Notes on Contributors

Kerry Apps is writing her PhD dissertation for the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership on the global material culture of an English Restoration household. She has worked with a team of Indigenous American scholars and National Trust curators to find Indigenous presences in UK National Trust properties. Her research was submitted in a twenty-five-thousand-word report.Alda Balthrop-Lewis, associate professor of religion at Florida State University, is the author of Thoreau's Religion and several related articles, including “Active and Contemplative Lives in a Changing Climate: The Emersonian Roots of Thoreau's Political Asceticism,” “Exemplarist Environmental Ethics: Thoreau's Political Asceticism against Solution Thinking,” “Thoreau's Asceticism as Obedience to a Higher Law,” and “Henry David Thoreau: Saint of the Environmental Movement?”Caroline Walker Bynum, professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor Emerita at Columbia, was a MacArthur Fellow from 1986 to 1991 and in 1996 served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe; Christian Materiality; Wonderful Blood; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200 – 1336; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and Jesus as Mother.Thibault De Meyer, associate professor of the philosophy of science and technology at the University of Namur, Belgium, is the author of Qui a vu le zèbra? L'invention de la perspective animale.Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of some fifty books, including Siva: The Erotic Ascetic; The Hindus: An Alternative History; On Hinduism; The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics; Redeeming the Kamasutra; Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana; Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India; Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts; Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities; Other Peoples’ Myths: The Cave of Echoes; The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade; The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth; The Ring of Truth, and Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry; and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.Gavin Flood, professor emeritus of Hindu studies and comparative religion at Oxford University and dean of academic affairs at the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies, is a member of the British Academy and general series editor of the Oxford History of Hinduism. His other books include The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition; Hindu Monotheism; Religion and the Philosophy of Life; and The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism.Oliver Freiberger is professor of Asian studies and religious studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Publications related to his article in Common Knowledge include Asceticism and Its Critics; “Prestige als Plage”; Der Askesediskurs in Religionsgeschichte; “Locating the Ascetic's Habitat”; “Askese als Begriff”; “Gṛhastha in the Śraman.ic Discourse”; Considering Comparison; and “Haus versus Hauslosigkeit.”Inbar Graiver, managing editor of this journal, is the author of Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism. She is guest editor of the multi-issue Common Knowledge symposium “The Satisfactions of Asceticism.”Igor Klyukanov, the author of more than one hundred books, articles, and book chapters, is professor of communication studies at Eastern Washington University. He is translator and editor of Mikhail Epstein's The Transformative Humanities and founding editor of the Russian Journal of Communication.Susan R. Kramer is the author of Sin, Interiority, and Selfhood in the Twelfth-Century West and numerous articles, including (with Caroline Walker Bynum) “Revisiting the Twelfth-Century Individual: The Inner Self and the Christian Community.”Marty Newman's poetry has appeared in the American and British journals Raritan, Image, Typo#5: The International Journal of Prototypes, and Stand. Born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Montreal, he has lived in Jerusalem since 1985.Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's fourteen books include the novels Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, and Três histórias de esquecimento. Sandra Sousa and Sheila Khan's Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida: Tecelã de mundos passados e presentes, the first critical volume dedicated to her work, appeared last year, arguing for her importance in contemporary Portuguese literature.Jeffrey M. Perl is the founder and editor of Common Knowledge. His 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.” 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.J. G. A. Pocock (1924 – 2023) was the Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, an honorary fellow of two Cambridge colleges, and a member of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction, the Lippincott Award of the American Political Science Association, and the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History. By royal appointment, he was an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. His books include Barbarism and Religion (in six volumes); Virtue, Commerce, and History; The Machiavellian Moment; The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law; Politics, Language, and Time; Political Thought and History; and The Discovery of Islands.Max Rosochinsky is a Crimean poet, essayist, translator, and literary scholar currently teaching at the University of Chicago. In recent years, he has been a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of the Central European University in Budapest, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He and his wife Oksana Maksymchuk won first place in the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender translation competition and together edited Words for War, an anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry. They have shared the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for their translation of Marianna Kiyanovska's The Voices of Babyn Yar.Pär Segerdahl, associate professor of philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden and at Åbo Akademi in Finland, is the author of Language Use: A Philosophical Investigation into the Basic Notions of Pragmatics and several monographs in Swedish. With two ape-language researchers, he coauthored Kanzi's Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of Primates into Language.G. Thomas Tanselle, who was vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1978 to 2006, is coeditor, with Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker, of the fifteen-volume Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville (1968 – 2017). He is a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society (London) and is textual adviser to the Library of America, on whose board he has served since he helped found the organization in 1979. He is the author of, among other books, American Publishing History: The Tanselle Collection; Books in My Life; A Rationale of Textual Criticism; Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing; Textual Criticism since Greg; Bibliographical Analysis: A Historical Introduction; Essays in Bibliographical History; and Literature and Artifacts.Owen Whooley, professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico, is the author of On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing and Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, each of which received the Merton Book Award of the American Sociological Association.