People Directory
FacultyBack to top | |||
 | Michael Fried | ||
 | Ruth Leys | ||
 | Leonardo Lisi | ||
 | Paola Marrati | ||
 | Yi-Ping Ong | ||
 | Neta Stahl | ||
 | Hent de Vries | ||
Visiting Faculty | |||
 | Kristin Boyce | ||
 | Victoria Cass | ||
 | Rachel Galvin Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Twentieth-century poetry in English, Spanish, and French; poetry of the Americas; literature and war; comparative poetics; Modernism; Oulipo; Hemispheric Studies | ||
 | Anne Eakin Moss | ||
 | Elizabeth Patton | ||
 | Sharlyn Rhee | ||
 | Nils F. Schott | ||
Emeritus | |||
 | Neil Hertz | ||
 | Richard A. Macksey | ||
Nancy Struever | |||
Joint Appointments | |||
 | Christopher Celenza | ||
 | Veena Das | ||
 | Frances Ferguson | ||
 | Eckart Förster | ||
 | Yitzhak Melamed Associate Professor (Philosophy): Early Modern Philosophy; German Idealism; Metaphysics; Time; Humanism and its Critiques; Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Rabbinics ymelame1@jhu.edu | ||
 | Jacques Neefs James M. Beall Professor of French (German and Romance Languages): 19th Century French Literature jneefs@jhu.edu | ||
 | Dimitrios Yatromanolakis | ||
StaffBack to top | |||
 | Marva Philip | ||
Jason Oliver | |||
Sue Waterman | |||
Graduate StudentsBack to top | |||
 | Sara El Amin I studied Mathematics and Philosophy. I did my masters in Contemporary Philosophy at Paris I Sorbonne University. Interests: Philosophy of language, Existentialism, the use of language in literature and philosophy; Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Foucault, Derrida. I also like doing realist theatre. saelam86@gmail.com | ||
 | Katherine Boyce-Jacino | ||
 | Martijn Buijs | ||
 | Misha Davidoff Interests: interpretative issues concerning the Critique of Pure Reason; psychoanalysis; the theological underpinnings of modern philosophy (especially empiricism, positivism and neopragmatism); the intersection of epistemology, phenomenology and hermeneutics; eschatology; part-whole dialectics, subject-object dialectics; the possibility of art. | ||
 | Thomas Dechand | ||
 | Benjamin DeForest | ||
 | Tarek Dika | ||
 | Danielle Dubois My research examines the history of religion and the intersections between Christian theology and secular philosophy, with a focus on conceptions of the soul and self. I am particularly interested in the rational and affective languages used to explore existential questions. My doctoral dissertation illuminates the theological and philosophical filiation of Marguerite Porete’s thirteenth-century text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, revealing Marguerite Porete’s intellectual stance vis-à-vis important medieval debates (e.g. beatitude, soteriology), as well as the work’s intended function as spiritual exercise. This term I am teaching “Cultivation of the Self: A History of Spiritual Exercises,” which develops the theme of reading, writing, and dialogue as tools for transforming thought and being in Christian and Hellenistic texts, as well as in continental philosophical works. Future projects include investigations of the figure of Mary Magdalene in the Mirror and the impact of theological motifs on conceptions of the self in modern philosophical discourse. danielle.dubois@jhu.edu | ||
 | John Duda I am currently finishing a dissertation on the way in which the concept of "self-organization" has been developed in both the sciences and within political thought, examining, on the one hand, the trajectory of this notion within cybernetics---especially the "second-order cybernetics" associated with the Biological Computer Laboratory, and, on the other, the parallel trajectory of the same notion within the radical left (primarily the anarchism of the New Left and American autonomist Marxism). This project draws on my wider interests in the history and theory of science and technology, particularly that of "the network society" but of also 20th century heterodox biology, as well as my interest in the history and practice of social movements, especially those concerned with autonomy, horizontalism, and decentralization. A number of those latter themes have also found their way into my research on cities as a terrain for social justice organizing, as well as the 2009 collection I edited for the Charles H. Kerr company, "Wanted! Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane: Fighting for Free Speech with the Hobo Agitators of the Industrial Workers of the World." john@manifestor.org | ||
 | Elena Fabietti Interests: Elena Fabietti studied Italian and Comparative Literature in Milan, Berlin and Siena. She worked on the theory of representation in Erich Auerbach. Her current research regards figurality in modern poetry, with a special focus on the works of Baudelaire and Rilke elena_fabietti@msn.com | ||
 | Loumia Ferhat | ||
 | Ben Gillespie Interests: the visual schema of the page; text and the body; prosody and formalism; 19th- and 20th-century poetry, especially Dickinson, Whitman, Bishop, Z. Herbert, and Mallarmé; modern and contemporary art; intellectual property; notions of originality, uniqueness, and the individual; Derrida, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, and Nancy. | ||
