Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities. Educated at Jerusalem and Oxford, he was chair of the Temple University Philosophy Department before coming to FAU in 2005. He has held academic appointments in Paris, Berlin, Hiroshima, Beijing, Shanghai, and Rome, and was awarded senior research Fulbright and NEH fellowships. His widely translated research covers many topics in the human and social sciences with particular emphasis on questions of philosophy, aesthetics, culture, identity, and embodiment. These topics converge in his project of somaesthetics. Authored books include T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (Columbia), Practicing Philosophy (Routledge), Performing Live (Cornell), Surface and Depth (Cornell), Pragmatist Aesthetics (Blackwell, 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, and translated into 14 languages), and more recently three books on somaesthetics with Cambridge University Press: Body Consciousness; Thinking through the Body; and Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love. His non-technical essays have been published in the Nation and the Chronicle of Higher Education and in various art reviews and catalogues, such as artpress and Dokumenta, while his work in performance art finds expression in his graphic novella, The Adventures of the Man in Gold. Shusterman directs the FAU Center for Body, Mind, and Culture (www.fau.edu/artsandletters/bodymindculture/); his FAU webpage is www.fau.edu/artsandletters/humanitieschair/.