Michael Eskin has taught at University of Cambridge, UK and Columbia University, USA. He is a critic, translator, philosopher and publisher, and his books include Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel’shtam, and Celan (2000), Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky (2008), The DNA of Prejudice: On the One and the Many (2010), Descartes der Metapher: Neun Tauchgänge ins Dichterdasein Durs Grünbeins (2022), Childhood: An Essay on the Human Condition (2024), Discursive Osmosis: Essays on Language, Literature, and Philosophy (forthcoming, 2026), and Anti-Zionism, Mistranslation, and the Problem of the Century: From W. E. B. Du Bois to Edward W. Said to Ta-Nehisi Coates (forthcoming, 2026).