{"id":11,"date":"2012-04-07T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T19:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nilsfrederickschott.wordpress.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:21:41","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilsfschott.com\/index.php\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education<\/h2>\n

Ph.D. in Humanities, Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, 2010
\nField examinations<\/em>: The Enlightenment (supervised by Prof. David Bell); M.A. in German (supervised by Prof. R\u00fcdiger Campe); The Philosophy of Time (supervised by Prof. Hent de Vries)
\nDissertation<\/em>: \u201cThe Conversion of Knowledge\u2014Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Catechisms\u201d; dissertation committee: Prof. Hent de Vries (advisor), Prof. R\u00fcdiger Campe (second advisor), Prof. Eckart F\u00f6rster, Prof. Paola Marrati, Prof. John Marshall (chair)<\/p>\n

M.A. in German, Johns Hopkins University, 2005
\nExaminations<\/em> in Aesthetics; Theory of Literary Criticism; Baroque Drama<\/p>\n

B.A. summa cum laude<\/em> in Comparative Literature and European Cultural Studies & Philosophy, The American University of Paris, 2002<\/p>\n

Employment<\/h2>\n

1999 \u2013 Freelance translator and editor<\/p>\n

2017\u20132024\u00a0 Lecturer, Euro-American Program, Coll\u00e8ge universitaire de SciencesPo, Reims<\/p>\n

Fall 2018: Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris<\/p>\n

2013\u20132017: Lecturer in Literature, Paris Program of Trinity College (Hartford, CT)<\/p>\n

2011\u20132018 : James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

2012: Postdoctoral Researcher in German Studies, Afdeling Duitse Taal en Cultuur, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen<\/p>\n

2012: International Research Fellow\/Visiting Researcher, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/p>\n

2011\u20132012: Consultant to the Humanities Advisory Council, John E. Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo<\/p>\n

Spring 2011: Lecturer, Program for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality\/Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

Fall 2010: Junior Lecturer, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

Fall 2009 \u2013 Spring 2010: Instructor, Expository Writing Program, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009: Graduate Instructor, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

2003 \u2013 2005, Spring 2008: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

Spring 2002: Administrative Assistant, Dean\u2019s Office, The American University of Paris<\/p>\n

Publications<\/h2>\n

Co-edited Volumes<\/b><\/h3>\n

Schott, Nils F., and Alexandre Lefebvre, eds., Freedom: Lectures at the Coll\u00e8ge de France, 1904\u20131905<\/em> by Henri Bergson (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).<\/p>\n

Lefebvre, Alexandre, and Nils F. Schott, eds., Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays<\/em><\/a> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
\nReviews\u00a0<\/em>by John R. Bagby<\/a>,\u00a0Metascience<\/em>, 17 November 2021; by Heath Massey<\/a>, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<\/em>, 12 June 2020; and by Mathilde Tahar<\/a>, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Amis de Bergson<\/em>, 8 April 2020.<\/p>\n

Lefebvre, Alexandre, and Nils F. Schott, eds., Henri Bergson<\/em><\/a> by Vladimir Jank\u00e9l\u00e9vitch, trans. Nils F. Schott (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).
\nReviews<\/em> by Giuseppe Bianco<\/a>, H-France Review <\/em>16, no. 113 (July 2016); by Nicolas de Warren<\/a>, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<\/em>, 9 August 2016; and by Paul Atkinson<\/a>, Symploke<\/em> 27, no. 1\u20132 (2019): 516\u201318<\/p>\n

de Vries, Hent, and Nils F. Schott, eds.,\u00a0Love and Forgiveness For a More Just World<\/em> <\/a>(Columbia University Press, 2015).
\nReviews<\/em> by Jeffrey Hanson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<\/em>, 13 May 2016, and by Andrew Fitz-Gibbon<\/a>, Essays in Philosophy<\/em> 17, no. 2, art. 8.<\/p>\n

