Richard Dagger Editor & Author

Richard Dagger is E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. In addition to numerous articles in political and legal philosophy, he is coauthor of Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal and author of Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism and of the forthcoming Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment. Christopher Metress is University Professor and Associate Provost for Academics at Samford University, where teaches courses in literature, history, and the western intellectual tradition. His essays have appeared such journals as the Southern Review, Studies in the Novel, and the African American Review, and he serves on the editorial board of English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920. He has published three books, most recently Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (co-edited with Harriet Pollack). J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and the Series editor of ACTC Proceedings