Session 1

Bart Schultz specializes in devising public ethics programs to build community connections on Chicago’s South Side. His publications include Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians (Princeton University Press, 2017), and he recently edited and arranged Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black (Northwestern University Press, 2019).

Haun Saussy’s most recent books are Translation as Citation (Oxford University Press, 2018), When the Pipirite Sings: Selected Poems of Jean Métellus (Northwestern University Press, 2019), Are We Comparing Yet? On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability is forthcoming in fall 2019 from Bielefeld University Press. Saussy is a University Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Salikoko S. Mufwene studies the evolution of languages. His recent books include Language Evolution: Contact, Competition, and Change (Continuum Press, 2008); Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America (editor, University of Chicago Press, 2014), and Complexity in Language: Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives (co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is the Frank J.

Noel Blanco Mourelle is working on his first book, about the intellectual legacy of Majorcan preacher and philosopher Ramon Llull. His work has appeared in Cuadernos de historia moderna and is scheduled to appear in postmedieval and Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.

Catriona MacLeod is senior editor of Word & Image, and author of Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller (Wayne State University Press, 1998) and Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century (Northwestern University Press, 2013). Her current book in progress, Romantic Scraps, explores how Romantic authors and visual artists cut, glue, stain, and recycle paper; generating paper cuts, collages, and ink blot poems in profusion.

Christopher Faraone focuses his research on ancient Greek poetry, religion and magic—topics about which he has spoken and published extensively. His latest book is The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), which was described by one reviewer as “elegantly produced” and “seminal for future study.” He founded UChicago’s Center for the Study of Ancient Religions, which he directed from 2008 to 2018. Faraone is the Edward Olson Professor in the Department of Classics and the College at the University of Chicago.

Nadine Di Vito has taught all levels of French language, theories, and methodologies of foreign language teaching, cross-cultural communication, and sociolinguistics. She wrote Patterns Across Spoken and Written French: Empirical Research on the Interaction Among Forms, Functions, and Genres (Houghton Mifflin,1997), has contributed to multiple articles and book chapters in sociolinguistics and foreign language teaching, and is the co-author of Comme on dit (Georgetown University Press, 2018) and C'est ce qu'on dit (Georgetown University Press, 2019).