Steven Shankman holds the UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace at the University of Oregon. He is also Distinguished Professor of English and Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue at the University of Oregon. He is a participating faculty member in the Comparative Literature program at Oregon. Before coming to Oregon, he taught at Princeton, Columbia, and Harvard. His work in the Western classical tradition includes Pope’s Iliad: Homer in the Age of Passion (1983) and In Search of the Classic: Reconsidering the Classical Tradition, Homer to Valéry and Beyond (1994). His Penguin edition of Pope’s Iliad appeared in 1996. Some of his recent work, including The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China (co-authored with Stephen Durrant, 2000) and Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons (co-edited by Stephen Durrant, 2002), compares classical traditions. With Stephen Durrant and four others, he is an editor of The World of Literature (1999), an anthology of world literature from a global perspective, which contains some of his own poetic translations from Chinese, Greek, and Latin. He is the author of Kindred Verses (2000), a book of poems. His poetry has appeared in a number of journals including Sewanee Review, Literary Imagination, and Poetica Magazine. His book Other Others: Levinas/Literature/Transcultural Studies is forthcoming from SUNY Press. He has been a Guggenheim and an NEH Fellow. He is currently chair of the Committee on Intercultural Studies of the International Comparative Literature Association.