| Gülru Çakmak Interests: the history of the avant-garde in the context of social change and political intervention, with specific focus on 19th century French art and early Soviet avant-garde. E-mail:gulru.cakmak@jhu.edu Thomas A. Crain Director, BSIS and Odyssey Programs, SPSBE Shaffer 201 Interests: literature and philosophy; ethical and epistemological systems; origins and evolutions; truth and lies; self and other; Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Hardy, Proust, Stevens, Pound. E-mail:tcrain@jhu.edu Thomas Dechand Interests: American pragmatism (C. S. Peirce), 19-20th century American Intellectual History, Melville, James, Stevens, Pynchon. E-mail:dechand@jhu.edu
Benjamin DeForest Interests: the history of western scholarly practices, especially since the advent of the university; intellectual disciplinarity as a philosophical problem; Romantic thought and literature; Vico, Goethe, Heidegger, Auerbach. E-mail: deforest@jhu.edu
Tarek Dika Interests: Phenomenology, Skepticism, History Of Metaphysics E-mail:tdika@jhu.edu Danielle Dubois Interests: questions of self-knowledge and education, the evolution of the meaning of error and its various forms. E-mail:danielle.dubois@jhu.edu John Duda Interests: intersections of science and politics in the 19th-21st centuries. E-mail:john@manifestor.org Jeroen Gerrits Interests: notions of memory, perception, thinking, and the unthought in late 19th and 20th century theory, literature, photography and (avant-garde) film. E-mail:jeroengerrits@jhu.edu Thomas Gottbreht E-mail:gottbreht@hotmail.com Kate Khatib Interests: theories of revolt and resistance literature of the middle twentieth century, with a special emphasis on French and American Surrealism, and American cultural theory between the New Deal and the New Left. E-mail:kate@manifestsor.org Nicole Krysinski E-mail: nicolejk@mac.com
Jane Lesnick E-mail:jlesnick@jhu.edu
Larry McGrath E-mail:lmcgrath@jhu.edu
Anh Nguyen Interests: German and English literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. E-mail:anguyen@jhu.edu Rebbeca Pekron Interests: painting and poetry of 19th century France , with a particular emphasis on the ways in which notions of "surface" emerge in painting, poetry, and literature. E-mail:rpekron1@jhu.edu John Polewach Interests: philosophy of music and comparative aesthetics, especially late 19th and early 20th century. E-mail: jpolewach@jhu.edu Nils F. Schott Interests: Nils F. Schott (B.A., The American University of Paris; M.A., Johns Hopkins) works on European literature, philosophy, and culture with an emphasis on the period 1650-1850, but also on contemporary philosophy and theory. He is particularly interested in the appropriation and transformation of theological legacies and in the ways in which the insights of literary theory shed light on decidedly non-literary texts. Nils is currently completing his dissertation, "The Conversion of Knowledge--Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Catechisms." E-mail:n.schott@jhu.edu Martin Shuster Interests: Kant, Post-Kantian Philosophy (broadly construed to include Fichte, Hegel, Adorno, and Cavell), Jewish Thought and Philosophy, and being interested E-mail:vanity@jhu.edu Joyce Tsai Interests: Art History, History of Photography, Aesthetic Philosophy, Critical Theory. E-mail:jtsai5@jhu.edu Félix Blanc Cara Weber Interests: 19th & early 20th century British literature, philosophy, feminism. E-mail:caraweber@hotmail.com Ximena Vengoechea Interests: intersections of image and text, questions of perception, spectatorship and space in literature and visual culture, reception aesthetics, hysteria, representations of the body. Email: xvengoe1@jhu.edu
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