Jan H. Blits is Emeritus Professor in University Honors Faculty at the University of Delaware. He received his B.A. from St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, and his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in New York City. He has served as Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy, has won the University of Delaware's Excellence in Teaching Award, and was the 2011 winner of the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award.

Professor Blits is the author of seven books, including, most recently, New Heaven, New Earth: Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra' (Lexington Books, 2009) and Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World (Lexington Books, 2011). His articles have appeared in The Review of Politics, The Journal of Politics, Political Theory, Interpretation, Apeiron, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, The Public Interest, Educational Theory, and other journals.