EXPERTS

• Era Gavrielides on Aristotle and Plato Dr. Era Gavrielides is a lecturer at Birkbeck University (London) and a teaching assistant at King’s College London. She was awarded her PhD from King's College London in March 2009 for her thesis: 'Demotic Virtue in the Republic'. Prior to this Era studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University. Her research interests include Ancient Greek Philosophy and Ethics.
• Vicki Cobb on Marie Curie Vicki Cobb is the well-known author of more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children. Ever since 1972, when HarperCollins first published Science Experiments You Can Eat, Cobb's lighthearted approach to hands-on science has become her trademark for getting kids involved in experiences that create real learning. Currently, she is becoming increasingly popular as a speaker to children and adults as educators search out sources for materials and activities that promote learning.  She is currently spearheading a new company INK Think Tank, LLC (www.inkthinktank.com) that will deliver professional development to teachers by a consortium of distinguished authors of nonfiction for children through video conferencing.
• Dan Twyman on Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso Dan Twyman began his work in the art world back in 1979 while learning the art of lithography in a print shop that has been in business for over 70 years. Twyman moved on to work with an art publisher and helped to publish over 50 various artists works. Because of Twyman's background as a publisher and artist, and his love for the works of Salvador Dalí, he went to work for a known Dali broker and soon became the number one art consultant for the firm. Dan Twyman has been selling the works of Salvador Dalí for over 12 years now and has been called upon by thousands of art collectors to answer questions about their etchings, engravings, lithographs, sculptures and more. Dan is currently the Senior Art Consultant for the prestigious Salvador Dalí Society.
• Elliott King on Salvador Dalí Elliott King is an art historian specialising in Salvador Dalí's art and writing. Educated at the University of Denver, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the University of Essex, King has been a pioneer in the critical study of 'late Dalí' (i.e., the artist's work after 1940) and has presented and published extensively on various aspects of the artist's production. His areas of expertise include Dalí's 'Nuclear Mysticism' (intersections of art, physics, and religion), Dalí and science, Dalínian cosmogony, Dalí and Film, and issues surrounding the artist's critical reception in the United States.
• Joe Nuzzolo on Salvador Dalí Founder and president of the Salvador Dalí Society, Joseph Nuzzolo is one of the foremost Dalí experts. He is solely responsible for building the largest known private collection of Dalí works in the world, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and graphics.
• Floyd Sandford on Charles Darwin Floyd Sandford is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Coe College where he taught Diversity of Life, Introduction to Environmental Studies, Organic Evolution, Animal Behavior, General Genetics, Anatomy and Physiology, and Biology of the Seashore. His research interests center around aspects of marine biology. He has written a play "Darwin Remembers --- Recollections of a Life's Voyage" about the life and work of the great biologist. The play, a living history re-enactment for one actor, was performed several times at Coe College and other venues in Eastern Iowa in 2000, with funding assistance from Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Ezra T. Newman on Albert Einstein Ezra T. Newman is professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. Newman was a prominent contributor to the golden age of general relativity (roughly 1960-1975). In 1962, together with Roger Penrose, he introduced the powerful Newman/Penrose formalism for working with spinorial quantities in general relativity.
  In 1963, Newman and two coworkers discovered the NUT vacuum, an exact vacuum solution to the Einstein field equation which has become a famous counterexample to everything. In 1965, he discovered the Kerr/Newman electrovacuum, one of the best known of all exact solutions. Newman has continued to make important contributions. Some of his most interesting recent work has involved the problem of reconstructing the gravitational field within some region from observations of how optical images are lensed as light rays pass through the region.
• Tamas Pataki Tamas Pataki on Sigmund Freud Dr. Tamas Pataki is Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Honorary Fellow at Deakin University, also in Melbourne. He has published several philosophical articles in academic journals and in several academic anthologies, such as Racism in Mind (Cornell University Press, 2004). He has also reviewed for The Australian, The Age, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Metascience and, the Australian Book Review. A review essay, Narcissism Incarnate, in The Australian Review of Books (August 1999) won the Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Prize. In 2007 he published a polemical book Against Religion (Scribe Publications 2007), which drew a vigorous critical response.
