Paola Marrati

The Humanities Center
Dell House 301A
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-516-0542
Fax: 410-516-4897
E-mail: pmarrati@jhu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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Since January 2003, Paola Marrati has held a joint appointment as Professor in the Humanities Center and the Department of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University. Before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins she held the Chair of Philosophy of Art and Culture in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

She is currently Director of the Program for Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and member of the Advisory Board of the Film and Media Studies Program. She is also Director of Research Program at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris (2001-2007. Paola Marrati's page : http://www.ciph.org/recherche.php?idDP=47.

Paola Marrati received her MA in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy. She received her DEA (Diplome d'Etudes Approfrondies) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and her PhD in Philosophy at the Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg , France. Her previous teaching and research positions include: Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; NWO (Dutch National Scientific Council) Senior Research Fellow at the Brabant University, The Netherlands; Visiting Professor at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Créteil-Paris XII.

Her teaching focuses on modern and contemporary philosophy in both the European and American traditions, Feminist and Queer Theory, and Film Studies. Some of her recent courses and seminars include: Gilles Deleuze: The Philosophy , French and American Pragmatism, The Event and the Ordinary: On the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavel, Bergson and the Problem of Novelty in Philosophy, Concepts of Life, Who or What exactely is the Other?, What Can a Body Do?, Thinking Films, Kinship to Come.

Her principal publications include: Genesis and Trace. Derrida Reader of Husserl and Heidegger (Stanford University Press, 2005, translated from French, La génèse et la trace, Phaenomenologica, Kluwer, 1998), Gilles Deleuze. Cinéma et Philosophie (Presses Universitaires de France, 2003, translated in Spanish, Nueva Vision, Buenos Aires, 2006, forthcoming enlarged edition, JHU Press, 2007). Currently she is completing a book manuscript entitled The Event and the Ordinary: On the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell.

She recently organised with Jane Bennet and Todd Meyers an international conference Concepts of Life (http://www.conceptsoflife.org), proceedings are forthcoming by Stanford University Press.

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