke University and the University of Chicago,…
Jonathan Laurence is associate professor of Political Science at Boston College with a focus on European politics, transatlantic relations, and Islam in the West. He is also a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a term member of the…
Daniel Tiffany is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He focuses on poetry and poetics, philosophy, the history of literary culture, and critical theory. Tiffany has published translations of works…