• Peter Bondanella on Federico Fellini A renowned Fellini expert, Peter Bondanella is a Distinguished Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington IN. He is the author of several books, including The Cinema of Federico Fellini (1992), and Pulitzer Prize nominated The Eternal City: Roman Images in the Modern World (1987).
• Francesco Berto on Kurt Gödel Francesco Berto teaches Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence at the universities of Aberdeen, Venice, and Milan-San Raffaele. He has written papers that have appeared in many leading philosophical and mathematical journals. He has published several books among them La dialettica della struttura originaria (Poligrafo 2003), Che cos’è la dialettica hegeliana? (Poligrafo 2005), Teorie dell’assurdo (Carocci 20062, 2007 Castiglioncello prize for the best book by a young philosopher, English, expanded ed. How to Sell a Contradiction, King’s College Publications, London 2007), Logica da zero a Gödel (Laterza 20074), Tutti pazzi per Gödel (Laterza 20084, English ed. There’s Something About Gödel, Blackwell 2009), L’esistenza non è logica (Laterza, forthcoming 2010). He is currently a member of Crispin Wright’s Northern Institute of Philosophy.
• Marie Duzi on Kurt Gödel Marie Duzi, associate professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Ostrava's department of Computer Science and associate professor at Charles University's department of Logic in Prague, has written widely on mathematical logic, complexity, computability and informatics among other things. She has had an abiding interest in logician Kurt Gödel resulting in a published paper on his famous Incompleteness Theorems. And she is a member of the editorial board of the philosophical journal Organum F.
• Linda Patterson Miller on Ernest Hemingway Linda Patterson Miller is Professor of English at Penn State Abington, where she has taught American literature since 1984, earning teaching awards including the Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching (2004). Miller publishes in all areas of American studies, but her specialty is early twentieth-century American literature and art. Dr. Miller’s books include (with Randall M. Miller) The Book of American Diaries (Avon, 1995) and Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends (Rutgers University Press, 1991; paper 1993). Letters from the Lost Generation, which reexamines the personal and literary relationships between F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Archibald MacLeish, among others, was recently published in a new and expanded edition (University Press of Florida, 2002). Miller is presently completing another book on the American expatriate artists in France (The Summer of ’26), and her Reading Hemingway: In Our Time (Kent State University Press) is forthcoming.
• Hilary Justice on Ernest Hemingway Hilary Justice, Ph.D. (U Chicago 2001), is Associate Professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches literature, textual studies, and publishing. Justice's research interests include Hemingway, Shakespeare, and the Harry Potter phenomenon. Her publications include The Bones of the Others: The Hemingway Text from the Lost Manuscripts to the Posthumous Novels (Kent State UP, 2006), several monographs concerning the early drafts of Hemingway's short fiction, and, most recently, "Mind the Gap: Severus Snape and the Final Imperative." Her current research projects include Hemingway's later short fiction (for Kent State's "Reading Hemingway" series), "The Text in Flames" (concerning the burning of books in Western fiction), and an analsysis of the philosophy curriculum at Wittenberg as it addresses problems Hamlet poses to post-Freudian readers.
• Pablo Muchnik on Immanuel Kant Pablo Muchnik is Assistant Professor at Siena College, where he directs the Symposium on Living Philosophers. Educated in Argentina, he received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research (2002) and studied a few years in Germany. He specializes in Kant, modern philosophy, and political philosophy. He has written articles on Kant, Descartes, Hobbes, and Rousseau, and received various national and international scholarships and awards. He just finished his first book on Kant's doctrine of radical evil, and is co-editing an anthology with Sharon Anderson-Gold and editing one of his own.
