Douglas R. Hofstadter

College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature; Director, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. Known for writings on mind, creativity, and language. Several seminal and influential books on consciousness, analogy, high-level perception, translation, and creativity: the Pulitzer-Prize winning G?del, Escher, Bach (1979), The Mind?s I (1981, coedited with Daniel C. Dennett), Metamagical Themas (1985), Ambigrammi (1987), Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (1995), Le Ton beau de Marot (1997), I Am a Strange Loop (2007), and Translator, Trader (2009). Translations of novels: That Mad Ache (originally La Chamade) from French, by Fran?oise Sagan; The Discovery of Dawn (originally La Scoperta dell'Alba) from Italian, by Walter Veltroni; and Eugene Onegin: A Novel Versification from Russian (originally Evgenij Onegin: Roman v Stixax), by Alexander Pushkin.