A Professor of Political Science at Assumption University in Worcester, MA, Bernard J. (BJ) Dobski is currently a Visiting Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. He has published numerous essays, book chapters, reviews, and edited volumes on the political wisdom of Thucydides, Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. His most recent book, Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity, was published last fall with Palgrave Macmillan. He is currently at work on a second book on Twain, tentatively titled, Mark Twain, Midwife of America: Technology, Freedom, and Natural Right.
