Jonathan Lamb started teaching English literature at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 1995 he moved to Princeton, and in 2002 took up the Andrew W. Mellon chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt. His most recent book is The Things Things Say, a study of the strange energy generated by things when they are
Andrea Henderson is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1986, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. From 1991 to 1994 she was a Fellow at the University of Michigan Society of Fellows. Professor Henderson’s scholarly
Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published widely in the history of religion in Europe and the U.S., on the Holocaust and its aftermath, and on the histories of gender and sexuality. She recently completed
Lori D. Ginzberg is a historian of nineteenth-century American women with a particular interest in the intersections between intellectual and social history. Educated at Oberlin College (B.A., 1978) and Yale University (Ph.D., 1985), she is the author of several books, including Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United
Denise Gigante, Professor of English at Stanford University, is the author of The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George, a biography of the English poet and his pioneer brother published with Harvard University Press in 2011. The book was a New York Times Notable Book for 2011 and an Editor’s Choice in The
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri received his bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College in Religious Studies and his master’s and doctoral degrees in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. He is currently Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His scholarship and teaching focus on the study of religion, the social and
Peter Galassi is a scholar and curator whose principal fields are photography and nineteenth-century French art. He was Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1991 to 2011. Earlier at MoMA he was Curatorial Intern (1974–75), Associate Curator (1981-86), and Curator (1986-91). Galassi organized or co-organized more than forty exhibitions
Judith Evans Grubbs is the Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History at Emory University. She received her Ph.D. in Classics at Stanford University in 1987 and her B.A. in Classics and English at Emory in 1978. Prior to coming to Emory, she taught at Washington University in St. Louis and Sweet Briar College in
Jamal J. Elias is Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of South Asia Studies, and is a member of the Graduate Groups in Ancient History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He earned his
Olivia Remie Constable is a professor of medieval history and the Robert M. Conway director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. She taught in the History Department at Columbia University for six years after receiving her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 1989; she then moved to the
Teresa P. R. Caldeira is a scholar of cities and their political practices. Her research focuses on predicaments of urbanization and reconfigurations of spatial segregation and social discrimination, mostly in cities of the global south. She has been especially interested in studying the relationships between urban form and political transformation, particularly in the context of
I am a professor of French and Italian and Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, where I have taught since 1986 after receiving my B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and my M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton. The focus of my work as a scholar and a teacher is resurrecting the works and voices of
Alejandro Rosas was born in Medellín, Colombia, but spent his childhood and early adult years in Montevideo, Uruguay, and in Lima, Perú. After undergraduate studies in philosophy in Lima (1979-1984), he completed doctoral studies in Germany with a Konrad Adenauer Fellowship (1985-1990), and was awarded his Ph.D., summa cum laude, for his dissertation on Kant’s
Nací en Sucre, Bolivia, en 1949. Fui educado por mis padres y los jesuitas dentro de la consciencia de la responsabilidad social y el servicio a la comunidad. Estos valores, por opción personal, han guiado mis actos. Mis padres pensaron que tenía dotes para el arte. Por eso, desde muy joven, me matricularon en la
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