BodyText2
Andrew S. Curran is an 18th-century specialist. His writing
has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, Time magazine,
Newsweek, The Paris Review, El País, and The Wall Street Journal. He is
also the author of three books. His most recent book, Diderot and the
Art of Thinking Freely (Other Press, 2019), was named one of the best
biographies of 2019 by El Cultural, Kirkus Reviews, The Australian, The
Irish Times, NRC, and Open Letters Review, and is being translated into
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese.
Curran’s previous book was The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery
in an Era of Enlightenment, which was A Choice Outstanding Academic
Title. Translated into French as L’Anatomie de la noirceur, this same
book also received the 2018 Louis Marin Prize from the French l’Académie
des sciences d’outre-mer. His new book, edited with Henry Louis Gates,
Jr., is titled Who is Black and Why? Race, Enlightenment, and Slavery
at the Bordeaux Royal Academy of Sciences, and is forthcoming from
Harvard University Press in March 2022. Curran is a fellow in the
history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine and a Chevalier
dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques. He has also received grants and
fellowships from the French Government, The Mellon Foundation, The
National Endowment for the Humanities, most recently an NEH Public
Scholarship. Curran lives in Connecticut, USA, where he is the William
Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University.