Notes on Contributors

Lori Baker is the author of The Glass Ocean, a novel about which John Banville wrote that “her prose has the flash and fire of molten glass.” Her story collections include Crash and Tell; Scraps; and Crazy Water: Six Fictions, which early in her career received the Bobst Prize for Emerging Fiction. She is one of the three-member steering committee for the International Writers Project at Brown University.Marisa Anne Bass, professor of the history of art at Yale University, is the author of The Monument's End: Public Art and the Modern Republic; Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt; and Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity. She coauthored Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe.Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. A recipient of the Jay Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association, the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, and the John G. Cawelti Award for Best Book in American culture studies, he is the author of Emerson; Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently; Literary Transcendentalism; New England Literary Culture; The Dream of the Great American Novel; and, in the field of ecocriticism,Uses and Abuses of Environmental Memory; Ecocriticism: Some Emerging Trends; Writing for an Endangered World; and The Environmental Imagination.William M. Chace, president emeritus of Emory University and honorary professor emeritus of English at Stanford University, is the author of One Hundred Semesters; Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics; The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; and (as editor) Justice Denied: The Black Man in White America.Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity and professor of comparative theology at Harvard Divinity School, is a fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders; St. Joseph in South India; Thinking Ritually: Retrieving the Purva Mimamsa of Jaimini; Theology after Vedanta; Beyond Compare: St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God; The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Shrivaisnava Hindus; His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence; Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How It Matters; Western Jesuit Scholars in India; and Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story.Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University and an affiliated faculty member at the Harvard Law School, is the author of seven books and four edited volumes, as well as over 150 articles and book chapters. Her most recent work includes A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia (with translations into French, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Italian, and Portuguese); Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas; Upholding Justice: State, Law and the Penal System; Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America; and (as coeditor) The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective.Dana Logan is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and the author of Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America.Thomas J. Millay, senior research fellow at the Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, is the author of You Must Change Your Life: Søren Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Reading and Kierkegaard and the New Nationalism. His fiction has been published in The Blotter and his poetry inEarth and Altar. He reviews, mainly fiction, for the Los Angeles Review of Books.Jan-Werner Müller is Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His books include Democracy Rules; What is Populism?; Constitutional Patriotism; Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification, and National Identity; A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-war European Thought; and Contending Democracy. His book on architecture and democracy will appear in 2025.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 of English literature emeritus at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a member, at Durham University in England, of the Center for Humanities Innovation.Anders Klostergaard Petersen, associate professor of the study of religion at Aarhus University in Denmark, is the author of “A New Take on Asceticism,” “Stoicism in Paul and the Synoptics,” “Fifty Years of Modelling Late Second Temple Judaism,” “The Narration of Joseph,” and “Hotspots: On the Usefulness of a New Category.”Matthew Wilson Smith is professor of German studies and of theater and performance studies at Stanford University. His books include The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theater and The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace. His edited collections include Modernism and Opera and Georg Büchner: The Major Works.G. Thomas Tanselle, who was vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1978 to 2006, is coeditor of the Northwestern-Newberry edition of The Writings of Herman Melville. His other publications include A Rationale of Textual Criticism; Descriptive Bibliography; American Publishing History: The Tanselle Collection; and Books in My Life. In 2015 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in London.