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Fakrul Alam is Supernumerary Professor of the Department of English, University of Dhaka. His publications include South Asian Writers in English (2006) and The Essential Tagore, with Radha Chakravarty (2011). Other works include the translation of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Unfinished Memoirs (2012) and Gitabitan: Selected Song-Lyrics of Rabindranath Tagore (2023).

Peter Burke was Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge until his retirement in 2004 but remains a Fellow of Emmanuel College. His thirty-odd books include six volumes on the history of knowledge (counting one on ignorance), with one more to come on the history of connoisseurship.

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the author of several books. She has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Emeritus, at Stanford University, and Distinguished Professor of Romance Literatures at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. After Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the Periphery of Enlightenment (2021), he has recently finished the manuscript of a book under the title Lives of the Voice (forthcoming). Future fields of thinking and writing will include the philosophy of imagination and the specific status of women within mysticism as a religious practice.

Kevin Hart is Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Thought at the University of Virginia. His most recent books include Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image (2023) and Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (2023). Next year there will appear Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul and Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood. His poems are collected in Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (2015) and Barefoot (2018).

Stephen Nachmanovitch is the author of two books on the creative process, The Art of Is (2019) and Free Play (1990). He performs and teaches internationally as an improvisational violinist, and at the intersections of performing and multimedia arts, philosophy, and ecology. He graduated in 1971 from Harvard and in 1975 from the University of California, where he earned a PhD in the History of Consciousness for an exploration of William Blake. His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson. He has taught and lectured widely in the US and abroad on creativity and the spiritual, social, and he ethical underpinnings of art. He has presented master classes in improvisation and workshops at many conservatories and universities, and has had numerous appearances on radio, television, and at music and theater festivals. He has collaborated with artists in media including music, dance, theater, and film, and has developed programs melding art, music, literature, and computer technology.

Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, where she has served on the faculty since 1979. Her research interests include writing on science and technology as a historically shaped system of genres, the history of women in science and technology, and interdisciplinary humanistic education for engineers.

Ahmed H. al-Rahim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Islamic Studies at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on Arabo-Islamic intellectual and philosophical history in the Middle Ages. He is the author of The Creation of Philosophical Tradition: Biography and the Reception of Avicenna's Philosophy from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century A.D., Diskurse der Arabistik; XXI (2018).

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