Visiting Scholars for 2011-2012:
Professor Kerline Devise studied the politics and aesthetics of bodies as conceived by Michel Foucault at the University of Paris and is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure de Haiti. She is currently conducting research for a paper titled “Politics of the Page, the Body, Love and Putrefaction in the Literary Works of Monique Wittig.”
Professor Natalia Laranjinha received her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Lisbon and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University Dom Alfonso III and is director of the CLINUAF (Languages Centre). She is currently conducting research for her upcoming book on the literary and philosophical incursions in Lars von Trier cinema.
Professor Diane Rubenstein received her PhD in Political Science at Yale University and is currently a Professor of Government and American Studies at Cornell University. Professor Rubenstein is working on two book projects, one on Jean Baudrillard, and a second titled Derrida without Borders: Hospitality, Pedagogy, Politics.
Professor Steven Meyer received his PhD in English Language and Literature from Yale University, and is currently an Associate Professor in English at Washington University. He is completing research for a project titled Robust Empiricisms: Jamesian Modernism between the Disciplines, 1878 to the Present.
Professor Alberto Toscano received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Professor Toscano’s research will focus on the relationship between the political, philosophical, and economical theories of abstraction, growing out of this book on fanaticism and some recent work on Marxist theories of ‘real abstraction.’
Professor Kerline Devise studied the politics and aesthetics of bodies as conceived by Michel Foucault at the University of Paris and is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure de Haiti. She is currently conducting research for a paper titled “Politics of the Page, the Body, Love and Putrefaction in the Literary Works of Monique Wittig.”
Professor Natalia Laranjinha received her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Lisbon and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University Dom Alfonso III and is director of the CLINUAF (Languages Centre). She is currently conducting research for her upcoming book on the literary and philosophical incursions in Lars von Trier cinema.
Professor Diane Rubenstein received her PhD in Political Science at Yale University and is currently a Professor of Government and American Studies at Cornell University. Professor Rubenstein is working on two book projects, one on Jean Baudrillard, and a second titled Derrida without Borders: Hospitality, Pedagogy, Politics.
Professor Steven Meyer received his PhD in English Language and Literature from Yale University, and is currently an Associate Professor in English at Washington University. He is completing research for a project titled Robust Empiricisms: Jamesian Modernism between the Disciplines, 1878 to the Present.
Professor Alberto Toscano received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Professor Toscano’s research will focus on the relationship between the political, philosophical, and economical theories of abstraction, growing out of this book on fanaticism and some recent work on Marxist theories of ‘real abstraction.’