Book Chapters<\/h3>\n
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\u201cClosed and Open Societies,\u201d co-written with Alexandre Lefebvre, in Mark Sinclair and Yaron Wolf, eds., The Bergsonian Mind<\/a><\/em>, 251\u201363 (London: Routledge, 2022).<\/p>\n

\u201cBergson\u2019s Philosophy of Religion,\u201d in Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott, eds., Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays<\/em><\/a>, 193\u2013210 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).<\/p>\n

\u201cIntuition, Interpellation, Insight\u2014Elements of a Theory of Conversion,\u201d in Asja Szafraniec and Ernst van den Hemel, eds., Words: Religious Language Matters<\/a>,<\/em> The Future of the Religious Past 4, 199\u2013210 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016).<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018A Mother to All\u2019: Love and the Institution of Community in Augustine,\u201d in Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott, eds., Love and Forgiveness For a More Just World<\/a>,<\/em> 88\u2013109 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).<\/p>\n

\u201cLove and the Stick\u2014The Worldly Aspects of the Call in the First Letter to the Corinthians,\u201d in Ward Blanton and Hent de Vries, eds., Paul and the<\/em> Philosophers<\/em><\/a>, 310\u201326 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013).<\/p>\n

Online Publication<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Bergson Concordance<\/em><\/a>, a concordance to the Alcan and PUF editions as well as selected English translations of Henri Bergson\u2019s works.<\/p>\n

Reviews<\/h3>\n

Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness<\/a><\/em> by Sarah Beckwith, MLN<\/em> 126, no. 5<\/a> (December 2011): 1137\u20131140.<\/p>\n

Reader\u2019s reports on articles and translation proposals for Stanford University Press, Chicago University Press, and borderlands e-journal.<\/p>\n

Books Translated<\/h3>\n
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Le Soldat, Judith, Voluntary Servitude: Masochism and Morality <\/em><\/a>(London: Routledge, 2025); translation of Freiwillige Knechtschaft: Masochismus und Moral<\/em>, ed. Monika Gsell (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2021).<\/p>\n

Alloa, Emmanuel, The Share of Perspective<\/a> <\/em>(London: Routledge, 2024); translation of Partages de la perspective<\/em> (Paris: Fayard, 2020).<\/p>\n

Schmidgen, Henning, Horn, or the Other Side of Media<\/em><\/a> (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022); translation of Henning Schmidgen, Horn oder die Gegenseite der Medien<\/em><\/a> (Berlin: Matthes and Seitz, 2018).<\/p>\n

Dalferth, Ingolf U., Malum: A Theological Hermeneutics of Evil<\/em><\/a> (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2022); translation of Malum: Theologische Hermeneutik des B\u00f6sen<\/em> (T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008).<\/p>\n

de Sutter, Laurent, Deleuze\u2019s Philosophy of Law<\/em><\/a> (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021); translation of Deleuze: La pratique du droit <\/em>(Paris: Michalon, 2009).<\/p>\n

Alloa, Emmanuel, Looking through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media<\/em><\/a> (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2021); translation of Das <\/em>durchscheinende Bild <\/em>(Zurich: diaphanes, 2011).<\/p>\n

H\u00f6ffe, Otfried, Critique of Freedom<\/a><\/em> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020); translation of Kritik der Freiheit<\/a><\/em> (Munich: Beck, 2015).<\/p>\n

Morgenthaler, Fritz, On the Dialectics of Psychoanalytic Practice<\/em><\/a>, ed. Dagmar Herzog (London: Routledge, 2020); a translation of Technik: Zur Dialektik der psychoanalytischen Praxis <\/em>(Frankfurt: Syndikat, 1978) and other essays.
\nReview <\/em>by Ian Parker<\/a>, Psychoanalysis and History<\/em> 22, no. 3 (2020): 382\u201384.<\/p>\n

