Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, critic, and curator. The author of Swimming Home (Nightboat Books, 2015) and The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton University Press, 2004), he is also the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art (MIT Press, 2002; reprinted 2013), and he is the curator of the “Readings in Contemporary Poetry” series at DIA Chelsea. Katz’s selections of poems from the series, 2010 through 2016, is forthcoming from DIA. A collaboration with poet Anne Waldman, will be brought out by Blaze Vox in 2017. Vincent Katz lives in New York City and teaches at the Yale School of Art. ...
Lorraine Daston is director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and is visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. 
David Shulman is Professor Emeritus of Indian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After taking a first degree at the Hebrew University in Arabic and Persian and falling in love with Persian poetry, he drifted eastward from Iran into India. He was trained in Tamil and Sanskrit at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London by John Ralston Marr, Wendy Doniger, and Peter Khoroche. He has published widely on the cultural and intellectual history of southern India in pre-modern times with particular emphasis on Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. He has worked closely and published books together with Velcheru Narayana Rao, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Don Handelman, Yigal Bronner, and Gary Tubb. In recent years he has been absorbed in the study of the Kerala tradition of Kudiyattam, the last living form of Sanskrit drama in the world, and each year he takes students and...
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