• Michael S. Lawlor on John Maynard Keynes Michael S. Lawlor is Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. He holds a joint appointment at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences. He has held visiting appointments in the Department of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Duke University and is a Life Member of Clare-Hall, Cambridge.
• Allan H. Meltzer on John Maynard Keynes Allan H. Meltzer is the Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University and Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. Dr. Meltzer’s writings have appeared in numerous journals, including the business press here and abroad. He is the author of several books and more than 300 papers on economic theory and policy. From 1973 to 1996, he was co-editor of the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Finance. In 1983, Professor Meltzer received a medal for distinguished professional achievement from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a past president of the Western Economic Association and a Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association. In 2003 he received the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute and the Adam Smith Award from the National Association for Business Economics.
• James Martin Rock on John Maynard Keynes James Martin Rock is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah’s Department of Economics. He has published several books on economics including “Debt and the Twin Deficits Debate” and is preparing a new book on Keynes entitled “Keynes on Paradox, Common Sense, Rationality & Passion.” Professor Rock’s research interests center on John Maynard Keynes, Debt and Twin Deficits, and Industry Studies.
• Andrew Chitty on Karl Marx Andrew Chitty is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex where he teaches courses in Hegel, Marx, Kant, social and political philosophy, history of political thought, and ethics. He has published widely on Marx and Hegel in various Philosophical journals and served as co-editor of Has History Ended? Fukuyama, Marx, Modernity(1995, with Chris Betram) and of Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy (2009, with Martin Mcivor).
• Alan Douglas Schrift on Friedrich Nietzsche Alan Douglas Schrift is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Department Chair, and founding Director of the Grinnell College Center for the Humanities. He has a B.A. from Brown University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. A specialist on Nietzsche and contemporary French philosophy, he teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy. In addition to his many published articles, he is the author of three books: Twentieth Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005), Nietzsche's French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism (New York: Routledge, 1995), and Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (New York: Routledge, 1990). His current research is focused on editing an eight-volume History of Continental Philosophy for Acumen Publishing, and serving as General Editor of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche.
• Karen Kleinfelder on Pablo Picasso Professor of Art History at California State University Long Beach, Karen L. Kleinfelder, Ph.D., describes herself this way: "It seems that I have given the best years of my life to a dead artist: Picasso. Graduating from the University of Michigan in 1989, I wrote my Honors undergraduate thesis, masters thesis, and dissertation on various aspects of Picasso’s art. Published writings includeThe Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze: Picasso´s Pursuit of the Model and Essays in Picasso: Inside the Image and Fingering Ingres."
• John R. Wallach on Plato John R. Wallach is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and Graduate Center at CUNY. His work centers around normative political theory and the history of political theory. His books include Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy, The Platonic Political Art and is currently organizing a collection of articles entitled Perspectives on Democratic Virtue: Toward a Critical Ethics of Equality and Power.
• Abigail Rokison on William Shakespeare Abigail began her career as a professional actor, training at LAMDA. Her acting work includes numerous roles in Classical theatre, and, amongst other television roles, Primrose Larkin in TV’s The Darling Buds of May. Following a degree with the Open University, undertaken whilst acting, she went on to take an MA in ‘Shakespeare: Text and Playhouse’ at the Globe Theatre/ King’s College London. She completed her PhD in Shakespeare the English faculty at Cambridge University in 2006 after which she became lecturer in Drama and English in the Education Faculty in Cambridge and Director of Studies in English and Drama at Homerton College, Cambridge. In November 2008 Abigail was elected Chair of the trustees of the British Shakespeare Association. Her monograph, Shakespearean Verse Speaking will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. She has contributed chapters to the forthcoming Shakespeare in Stages (CUP) and Children’s Literature Handbook (Routledge), transcriptions to the Malone Society Collections (MUP) and articles to the journals Shakespeare (Routledge) and New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship.
