Kevin Dann, Ph.D., has taught history at SUNY Plattsburgh, the University of Vermont, and Rutgers University. His books include "Lewis Creek Lost and Found" (University Press of New England, 2001); "Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America" (Rutgers University Press, 2000); and "Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge" (Yale University Press, 1998).