Comparative Literature

Peter Szendy joins the faculty as New Humanities Initiative Scholar

Peter Szendy joins the faculty as the David Herlihy Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Brown University. He has taught at the University of Paris Nanterre, the University of Strasbourg, Princeton University, and NYU. Among his recently published works in English: All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage (Fordham University Press, 2016); Phantom Limbs: On Musical Bodies (Fordham University Press, 2015); Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World (Fordham University Press, 2015); Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials: Cosmopolitical Philosofictions (Fordham University Press, 2013). Forthcoming: Le Supermarché du visible: essai d’iconomie (Éditions de Minuit, 2017).