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Hent de Vries is Paulette Goddard Professor of the Humanities at New York University and director of the summer School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. Before joining NYU, de Vries directed the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University, holding the Russ Family Chair in the Humanities with a joint appointment in philosophy. De Vries is author, most recently, of Miracles et métaphysique (2019), the text of his Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and of Le miracle au coeur de l'ordinaire (2018).