Noushin Ahdoot

Noushin Ahdoot

  • Research Interests:  Philosophy of literature, ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), tragedy, the modern novel
Mengqi An

Mengqi An

  • man8@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  Chinese-Sinophone literature, Russian-Russophone literature, ecocriticism, modernity and modernism, transnational literary studies, borderland studies
Nicholas Bosi

Nicholas Bosi (he/him/his)

  • nbosi1@jh.edu
  • Research Interests:  ethics of cross-cultural philosophy; Brazilian literature and philosophy (Clarice Lispector, Benedito Nunes); film-philosophy; ordinary language philosophy; opacity; exile and immigration
Emilee Brecht

Emilee Brecht

  • Research Interests:  20th-century European literature and philosophy; ethics and theories of attention (Weil, Murdoch, Kierkegaard); environmental humanities; epistemology of the natural and human sciences (esp. Michel Serres)
Ezgi Ince

Ezgi Ince

  • eince1@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  Intersectional themes across text, image, and music; jazz; sociology of art and music; aesthetics; modernism and avant-garde; poetry and the visual arts in the 20th and 21st centuries; American popular[…]
Bohyun Kum

Bohyun Kum

  • Visiting Graduate Student
  • bkum1@jh.edu
  • Research Interests:  Early twentieth-century Korean literature and media; postcolonialism; urban uncanny; East Asian comparative literature; contemporary theater; translation

Anne Merrill (she/her/hers)

  • amerri10@jh.edu
  • Research Interests:  Environmental humanities; literary ecology; nonhumans; embodiment; “unwatchable” and slow film/theater; 20th & 21st C. narrative voice
Marshall Meyer

Marshall Meyer

  • mmeyer35@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  Psychoanalysis, especially the Ljubljana Lacanian School and transcendental materialism; television and film; Marx; German idealism; new formalisms and aesthetic autonomy
Barthélémy Morin

Barthélémy Morin

  • Research Interests:  19th and 20th century European literatures, WWI literature, reader-response theories, ethical criticism (F. Leichter-Flack), aesthetics (Rancière), theory and history of the novel (Pavel), narratology (Genette)

Carter Salis (he/him/his)

  • csalis1@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  Philosophies of Community (Aesthetic, Moral, Political); Continental Philosophy; 20th century Anglophone Literatures; Aesthetics of Visual and Performing Arts; Philosophies of Religion (Mysticism, Confession, Absolution); Ludology
Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein

Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein

  • Research Interests:  intersections of literature and philosophy (aesthetics, phenomenology, idealism, pragmatism); lyric theory, poetics; 20th- and 21st-century poetry; avant-gardes, history of experimental literature; critical theory; film; questions of method
Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor

  • ctayl115@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  Media theory and history; animation and new media; Japanese cinema and literature; comparative film theory; philosophies of technology; history, philosophy, and aesthetics of artificial life
Eleni Theodoropoulos

Eleni Theodoropoulos

  • ctheodo2@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  the essay; the modernist novel; genre theory and hybrid literary forms (e.g., essayistic fiction, narrative polyphony, the lyric plural I); comparative modernisms (esp. English, French, and Greek); translation
Siyu Xie

Siyu Xie

  • sxie18@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  Ecocriticism, botany and vegetality in literature and theory, pre-modern natural history, Chinese poetics