Notes on Contributors
Christine Bénévent is Professor of book history at the École Nationale des Chartes (Paris). Her research focuses mainly on humanism of the early 16th century, in particular on Erasmus and Budé. She has just published Miroirs d’encre. Histoire du livre, désirs de lecture (EHESS editions, 2022).
Jan Bloemendal is a senior researcher and coordinator of the Erasmi Opera Omnia (ASD) at the Huygens Institute for the History and Culture of the Netherlands (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), and PrivatDozent at the Ruhr-University Bochum. His publications include the ASD volumes VII, 2 and VII, 3A (Paraphrases on Luke and John), the edited volume Bilingual Europe (2015), the co-edited volume (with Howard B. Norland), Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe (2013) and a special issue of Renaissance Studies (with James A. Parente, Jr. and Nigel Smith) “Transnational Exchange in the Early Modern Low Countries.”
Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor at the University of York in the Department of English and Related Literature and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has given the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford and the M.M. Phillips Lecture for the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society. His books include Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book (2022). Currently he is a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow working on a forthcoming study of Erasmus, The Art of Reading.
Robert Kilpatrick is Professor of French at the University of West Georgia, and currently serves as Chair of the Regents Advisory Committee for languages within the University System of Georgia. His research investigates the collection and reception of classical fragments in sixteenth-century compilations such as Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Adagia and Apophthegmata, and their redeployment in new literary contexts. He has published articles on these topics in Erasmus Studies and Montaigne Studies.
Greta Kroeker is Associate Professor of History with a cross-appointment to the Gender and Social Justice program at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of Erasmus in the Footsteps of Paul (University of Toronto Press, 2011).
Eric MacPhail is Professor of French at Indiana University and editor of Erasmus Studies.
Terence J. Martin is Professor Emeritus from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of Living Words: Studies in Dialogues about Religion (Scholars Press, 1998) and Truth and Irony: Philosophical Meditations on Erasmus (Catholic University of America Press, 2015). In recent years he has written on Erasmus’ handling of a variety of theological and ethical topics.
Paul J. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. His major book publications include Het schouwtoneel der dieren. Embleemfabels in de Nederlanden (1567–ca. 1670) (2006); Dispositio. Problematic Ordering in French Renaissance Literature (2007), and Réécrire la Renaissance, de Marcel Proust à Michel Tournier (2009). He co-edited several volumes, of which the most recent are Emblems and the Natural World (2017) with Karl Enenkel; Natural History in Early Modern France (2018) with Raphaële Garrod; and three volumes with Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou: Langues hybrides. Expérimentations linguistiques et littéraires (XVe-début XVIIe siècle). Hybridsprachen. Linguistische und literarische Untersuchungen (15.-Anfang 17. Jh.) (2019), Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books. A Scholarly Anthology (2020), and Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe (2021).
Joan Tello (PhD in Philosophy, BA in Classical Philology) is currently a Postdoc Researcher in Philosophy at the Universitat de Barcelona / Stockholm University on the project “Towards a complete analysis of the term animus: A contribution to philosophy of mind.” His fields of research include Humanism and Renaissance Philosophy, Aristotle and the Latin tradition, and History of the Book. He has studied, edited, or translated several works of Joan Lluís Vives (De subventione pauperum, 2008; De Aristotelis operibus censura, 2019; Aedes legum, 2020; Satellitium sive symbola, 2020; Introductio ad sapientiam, PhD thesis 2022) and Erasmus of Rotterdam (Adagia, 2018; Augustini opera omnia, 2022). He is now preparing for publication a revised and enlarged version of his catalogue of Vives’ works (2018).
Anita Traninger is Full Professor of Romance Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the shape of knowledge, predominantly in the early modern period, and specifically with a view to European literatures in a global context. Her books include: Disputation, Deklamation, Dialog. Medien und Gattungen europäischer Wissensverhandlungen zwischen Scholastik und Humanismus (Stuttgart: Steiner 2012); The Emergence of Impartiality (ed. with Kathryn Murphy, Leiden: Brill 2014); Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period (ed. with Karl A.E. Enenkel, Leiden: Brill 2015); The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture (ed. with Karl A.E. Enenkel, Leiden: Brill 2018); Copia / Kopie: Echoeffekte in der Frühen Neuzeit (Hannover: Wehrhahn 2020).
Alexandre Vanautgaerden was for many years the director of the Erasmus Museum in Brussels before taking over the direction of the Library of Geneva. Now an Honorary Reader at the University of Warwick and a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, he is the author of Érasme typographe: Humanisme et imprimerie au début du XVIe siècle (Geneva: Droz, 2012).
Mark Vessey is Professor of English Literature at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He will edit a selection of Erasmus’ patristic scholarship (excluding the edition of St Jerome) for Volume 62 of the Collected Works of Erasmus published (in English) by the University of Toronto Press.