Plessner, Helmuth, Political Anthropology<\/em><\/a>, with an introduction by Heike Delitz and Robert Seyfert and an epilog by Joachim Fischer (Evanston: Northwestern UP, in production); translation of Macht und menschliche Natur<\/a><\/em>, 1931 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1981).
\nReviews <\/em>by Carl Gelderloos<\/a>, Germanic Review <\/em>94, no. 4 (2019): 363\u201370; by Austin Harrington<\/a>, Theory, Culture & Society <\/em>(31 January 2020); and by Katja Haustein<\/a>, TLS<\/em>, 24 April 2020.<\/p>\n

H\u00f6rl, Erich, Sacred Channels: The Archaic Illusion of Communication<\/em><\/a>, with a preface by Jean-Luc Nancy (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018); translation of Die heiligen Kana\u0308le: U\u0308ber die archaische Illusion der Kommunikation<\/em><\/a> (Zurich: Diaphanes, 2005).
\nReview <\/em>by Megan Wiessner<\/a>, Radical Philosophy<\/em> 2, no. 6 (Winter 2019).
\nSacred Channels <\/em>was awarded the Leuphana Monograph Prize 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Avanessian, Armen, and Anke Hennig, Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain<\/em><\/a> (New York: Bloomsbury, 2017); translation of Metanoia: Spekulative Ontologie der Sprache<\/a><\/em> (Berlin: Merve, 2014).<\/p>\n

Avanessian, Armen, Overwrite: Ethics of Knowledge \/ Poetics of Existence<\/em><\/a> (Berlin: Sternberg, 2017); translation of \u00dcberschrift: Ethik des Wissens\u2014Poetik der Existenz<\/a> <\/em>(Berlin: Merve, 2014).
\nReview<\/em> by Emma Train<\/a>, E3W Review of Books <\/em>19 (Spring 2019).<\/p>\n

Avanessian, Armen, and Anke Hennig, Present Tense: A Poetics<\/em><\/a> (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015); translation of Pr\u00e4sens: Poetik eines Tempus<\/a> <\/em>(Zurich: Diaphanes, 2012).<\/p>\n

Avanessian, Armen, Irony and the Logic of Modernity<\/em><\/a> (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2015).<\/p>\n

Schmidgen, Henning, The Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time<\/em><\/a> (New York: Fordham UP, 2014); translation of Die Helmholtz-Kurven<\/a> <\/i>(Berlin: Merve, 2010).
\nReview <\/em>by Laura Otis<\/a>, Isis <\/em>107, no. 1 (March 2016): 191\u201392.<\/p>\n

Meyers, Todd, and Stefanos Geroulanos, Experimente im Individuum: Kurt Goldstein und die Frage des Organismus<\/a> <\/em>(Berlin: August Verlag, 2014).<\/p>\n

Avanessian, Armen, and Andreas T\u00f6pfer, Speculative Drawing: 2011\u20132014<\/a> <\/em>(Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014).<\/p>\n

Atlan, Henri, Fraud: The World of ona\u2019ah<\/a><\/em> (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2013); translation of De la fraude: le monde de l\u2019onaa<\/a><\/em> (Paris: Seuil, 2010).<\/p>\n

Delaporte, Fran\u00e7ois, Figures of Medicine<\/em><\/a> (New York: Fordham UP, 2013); translation of Figures de la m\u00e9decine <\/em><\/a>(Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2009).
\nReview <\/em>by Michael A. Osborne<\/a>, Isis <\/em>105, no. 2 (June 2014): 414.<\/p>\n

Wiesing, Lambert, Artificial Presence: Philosophical Studies in Image Theory<\/a><\/em> (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2009); translation of Artifizielle Pr\u00e4senz: Studien zur Philosophie des Bildes<\/a><\/em> (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2005).<\/p>\n

Articles and Chapters Translated<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From German to English<\/h4>\n
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H\u00f6rl, Erich, \u201cWhere There Is No World and No Epoch: Bernard Stiegler\u2019s Thinking of the Entropocene,\u201d in Bart Buseyne, Georgios Tsagdis, and Paul Willemarck, eds., Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future<\/em><\/a>, 107\u201324 (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).<\/p>\n

