<b>Michael D. Weinman</b> (b. 1976) is a <a href="http://www.ecla.de/?id=290">member of the faculty</a> at ECLA of Bard, a liberal arts college in Berlin, where he teaches interdisciplinary courses in the humanities and social sciences. He has authored numerous books, papers and chapters in philosophy and allied fields, including <i>Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics</i> and <i>Language, Time and Identity in Woolf's The Waves</i>. Weinman received his undergraduate education at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a>, a <a href="http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/curriculum/index.cfm">Great Books</a> school in Illinois, and his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. He subsequently taught at another Great Books college, <a href="http://www.sjca.edu/">St. John's</a>, and later at Ben-Gurion University, before coming to ECLA in 2010. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/Michael_Weinman#Brief_description">Shimer College Wiki</a>)