Michael Eskin was educated in Israel, Germany, France, Minnesota, and New Jersey, and is the cofounder and Vice President of Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.--Studio & Publishing, as well as the Vice President of SCALG, the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German. A former Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he has also taught at the University of Cambridge and at Columbia University. His many publications on cultural, philosophical, and literary subjects include: THE WISDOM OF PARENTHOOD: AN ESSAY (2013), Nabokovs Version von Puskins "Evgenij Onegin" Zwischen Version und Fiktion--eine ubersetzungs- und fiktionstheoretische Untersuchung (1994); Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan (2000); On Literature and Ethics: A Special Edition of Poetics Today (2004); Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky (2008); 17 Vorurteile, die wir Deutschen gegen Amerika und die Amerikaner haben und die so nicht ganz stimmen koennen (under the pseudonym 'Misha Waiman'; 2008); Philosophical Fragments of a Contemporary Life (under the pseudonym 'Julien David'; 2008); THE DNA OF PREJUDICE: ON THE ONE AND THE MANY (2010; winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Social Change); The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays by Durs Grunbein (2010; as editor). He has been a frequent guest on radio programs and lectures regularly on cultural, philosophical, and literary subjects across the US and Europe--most recently, as a guest of the United States Department of State and the United States Consulate General Germany, The Federation of German-American Clubs, and Limmud, an international organization fostering cross-cultural Jewish education.
