Béatrice Longuenesse is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. She received her education at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and at Princeton University. Longuenesse was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin in…
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…
Hans R. Vaget is Helen & Laura Shedd Professor Emeritus of German Studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He received his academic training at the universities of Munich and Tübingen, the University of Wales in Cardiff, and at Columbia…
Heather McGowan is the author of the novel Schooling (Doubleday/Faber UK), which was a Newsweek, Detroit Free Press, and Hartford Courant Best Book of the Year in 2001 and was included in the volume 1001 Books You Must Read Before…
Evgeny Morozov is a writer of Belarusian origin who studies political and social implications of technology. His articles have been published in the New York Times, New Yorker, Financial Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal, London Review of Books, and many…
Charles Hirschkind is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests concern religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the urban Middle East and Europe. His book The Ethical Soundscape:…
Richard Hawkins is a painter, sculptor, and collage artist who is currently participating in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. In 2010, his work was the subject of the retrospective “The Third Mind” at the Art Institute of Chicago, curated by Lisa…
Sinan Antoon is associate professor at the Gallatin School of New York University and a fellow of the university’s Hagob Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. He holds a BA in English from Baghdad University, an MA in Arab Studies…
Gene A. Coleman is a composer, musician, and director. He has created over fifty works for various instrumentation and media. Since 2001, his work has focused on global culture and music's relationship with architecture, video, and dance. He studied at the…