H\u00f6rl, Erich, \u201cA Thinking of Suspension: Melancholy and Politics Where There Is No Epoch,\u201d in Jean-Luc Nancy, ed., On Bernard Stiegler: Philosopher of Friendship<\/em><\/a>, 63\u201380 (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).<\/p>\n

Gsell, Monika, \u201cUncanny Drives: On Nightmares and Wish Fulfillment,\u201d in Vaia Tsolas and Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, eds., A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw<\/em><\/a>, 50\u201365 (London: Routledge, 2023).<\/p>\n

H\u00f6rl, Erich, \u201cThe Break In and With History: Nancy\u2019s Thinking of History in Light of the Disruptive Condition,\u201d in Susanna Lindberg, Artemy Magun, and Marita Tatari, eds., Thinking With\u2014Jean-Luc Nancy<\/em><\/a>, 185\u2013200 (Zurich: Diaphanes, 2023).<\/p>\n

Krau\u00df, Andrea, \u201cDistinguishing Understanding: Writing-scenes in Hannah Arendt,\u201d MLN<\/em> 136, no. 5<\/a> (December 2021): 1050\u201369. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/mln.2021.0079<\/p>\n

Schmidgen, Henning, \u201cSurface Media: McLuhan, the Bauhaus and the Tactile Values of TV<\/a>,\u201d Body & Society<\/em> (July 2021).<\/p>\n

H\u00f6rl, Erich, \u201cCritique of Environmentality: On the World-Wide Axiomatics of Environmentalitarian Time,\u201d in Erich H\u00f6rl, Nelly Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt, eds., Critique and the Digital<\/em><\/a>, 109\u201346 (Zurich: Diaphanes, 2021).<\/p>\n

H\u00f6rl, Erich, \u201cThe Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital<\/a>,\u201d Cultural Politics <\/em>14, no. 2 (July 2018): 153\u201373.<\/p>\n

H\u00f6rl, Erich, \u201cGeneral Ecology,\u201d in Rosi Braidotti, ed., Posthuman Glossary<\/em><\/a> (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018).<\/p>\n

H\u00f6rl, Erich, \u201cIntroduction to General Ecology: The Ecologization of Thinking,\u201d in Erich H\u00f6rl with James Burton, eds., General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm<\/a> <\/em>(London: Bloomsbury, 2017).<\/p>\n

H\u00f6rl, Erich, \u201cVariations on Klee\u2019s Cosmographic Method,\u201d Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain, Vapor, Ray<\/a><\/em>, ed. Katrin Klingan, Ashkan Sepahvand, Christoph Rosol, and Bernd M. Scherer, vol. 3, 180\u201392 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015).<\/p>\n

Avanessian, Armen, \u201cAnti-ironic Politics? The Fundamentalisms of S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard and Carl Schmitt,\u201d Kierkegaard and Political Theory: Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual<\/a><\/em>, ed. Armen Avanessian and Sophie Wennerscheid, 199\u2013220 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2014).<\/p>\n

Krau\u00df, Andrea, \u201c\u2018A Kind of Idyll\u2019: Epistemologies of Citation in Jean Paul,\u201d The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory<\/em> 89, no. 1<\/a> (2014): 76\u201393.<\/p>\n

Avanessian, Armen, \u201c(Co)Present Tense: Marcel Beyer Reads the Past,\u201d The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory<\/em> 88, no. 4<\/a> (2013): 363\u201374.<\/p>\n

Krau\u00df, Andrea, \u201c\u2018Rahmenschau:\u2019 Scenes of Observation in E. T. A. Hoffmann\u2019s Des Vetters Eckfenster<\/em>,\u201d Monatshefte<\/em> 105, no. 3<\/a> (Fall 2013): 407\u201325.<\/p>\n

Krau\u00df, Andrea, \u201cL\u2019effet d\u2019histoire<\/em>: Historiography in C. F. Meyer\u2019s Novella The Amulet<\/em>,\u201d MLN<\/em> 128, no. 3<\/a> (April 2013): 502\u201329.<\/p>\n

