Scott F. Crider is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dallas. An award-winning teacher, he has also published two books—The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay (2005) and With What Persuasion: An Essay on Shakespeare and the Ethics of Rhetoric (2009).
Robert Hollander, author of a dozen books and more than 100 articles dealing with Dante and/or Boccaccio, taught at Columbia (4 years) and then at Princeton (43 years), where he is Professor Emeritus in European Literature. He was also Visiting Professor at Dartmouth (1979, 1982, and 2006), in the Chair of Dantean Philology at the University of Florence (1988), and at Johns Hopkins (1999). He and his wife, the poet Jean Hollander, have been frequent presences at UD for week-long visits during the past five years, a continuing relationship. He is the founding Director of the Dartmouth Dante Project (1988– ) and of the Princeton Dante Project (1999– ). He was a founding member (1991) of the International Dante Seminar and the founding editor (1996) of the Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America. He was awarded the Gold medal of Florence in recognition of his work on behalf of Dante in 1988; was made an Honorary Citizen of Certaldo in 1997; and received the Charles T. Davis Award of the Dante Society of America in 2005. In 2007–8 he was elected to the Consiglio Direttivo della Società Dantesca Italiana and to the Honorary Presidency of the Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio.
J. Douglas Macready is a PhD student in Philosophy in the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas where he teaches as an Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy. He is currently focusing his research on the ethical thought of Hannah Arendt. His work has appeared in Film-Philosophy, Borderlands, and Purlieu; and he is the author of the blog The Relative Absolute.
Karl Maurer is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Dallas. He is the author of Interpolation in Thucydides (1995) and of several articles. He is currently working on a verse translation of Vergil’s Georgics and an index of Pindaric images.
Tiffany Niebuhr graduated from Hillsdale College with a B.A. in English and is a PhD student in Literature in the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas. She taught ESL in South Korea for a year and now works for the Writing Center at the University of Dallas. Her literary interests include comedy, Dante, and classical rhetoric.
John Peterson has a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he wrote his senior thesis on Plato’s Laws. He is currently a second-year PhD student in Politics in the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas. His research interests include modern political philosophy and American political thought.
Allison Postell is an Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, where she teaches courses on ethics, logic, and Aristotle. She received her B.A. from St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI, and her M.A. from the University of Dallas. In 2009 she participated in the Witherspoon Institute’s Summer Philosophy Seminar in Princeton, NJ, on Elizabeth Anscombe on Ethics, Religion, and Politics. She is currently completing her dissertation in the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas, which focuses on how the elementary structures of human thought and human nature lead to an understanding of normative action.
Christopher D. Schmidt holds a B.A. in English from the University of North Texas and is now a PhD student in Literature in the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas. His research focuses primarily on seventeenth-century English literature. He taught high school English in Alief ISD in Houston from 2004 to 2009, and he now teaches English and Creative Writing at the Parish Episcopal School of Dallas. He and his wife Laura live in Irving.