Acknowledgments
This volume began as a series of panels at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conferences of 2015 and 2016, where several of our number first presented some of the ideas that, five years later, now appear fully-formed in this book. Our greatest debt is to all the contributors to this volume, whom we thank as much for their insightful and thoughtful chapters as for their patience and encouragement over the time it took to bring the collection to print. We are also grateful to Kyriakos Demetriou for accepting our volume for publication in this series and to the team at Brill â especially Giulia Moriconi â for their careful editorial and administrative work at every stage of the process. Particular thanks, too, are owed to the anonymous reader for the press for their keen attention and incisive suggestions, as well as to Patrick Paul Hogan for saving us from several errors with his eagle-eyed copyediting.
Adam Goldwyn would further like to thank Dumbarton Oaks, Harvardâs Center for Byzantine Studies in Washington, DC, for a fellowship period during the 2016â17 academic year which enabled him to work on this volume, and in particular the Director of Byzantine Studies there, Elena Boeck, for being both a kind friend and skeptical mentor. A Humboldt Fellowship at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster for the academic year 2019â20 was also essential for bringing this volume to completion, and he would like to thank Professor Michael Grünbart for his support, as well as the members of the Byzantine research group, especially Paraskevi Toma, Stephanos Dimitriades, and Florin Filimon. He was also honored to receive the William M. Calder III Fellowship and extends his gratitude to the American Friends of the AvH Foundation. Special thanks also to Nike Makres at the Hellenic Education & Research Center for her friendship, hospitality, and wisdom during research trips to Greece during the time this volume was being completed.
Matthew Duquès would also like to extend his thanks to our esteemed contributors, to the Laura Harrison Foundation, to the English Department at the University of North Alabama, and to Dana D. Nelson and Diana Bellonby. Finally, he wants to add a special note of gratitude for his aunt Susan Brill de RamÃrez, who died before this collection was published and whose work on Native American Literature and Western philosophy has been a source of inspiration for him and many others.
Maya Feile Tomes wishes to echo the thanks to our indefatigable contributors, the reader for the press, and Giulia Moriconi, and also to record the names of those who at one time or other were involved with this project in earlier iterations, or who have offered invaluable advice along the way: Rosa Andújar, Desiree Arbo, Caroline Egan, Ben Folit-Weinberg, Ingo Gildenhard, Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves, Daniel Hutchins, Adriana Vázquez, and Brunno Vieira. Special thanks are also due to contributors Andrew Laird and David Lupher for their thoughts and feedback, and to Tulsi Parikh and Rasmus Sevelsted for their support at key junctures. Maya would like to dedicate the Iberian dimension of the volume to her three newest Luso-friends (and their classicist mothers), all born during the final months of the project: Lilian Belfield Santos, Artemis Bloomfield-Gadêlha, and Ayala Bur Amaral.