Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. The most recent of his ten books are Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema, co-edited with Daniel Goldmark and Lawrence Kramer, published by the University of California Press; and Sound Judgment, for the Ashgate series Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology. Edward Muir is the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and holds a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. Besides receiving Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, he has been a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Humanities Center. He is a general editor of the book series "Palgrave Early Modern History: Culture and Society," and the series editor for the "I Tatti Italian Renaissance History" monograph series with Harvard University Press. He is the author of Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice, which won the Adams and Marraro Prizes, and Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy, which also won the Marraro Prize. Leon Plantinga served on the Yale faculty from 1963 until his retirement in 2005. For six years in the 1990s, he was the Director of the Division of the Humanities. After retirement Plantinga spent a year at the Princeton Institute for Advance Study, and is currently Interim Director of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. He has written widely on music of the later eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, including Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance (W. W.