Paul Stevens is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Toronto. The focus of his research is seventeenth-century English literature, most important the life and works of John Milton. His most recent publications include Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England, co-edited with David Loewenstein, which won the
Lynn Spigel is a Professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University. She earned her Ph.D. at UCLA’s Department of Film and Television in 1988, where she began her investigations into the cultural history of media, technology, and gender. Her first book, Make Room for TV (University of Chicago Press, 1992), explores the cultural
Mrinalini Sinha is Alice Freeman Palmer Professor in the Department of History and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has written on various aspects of the political history of colonial India, with a focus on anti-colonialism, gender, and transnational approaches. She has
Richard Sieburth’s book-length translations include from the German, Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hymns and Fragments, Georg Büchner’s Lenz, Gershom Sholem’s The Fullness of Time: Poems, and Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Diary; and, from the French, Nostradamus’s Prophecies, Maurice Scève’s Délie, Gérard de Nerval’s Selected Writings and The Salt Smugglers
The author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer was born in 1967 in Moscow, to a Jewish-Russian family, and spent nine years as a refusenik. He and his parents, the writer and doctor David Shrayer-Petrov and the translator Emilia Shrayer, left the USSR and immigrated to the United States in 1987, after spending a summer in
Damion Searls is the author of Everything You Say Is True (a travelogue) and What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going (stories), the editor of Thoreau’s Journal: 1837–1861, and a translator from German, French, Dutch, and Norwegian. Authors he has translated include Proust, Rilke, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Nescio, and Jon Fosse, and
Lisa Saltzman is Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. She received her B.A. from Princeton in 1988 and her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1994. In 2002-03, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and in 2012-13 she will be a fellow at the Clark Art Institute. At Bryn
Elisha P. Renne is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation research focused on marriage practices, textile production, and gender relations in southwestern Nigeria (Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University, 1990) and formed the basis for her first book, Cloth That
Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. She is also on the faculty of Harvard’s graduate program in the History of American Civilization. Oja’s Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Other
Benjamin Nathans is the Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1998. He received a B.A. in history from Yale University (1984) and a Ph.D. in modern Russian and European history from the University of California at Berkeley (1995). Along the way he
Laure Murat (Ph.D., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) is a cultural historian, specialized in the history of literature, psychiatry, and gender studies. She is professor in the department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches the literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her
Christia Mercer is Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She specializes in the history of early modern philosophy, but her research extends to the history of Platonism, philosophical methodology, and feminism. After publishing Leibniz’s Metaphysics: Its Origin and Development (CUP) in 2001, she has become increasingly concerned to use art historical and
Justin McDaniel studies ghosts and manuscripts in Asia. After living and researching in South and Southeast Asia for many years as a translator, archivist, amulet collector, volunteer teacher, and Buddhist monk. He returned to the States and received his PhD from Harvard University’s Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies in 2003. Presently he teaches Buddhism
Malaria is an infectious disease like no other. It is a dynamic, shape-shifting force of nature that constitutes Africa’s most deadly and debilitating infectious disease. During its historical co-evolution with humankind, malaria has evaded biomedicine’s struggles to eradicate it, or control its movement, and has mocked efforts to pursue it through single-stranded tactics: applications of
Thomas F. Madden is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the medieval Mediterranean world, with special emphases on the history of the crusading movement and the Republic of Venice. Most of his publications, in one form or another, touch on
William Luis is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where he has held a faculty appointment since 1991. He earned a B.A. from Binghamton University in 1971, an M.A. in Ibero-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973, a second M.A. from Cornell University in 1979, and a Ph.D. from
Lisa Lindsay’s academic interests situate African history in broad comparative contexts. Her first book, Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria (Heinemann, 2003), begins with an Africanist observation—that the Yoruba-speaking women of southwestern Nigeria are well known for their history of active market trading and financial independence from men—and then asks
From the late 1970s to the present, I have been passionate about doing interdisciplinary cultural and historical work on nineteenth-century American literature. There have been broad consistencies in my career, and re-energizing shifts and surprises, particularly the move that I made in the early 1990s into African American literary studies, while retaining my interests in
Melissa Lane is Professor of Politics at Princeton University, a position she has held since 2009. Previously she taught from 1994 to 2009 in the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, where she was a Fellow of King’s College. She has been Visiting Professor of Government and Lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard
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