ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Among his many works are The Ethics of Identity (2005) and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006).

Thomas Bender is Professor of History and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He is the author of many works, which include A Nation among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006) and The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (2002).

Homi K. Bhabha is Anna F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His books include The Location of Culture (1994) and Nation and Narration (1990).

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford. Her most recent books include Indian Arrivals 1870–1915: Networks of British Empire (2015) and Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (2005).

Craig Calhoun is the Director of the London School of Economics. His many works include The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements (2012) and Nations Matter: Culture, History and the Cosmopolitan Dream (2007).

Emma Dabiri is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Magdalena Edwards is a Chilean-born writer whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Paris Review Daily, Boston Review, The Millions, and El Mercurio. Currently she is translating Clarice Lispector’s novel The Chandelier for New Directions.

Jean Bethke Elshtain was Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School and also held joint appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Committee on International Relations. She was a prolific author, and some of her most famous works include Women and War (1987), Democracy on Trial (1993), and Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (2008).

Leela Gandhi is John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University. She is the author of several works, including The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900–1955 (2014), and Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship (2006).

Ashleigh Harris is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University. Her recent work includes “Facing/Defacing Robert Mugabe: Land Reclamation, Race and the End of Colonial Accountability,” in What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say (2016).

David A. Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (2013) and Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States (2006).

Paulo Lemos Horta is Assistant Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi. His books include Marvellous Thieves: The Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights (2017) and the Arabian Nights: An Anthology (2014; coedited with Wen-Chin Ouyang).

Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. His works include De La Postcolonie, essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine (2000), translated as On the Postcolony in 2001.

Walter Benn Michaels is Head of the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has authored such works as The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy (2015), and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History (2004).

Phillip Mitsis is Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization at New York University. Among his works are Epicurus’ Ethical Theory: The Pleasures of Invulnerability (1988) and the Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy (1997), for which he was co-associate editor.

Ato Quayson is University Professor of English and Director of the Center for Diaspora Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many works, including Oxford Street, Accra: City Life, the Itineraries of Transnationalism (2014) and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (2007).

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of several volumes, including Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence (2012) and Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (NYU Press, 1999).

Silviano Santiago taught at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Federal Fluminense. He is the author of, among other works, The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture (2002) and the noir novel Stella Manhattan (1994).

Jeremy Waldron is University Professor at New York University School of Law. His most recent works include Political Political Theory: Essays on Institutions (2016) and One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality (2017).

Yan Haiping is Professor of Crosscultural Studies, Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Vice Dean for International Affairs, School of the Humanities, and Dean, Institute for World Literatures and Cultures (IWLC), Tsinghua University. She is the editor of Other Transnationals (2005) and the author of Amidst Landscapes of Mobility (forthcoming).

Robert J. C. Young is Dean of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. Among his many influential works are The Idea of English Ethnicity (2008) and White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990).