Susan H. Gillespie is the founder of Bard College’s Institute for International Liberal Education and Bard College Fellow in Translation and Translatability. Her translations of Theodor W. Adorno include his Essays on Music, ed. Richard Leppert (15 of 27 essays), his writings on Surrealism and correspondence with Elisabeth Lenk, and numerous shorter works. Her writing on translation has been published in In Other Words, Logos (in Russian), New German Critique, and Raritan, among others.

Susan H. Gillespie

Samantha Rose Hill is the assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and visiting assistant professor of political studies at Bard College. She is also associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is the author of a forthcoming biography on Hannah Arendt, and Hannah Arendt’s Poems. You can find her work here: www.samantharosehill.com.

Samantha Rose Hill

On Walter Benjamin’s Legacy: A Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Susan H. Gillespie is the founder of Bard College’s Institute for International Liberal Education and Bard College Fellow in Translation and Translatability. Her translations of Theodor W. Adorno include his Essays on Music, ed. Richard Leppert (15 of 27 essays), his writings on Surrealism and correspondence with Elisabeth Lenk, and numerous shorter works. Her writing on translation has been published in In Other Words, Logos (in Russian), New German Critique, and Raritan, among others.