 | Scott Gottbreht Scott Gottbreht is a 5th year graduate student whose work focuses on the interdisciplinary intersection of literature, philosophy, and political theory. His interests include theories of empowerment, violence, and oppression. He has taught courses on urbanity and sexual empowerment, and his dissertation research centers around the promises and pitfalls of anonymous social advocacies as strategies of resistance and forces of domination. gottbreht@hotmail.com | ||
 | Nicole Jerr Research Interests: History and theory of drama, with particular attention to representations of sovereignty in modern drama; concepts of tragedy and comedy; literary and philosophical explorations of skepticism, faith, love, fury, and grace; the reception of classical texts and mythology; moral and aesthetic philosophy. nicole@jhu.edu | ||
 | Kate Khatib Kate Khatib is an editor at AK Press and holds a BA in English and in Continental Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Masters degree in Philosophy and Cultural Analysis and an MPhil in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. She has written in the past on Walter Benjamin and the philosophy of history, and is currently at work on her dissertation, Surrealism's America: The Chicago Surrealist Group and the Historical Imagination, which explores the genesis and development of America's first homegrown surrealist group, in the context of their radically new approach to the work of the historian. Her first book, A Brief History of the Chicago Anthropological Society, which germinated from research conducted under the auspices of her field exam in American Intellectual History, will be published by Charles H. Kerr Company in 2011. kate@manifestor.org | ||
| Jane Lesnick jane.lesnick@gmail.com | |||
 | Larry McGrath Larry McGrath works on modern European intellectual history of metaphysics and aesthetics. His interests include the reception of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer in France, phenomenology, French vitalism and philosophies of life (Bergson, Canguilhem, Deleuze), and the history of cinema. Larry also loves listening to Bob Dylan. lmcgrath@jhu.edu | ||
 | Omid Mehrgan | ||
Ahn Nguyen | |||
 | Rebbeca Pekron Interests: 19th-Century painting (Manet, Courbet, Ensor), art criticism, poetry (Mallarmé), biography, autobiography, and self-portraiture. My dissertation focuses on French literary tombeaux, with a particular emphasis on the tombeaux poems of Stéphane Mallarmé. rebecca.pekron@gmail.com | ||
 | John Polewach Interests: philosophy of music and comparative aesthetics, especially late 19th and early 20th century. jpolewach@jhu.edu | ||
 | Avraham Rot Interests: Philosophy, sociology, psychology and history of the emotion; Boredom, repetition, novelty, modernity and time; Social meaning, public engagement, and collective action after “the end of ideology” and “the end of history”; American intellectual history in the 1960s; Luhmann, Deleuze, Spinoza, Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Nietzsche. avreimir@yahoo.com | ||
 | Daniel Schwartz Interests: philosophies and literature of music (Kierkegaard, E.T.A Hoffman, Hermann Broch, Thomas Mann, Adorno), optical illusions and pre-cinema (Werner Nekes), film (soviet comedy, Georgi Daneliya, Tarkovsky, Kalatozov), Andrei Bely, Kierkegaard and Heidegger. dps1986@gmail.com | ||
 | Benjamin Stein Before coming to the Humanities Center, Benjamin studied at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. His interests include the question of the subject in 19th and 20th century German and French literature and thought, as well as broader issues posed by literary philosophy and philosophic style; Nietzsche, Blumenberg, Bataille, Beckett, Kafka, Ponge… | ||
 | Cara Weber Cara Weber is interested in the way literature imagines possibilities for human community, in the intersections of literature and philosophy, and in the way both consider their relation to everyday life. Her dissertation examines representations of marriage in novels by Barrett Browning, Eliot, Gissing, and Hardy to reveal a strain of realist thought which understands itself as protesting, critiquing, and pointing beyond contemporary conditions in its attentive recounting of them. These investigations of marriage relationships comprise a revision of the Romantic vision of reconciliation by conceiving the process of reconciliation not in terms of the mind's relationship to nature or the internal dynamics of the individual, but rather as the struggle of the embodied self situated in relation to others. caraweber@hotmail.com | ||
 | Ximena Vengoechea Interests: intersections of image and text, questions of perception, spectatorship and space in literature and visual culture, reception aesthetics, representations of the body. xvengoe1@jhu.edu | ||
| Ygrène Chevrier Visiting student ygrene.chevrier@ens.fr | |||
 | Veli N. Yashin | ||
Associates
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 | Jean-Luc Marion | ||
 | Robert Pippin | ||
 | Sari Nusseibeh | ||
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