New York-based philosopher and critic Michael Eskin has taught at the University of Cambridge and Columbia University. His books include Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel’shtam, and Celan (2000), Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky (2008), and Descartes der Metapher: Neun Tauchgänge ins Dichterdasein Durs Grünbeins (2022).