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Lucy Bergeret
MA, University of Paris 1 Sorbonne
Research Interests: Relations between ethics and literature and the history of psychology and psychoanalysis; links between hypnosis and literary texts in 19th-century French literature and the contemporary anglophone novel
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Samantha Carmel
Research Interests: Critique of culture and metaphysics in Nietzsche and Heidegger, and its heritage in German Romanticism (Herder) and Counter-Enlightenment philosophy and literature (Hamann, Spengler, Jünger, Celine...); ontology of technology; aesthetics and phenomenology
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Loumia Ferhat
Research Interests: Medieval and modern philosophy, especially the questions of novelty and creation
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Tamara Fröhler
Visiting Student, PhD Candidate, University of Munich (LMU)
Research Interests: The metaphorics of tragedy and the tragic, particularly in modernist and avant-garde drama; contemporary théâtre engagé; the intersection of psychoanalysis and comic theory; Modernist boulevard theater and the poetics of hair; queer and feminist theory
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Ben Gillespie
Research Interests: Poetry and the visual arts in the 19th and 20th centuries; print culture, manuscript studies, and critical bibliography; originality and sincerity; conceptions of modernism and the avant-garde; Mina Loy and Emily Dickinson
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Scott Gottbreht
Research Interests: Interdisciplinary intersection of literature, philosophy, and political theory; theories of empowerment, violence, and oppression
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Alexander Host
Research Interests: Ideas about normativity and aesthetics, particularly as they appear in German philosophy (primarily Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche) and post-Wittgensteinian philosophy (primarily Cavell)
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Ezgi Ince
Research Interests: Intersectional and intermedial links between text, image, and music; sociology of art and music; aesthetics; modernism and avant-garde; poetry and the visual arts in the 20th and 21st centuries; collective memory and trauma writing; American popular culture
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Léa Jouannais-Weiler
MA student in "Theory of Literature" at ENS Paris, visiting graduate student at JHU
Research Interests: My main area of interest is the interrelation between literature, philosophy of science and religion (especially judaism). I am currently focusing on the myth of the Golem in the light of cybernetics, genetics and the theory of information, while my previous work focused on the influence of the development of quantum physics on literature, especially in Max Frisch's work.
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Jacob Levi
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century European philosophy, focusing on the relationship between language and metaphysics; phenomenological tradition (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty); 20th century German-Jewish thinkers (Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Scholem); the reception of Heidegger in France; fin-de-siècle French literature and its philosophical undercurrents
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Tage Tayfun Einar Luxembourgeus
Visiting Student, PhD Candidate, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Research Interests: Transboundary cinema; nation-migration-identity-cinema-representation; independent cinema and alternative filmmaking practises; cinematographic representations of minorities and marginalised groups; relation between cinema-ideology-propaganda; cinemas of the non-existing countries, particularly the cinemas of Yugoslavia and Soviet Union; cinema in the Ottoman Empire; New Wave in Turkey’s cinema; Post-revolution Iranian cinema, particularly the cinemas of Abbas Kiarostami, Asghar Farhadi, and Jafar Panahi; Cinemas of Palestine, Sweden, Iceland, and Cuba; Soviet propaganda films; Third cinema movement.
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Michael McCreary
Research Interests: Dialectical relationships between the traditional and the "modern" and between the natural and the conventional, especially as brought out by political economy as inspired by Marx, educational theory as pursued by Freire, existentialist literature as anticipated by Dostoevsky, and everyday philosophy as imagined by Wittgenstein and Cavell
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Paula Mendes
Research Interests: Time and timelessness as key interdisciplinary concepts, gender studies, philosophy of music, and Brazilian literature and criticism
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Harel Newman
Research Interests: Love and sexuality, the body, alterity, religiosity, and identity; queer, Jewish, and disabled figures within the Western canon(s) of the long 20th century; queer, Jewish, and disabled studies generally; aesthetics; existentialism; postmodern theology; Classical Greek; and philosophies of language and science, particular Greek and existential
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Hale Sirin
Research Interests: 19- and 20-century European literature, modernism, 19-century Ottoman intellectual history, ethics, secularism
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Benjamin Stein
Research Interests: Modernist novel; modernist aesthetics; comparative modernisms; ordinary language philosophy, particularly concerning failures of communication and language in interwar Anglo-American and Soviet traditions; question of the subject and community in modernist literature
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Christopher Taylor
Research Interests: Intersection of philosophical aesthetics, film and media studies, and political theory, particularly the relationship between the evolution of artistic media, theories of thought and action, and practices of spectatorship during the interwar and post-war periods; Brechtian theatre; French, German, and Japanese cinema; comparative film theory; the politics of dramatic and cinematic forms
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Maddie Wells
Research Interests: Relationship between political economy, language, and aesthetics under finance capitalism; Marx’s theory of value; Italian autonomism; the history of affective labor and the gig economy; the political dimensions of new materialism
