Hans Kellner teaches in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Lanuague and Historical Representation: Getting the Story Crooked and co-editor (with F.R. Ankersmit) of A New Philosophy of History. He has puplished many essays in historical and rhetorical theory, including, "Ankersmit's Proposal: Let's Keep in Touch", CLIO (2007), "'However Imperceptibly': From the Historical to the Sublime," PMLA (2003), and "'See Also Literary Criticism': Social Science between Fact and Figures." in Blackwell's Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences ( 2003).