Eduardo Cadava is Philip Mathew Professor of English, and an Associate Member of the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the School of Architecture, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, at Princeton University. He has written extensively on literature, philosophy, architecture, music, democracy, war, memory and forgetting, race and slavery, human rights and citizenship, and the ethics of decision. He is author of Words of Light (Princeton University Press, 1998), Emerson and the Climates of History (Stanford University Press, 1997), and Paper Graveyards (MIT Press 2021).