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Anna Sapir Abulafia, a fellow of the British Academy, is professor of the study of the Abrahamic religions at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. She was vice president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from 2002 to 2010. Her books include Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance; Christians and Jews in Dispute: Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in the West (c. 1000–1150); and Christian-Jewish Relations, 1000–1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom.Rae Armantrout's book Versed received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2010 and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2009. The author of some ten collections of poetry, a volume of collected prose, and a memoir titled True, she is professor emerita of poetry and poetics at the University of California, San Diego.Caroline Walker Bynum, professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and University Professor Emerita at Columbia University, is the author of Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe; Christian Materiality; Wonderful Blood; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and Jesus as Mother. She was a MacArthur Fellow from 1986 to 1991 and, in 1996, served as president of the American Historical Association.William M. Chace is president emeritus of Emory University and honorary professor emeritus of English at Stanford University. His books include One Hundred Semesters; Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics; The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays; Making It New; and (as editor) Justice Denied: The Black Man in White America.S. D. Chrostowska, professor of twentieth-century intellectual history in the Department of Humanities and the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada, is author of The Eyelid; Matches: A Light Book; Permission; and Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, 1700–1800.Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and a fellow of the British Academy, is the author of His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence; The New Comparative Theology: Interreligious Insights from the Next Generation; Learning Interreligiously; Beyond Compare: St. Francis and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God; Theology after Vedanta; Thinking Ritually: Retrieving the Purva Mimamsa of Jaimini; How to Do Comparative Theology; The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies; and The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava.Thibault De Meyer is a PhD candidate at the University of Liège, writing on the relationship between perspectivism and contemporary scientific practice in ethology and animal psychology.Nicholas Halmi, professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Oxford and a Margaret Candfield Fellow of University College, is the author of The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol. Currently he is writing History's Forms: Aesthetics and the Past in the Age of Historicization, 1650–1850, for which he has received a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.Erika Supria Honisch is associate professor of the history and theory of music at Stony Brook University. Her books include The Ends of Harmony: Sacred Music and Sound in Prague, 1550–1650 and (as coeditor) Music in Rudolfine Prague. She has collaborated with a number of early music groups, including Schola Antiqua and the Newberry Consort in Chicago and the International Baroque Institute at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Anne E. Lester, John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochen Associate Professor of Medieval History at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne. Presently she is writing two books regarding the Crusades: Fragments of Devotion: Relics and Remembrance in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade and Crusades and Devotion: Following the Cross and Its Meaning in the Medieval World.Yaakov A. Mascetti is a senior lecturer in comparative literature at Bar-Ilan University and, currently, a fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies.Jeffrey M. Perl's 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.” The founder and editor of 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.Seamus Perry is professor of English literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Balliol College. The author of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Coleridge and the Uses of Division; Tennyson; T. S. Eliot's “The Waste Land”; and Auden's Face: Life and Poetry, he is also general editor of a forthcoming edition of the critical works of William Empson. He coedits Essays in Criticism (with Christopher Ricks and Freya Johnston).Colin Richmond, professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Keele, is the author of John Hopton: Fifteenth-Century Suffolk Gentleman and a three-volume history of the Paston family in fifteenth-century Norfolk.Susan A. Stephens is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and professor of classics at Stanford University. Her books include Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria; The Poets of Alexandria; Callimachus: The Hymns; and (with Benjamin Acosta-Hughes) Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets. As a papyrologist, she has published literary and documentary texts belonging to the Oxyrhynchus and Yale collections and is coeditor (with Jack Winkler) of Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments.Megan Weiler is the author of two novels, A World without Echoes (from which the pages in this issue of Common Knowledge are excerpted) and The Night Bell. She occasionally teaches classics and is a freelance translator from German, French, and Italian.