Comparative Literature

Based at the Department of Comparative Literature, I pursue Brown's Integrative Studies PhD in Philosophy, Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media. Before coming to Brown, I did my BA and MA, after visiting New York University, at Humboldt University of Berlin, with theses on Heidegger and technology and on Hegel and economy. My current research is positioned at the intersection of philosophy and other humanities. With a focus on classical German philosophy around 1800, especially Hegel and in particular the Science of Logic, my interests range from ancient Greek (Aristotle, Plato, atomism, Parmenides) to 20th century and contemporary French thought (including Badiou and Malabou). Systematically I am interested in the challenges posed to philosophy by poetry (Hölderlin, tragedy) as well as other forms and media of art, by psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan), by politics (Marx) and by formalization (mathematical logic, set theory).