Margaret Morganroth Gullette is the author most recently of Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America (University of Chicago Press, 2011), a 2012 winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award, soon to be translated into German. Aged by Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2004) was chosen a Noteworthy Book of the Year by The Christian Science Monitor. Declining to Decline (University of Virginia Press, 1997) received the Emily Toth Award as the “best feminist book on American popular culture.” Gullette’s essays are often cited as notable in Best American Essays. She writes and blogs frequently for national and international audiences; her “Agewise” blog is at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Agewise-by-Margaret-Morganroth-Gullette/185873728093390. She is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.
Douglas A. Knight is the Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. Since receiving his Th.D. from the University of Göttingen in Germany, he has taught at Vanderbilt and served as visiting professor in Jerusalem, Kyoto, Hong Kong, Denver, and Missoula. Knight’s research and teaching focus on the Pentateuch, law, exilic prophecy, wisdom books, biblical ethics, Israel’s social history, ancient Near Eastern cultures and literatures, and the history of biblical interpretation. His recent books are Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel (Westminster John Knox, 2011) and The Meaning of the Bible (HarperOne, 2011, co-authored with Amy-Jill Levine). He is currently working on a commentary on the book of Joshua.
Harry R. Moody (Ph.D., Columbia University) has authored more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. His books include Aging: Concepts and Controversies, a gerontology textbook now in its8th edition (SAGE Publications, 2014), Religion, Spirituality, and Aging: A Social Work Perspective (Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2005), and The Five Stages of the Soul (Doubleday Anchor, 1997).
W. Andrew Achenbaum (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is an historian and gerontologist who also writes and teaches in the area of aging and spirituality. His most recent book is Robert N. Butler, M.D.: Visionary of Healthy Aging (Columbia University Press, 2013). A cradle Episcopalian, Achenbaum is an active layperson in the Diocese of Texas. He has now reached that stage of life where it is important to practice what he has preached.
Henry C. Simmons (Ph.D., University of Ottawa, Interdisciplinary Religious Studies) is Professor Emeritus of Christian Education at Union Presbyterian Seminary. He previously taught at Presbyterian School of Christian Education (PSCE), where he was Professor of Religion and Aging and Director of the Center on Aging. After PSCE merged with Union Presbyterian Seminary, Simmons taught Christian Spirituality, Ecological Theology, Curriculum Theory, and Congregational Studies, and directed doctoral dissertations in Christian Education. His most recent book, co-written with A. M. Dalton of St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, is Ecotheology and the Practice of Hope (State University of New York, 2010).
Thomas Lynch is the author of five collections of poems, three books of essays, and a book of stories, Apparition & Late Fictions (W. W. Norton, 2010). The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade (W. W. Norton, 1997) won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Lynch’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, The New Yorker, Esquire, Poetry, and The Paris Review, also The Times (of New York, Los Angeles, London, and Ireland). It has also been the subject of two documentary films, Learning Gravity by Cathal Black (2007) and PBS Frontline’s The Undertaking (2007). He lives in Michigan and Moveen, West Clare, Ireland.
