Andrew S. Curran

Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of Humanities at Wesleyan University. A writer-scholar fascinated by the eighteenth century, his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, TIME, Paris Review, El País and The Wall Street Journal. Curran is the author and editor of five books, including Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, and, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Who’s Black and Why?.