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Peter L. Berger

University Professor Emeritus, Director, Institute on Culture, Relgion, and World Affairs, Boston University.

Professor Berger has written numerous books on sociological theory, the sociology of religion, and Third World development. He is Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University.

Rodolfo Cardona

University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Modern Foreign Languages and Comparative Studies.

Professor Cardona's interests revolve around the visual arts, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel, contemporary theatre, comparative literature, and creative writing.

D.S. Carne-Ross

University Professor Emeritus; Professor Emeritus of Classics and Modern Languages.

Professor Carne-Ross has written extensively on translation as the point of interaction between languages and cultures past and present, covering classical Greek, Latin, and English and Italian literature. He was one of the founders of the first series of Arion, a journal of humanities and the classics, and founder of Delos, the journal of the National Translation Center.

Gerald Fitzgerald

University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Author of two volumes of poems, The Worldless Flesh (1961) and Daughters of Earth, Sons of Heaven (1969); translator of Renato Poggioli's Theory of the Avant-Garde (1968, 1971, 1981, 1991) and of poems, mainly Italian. Currently working on a study of the poems of Edmund Spenser.

Geoffrey Hill

University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Literature and Religion, College of Arts and Sciences.

Author of a dozen books of poetry and three books of criticism. From 1988 to 2006 he taught as a University Professor and Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University. He is also Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford; Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His Collected Critical Writings is under contract with Oxford University Press.

Norman A. Lichtin

University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry.

Dr. Lichtin's research applies physical and organic chemistry to new methods of destroying hazardous pollutants. He is the senior inventor of twelve patents.

Claudio Véliz

University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of History.

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, La Trobe University; founder and first Director of the Institute of International Studies, University of Chile; 1969 Dyason Memorial Lecturer; Guggenheim Fellow, 1975; Grand Officer of the Gabriela Mistral Order of the Government of Chile, 2003; author of The New World of the Gothic Fox; California, 1994.

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