• Dionysis Drosos on Adam Smith Dionysis Drosos is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Ioannina in Greece. He has written widely on aspects of Moral philosophy and in particular on Adam Smith and David Hume. His books include Market and State in Adam Smith. A Critique of the Retrospective Foundations of Neoliberalism and The Gentle Commerce of Sympathy. Civilization and Moral Community in the Scottish Enlightenment.
• David M. Levy on Adam Smith David M. Levy is Professor of Economics at George Mason University (GMU) and Research Associate at the Center for Study of Public Choice at GMU. Levy is a specialist in the impact of expenditures on research and development on productivity and the role of ethics in consumer choice and statistical estimation. His books include The Economic Ideas of Ordinary People, How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics & the Ur-Text of Racial Politics, The “Vanity of the Philosopher”: From Hierarchy to Equality in Post-Classical Economics co-authored with Sandra Peart and most recently The Street Porter & the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism edited with Sandra Peart.
• Michael Kiskis on Mark Twain Michael Kiskis, Leonard Tydings Grant Professor of American Literature at Elmira College, is Editor of Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography: The Chapters of the North American Review and co-editor of Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship. He has served as president of the Mark Twain Circle of America and of the Northeast Modern Language Association, and editor of Studies in American Humor and Modern Language Studies, and was an Editorial Board Member for Mark Twain Annual and Studies in American Humor and a contributor to American Literary Scholarship. Along with work on Mark Twain, he has published essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman and on questions of pedagogy, and is currently working on a book project examining the relationship between Samuel Clemens’s family and his fiction during his most prolific and successful years, 1870-1894.
• Laura Skandera Trombley on Mark Twain Laura Skandera Trombley is president of Pitzer College. She frequently speaks and publishes on issues affecting US higher education and her academic scholarship on Mark Twain is internationally renowned. As a graduate student she discovered the largest known cache of Mark Twain letters and in 2002 appeared in Ken Burns’'s documentary on Mark Twain. She has published dozens of scholarly articles and four books: Mark Twain in the Company of Women (1994), Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions if Scholarship (2002), Critical Essays on Maxine Hong Kingston (1998) and Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge (1986). Her new book "Mark Twain's Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years," will be published by Knopf March 2010.
• James Klagge on Ludwig Wittgenstein James Klagge, Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, pursues a variety of research interests in moral philosophy, metaphysics, and 20th century analytic philosophy. He is especially interested in the metaphysical underpinnings of morality and the mind, focusing on supervenience and realism. He is also interested in the problem of conceptual change as it arises in our thinking about morality and mentality. Most recently, he has worked on Wittgenstein, both in his historical context and in his implications for current issues. Dr. Klagge teaches a wide variety of courses, focusing on moral philosophy, but also straying into Ancient Greek culture, the history of political philosophy (especially Hobbes and Marx), metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, African-American Thought, and the meaning of life.
• Julia Tanney on Ludwig Wittgensten Julia Tanney, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent, has written numerous articles in philosophy of mind, focussing especially on reason explanation, normativity, rule-following, and self-knowledge. She is an international expert on the philosophy of Gilbert Ryle and the later Wittgenstein. Dr Tanney was educated at UCLA where she studied with David Pears and Philippa Foot, and at the University of Michigan where she wrote her Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of Crispin Wright, Allan Gibbard, and David Velleman. She has taught Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations for over 15 years, in the UK as well as in France, where she has held visiting and guest professorships at the Université de Picardie (Amiens) and the Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne). She is presently working with her students on a project at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England that brings her Wittgenstein course to the virtual environment of Second Life.
• Clare Washbrook on W.B. Yeats Clare Washbrook is an award winning poet, former journalist and English teacher. She has been the top poetry expert on allexperts.com for five years. She studied poetry under Professor Jon Glover (current editor of Stand) and John Lyons. She is regularly published in UK poetry journals and is a rep for The Poetry Society. She has recently been an advisor for an ITV series about War Poets and is currently working on two new collections of poetry as well as prose works.