About Author

James Balakier is an associate professor of English literature at the University of South Dakota. He holds a PhD and an MA from Ohio University and a BA from St. Vincent College. Dr. Balakier’s previous publications include The Competing Epistemologies of Thomas Traherne and Thomas Hobbes: The Grounds of Felicity; Traherne, Husserl, and a Unitary Act of Consciousness; James Thornhill’s The Glorification of William and Mary: A Newtonian Spatial Allegory, which was coauthored with Dr. Ann Stewart Balakier; and The Spatial Infinite at Greenwich in Works by Christopher Wren, James Thornhill and James Thomson: The Newton Connection, which was also coauthored by Dr. Ann Stewart Balakier.