Notes on Contributors

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Jewel Spears Brooker is the author of T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination; Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism; and (with Joseph Bentley) Reading “The Waste Land”: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation. She has coedited two volumes of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot and is professor emerita of English literature at Eckerd College.Peter Burke, professor emeritus of cultural history at Cambridge University and a life fellow of Emmanuel College, is the author of thirty books, including The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag; A Social History of Knowledge (in two volumes); Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge; Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe; The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy; Italian Renaissance Culture and Society; The Art of Conversation; The French Historical Revolution; and The Fabrication of Louis XIV, which have been translated into thirty-three languages.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; and The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.Lorraine Daston is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and regular visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her books include Rules: A Short History of What We Live By; Against Nature; Classical Probability in the Enlightenment; Objectivity (with Peter Galison); and Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 (with Katharine Park).Thibault De Meyer is a PhD candidate at the University of Liège, writing on the relationship between perspectivism and contemporary scientific practices in ethology and animal psychology.Joseph Donahue is professor of the practice of English at Duke University. His poetry collections include Before Creation; Monitions of the Approach; World Well Broken; Wind Maps I–VII; Red Flash on a Black Field; Dark Church; Incidental Eclipse; and The Disappearance of Fate.Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and professor of religious studies at Yale University. His memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana received the American National Book Award in Nonfiction and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. His other books include a second memoir, Learning to Die in Miami; Reformations: The Early Modern World, which won the R. R. Hawkins Award from the Association of American Publishers; War against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to Calvin; From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain; The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila; and A Very Brief History of Eternity.Paul Guyer, Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University and Murray Professor of Humanities emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. General coeditor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, his books include A History of Modern Aesthetics (in three volumes); Kant on the Rationality of Morality; Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant; and A Philosopher Looks at Architecture.Joseph Leo Koerner, a recipient of the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. His books include Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape, which received the Mitchell Prize for art history; The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art; The Reformation of the Image; and Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life. He has written and presented arts documentaries for BBC television; and he wrote, directed, and produced the feature film The Burning Child.Bruce Krajewski is the author of Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutics and Rhetoric; editor of Gadamer's Repercussions; coeditor of The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy: Subversive Reports from Another Reality; and cotranslator of Gadamer on Celan, for which he shared the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jean Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature.Jakob Lothe, professor of English literature at the University of Oslo, is the author of Conrad's Narrative Method and Narrative in Fiction and Film.Steven I. Levine is a senior fellow in Chinese history and politics at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center of the University of Montana. His books include Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria.Jeffrey M. Perl, the founder and editor of Common Knowledge, is the author of 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.” 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.Marjorie Perloff, Sadie Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and former president of the Modern Language Association. Her many books include Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy, which received the Robert Penn Warren Prize for literary criticism in 2005; The Futurist Moment; Unoriginal Genius; Radical Poetics; Poetic License; Poetry on and off the Page; The Poetics of Indeterminacy; The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Pound Tradition; Wittgenstein's Ladder; Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire; and The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir.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.