Schestag, Thomas, \u201cPhilology, Knowledge,\u201d Telos<\/em> 140<\/a> (Fall 2007): 28\u201344.<\/p>\n

From French to English<\/h4>\n
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Sommer, Christian, \u201cEuro-excentrism: Theology and\/or Political Anthropology of the \u2018Enemy\u2019 (from Schmitt to Plessner)<\/a>,\u201d Politeja<\/em> 18, no. 72 (2021): 51\u201363.<\/p>\n

Franc\u0327ois, Arnaud, \u201cBergson\u2019s Theory of Truth,\u201d in Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott, eds., Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays<\/em><\/a>, 13\u201326 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).<\/p>\n

Madelrieux, St\u00e9phane, \u201cBergson and Naturalism,\u201d in Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott, eds., Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays<\/em><\/a>, 48\u201366 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).<\/p>\n

Benoist, Jocelyn, Interview with Tarek Dika, Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology<\/em><\/a>, ed. Tarek R. Dika and W. Chris Hackett, 97\u2013116 (New York: Fordham UP,\u00a0 2016).<\/p>\n

Marion, Jean-Luc, \u201cUnpower: An Interview with Hugues Choplin,\u201d Love and Forgiveness For a More Just World<\/em><\/a>, ed. Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott, 36\u201342 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).<\/p>\n

Atlan, Henri, \u201cUnderdetermination of Theories by Facts,\u201d \u201cEctogenesis and Reproductive Cloning: Reasons For and Against,\u201d \u201cThe Spinoza Path,\u201d and \u201cPleasure, Pain, and the Levels of Ethics,\u201d Selected Writings<\/a><\/em>, ed. Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers (New York: Fordham UP, 2011).<\/p>\n

Stavrinaki, Maria, \u201cTotal Work of Art or Revolution: The Alternative of Expressionist Utopias and Merz,\u201d The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork: On Borders and Fragments<\/a><\/em>, ed. Anke Finger and Danielle Follett, 253\u201376 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2010).<\/p>\n

Michaud, Eric, \u201cThe Descent of the Image,\u201d rev. Eduardo Ralickas, Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture<\/a><\/em>, ed. Olivier Asselin, Johanne Lamoureux, and Christine Ross (Montr\u00e9al: McGill-Queen\u2019s UP, 2008): 355\u201379.<\/p>\n

Marrati, Paola, \u201cTime and Affects: Deleuze on Gender and Sexual Difference,\u201d Australian Journal for Feminist Studies<\/em> 21, no. 51<\/a> (November 2006): 313\u201325.<\/p>\n

Marrati, Paola, \u201cMysticism and the Foundation of the Open Society: Bergsonian Politics,\u201d Political Theologies<\/a>, ed. Hent de Vries (New York: Fordham UP, 2006): 591\u2013601; first published in ASCA Brief: ASCA Report 2004<\/em> (Amsterdam: ASCA, 2005): 75\u201390.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

From English to German<\/h4>\n

Moyar, Dean, \u201cDie Lehre vom Begriff. Zweyter Abschnitt. Die Objectivit\u00e4t,\u201d in Michael Quante and Nadine Mooren, eds., Kommentar zu Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik<\/a><\/em>, 559\u2013650 (Hamburg: Meiner, 2018).<\/p>\n

Richter, Gerhard, \u201cDas Kunstwerk in seinen formalen und genealogischen Bestimmungen: Benjamins \u2018k\u00fchle Stelle\u2019 zwischen Kant und Nietzsche,\u201d in Gerhard Richter, Karl Solibakke, and Bernd Witte, eds., Benjamins Grenzg\u00e4nge \/ Benjamin\u2019s Frontiers<\/a>, <\/em>Benjamin Bl\u00e4tter 6, 217\u201335 (W\u00fcrzburg: K\u00f6nigshausen & Neumann, 2013).<\/p>\n

Vries, Hent de, \u201cDerrida, Jacques\u201d and \u201cTheologie, politische,\u201d Handbuch der Politischen Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie<\/em><\/a>, ed. Stefan Gosepath, Wilfried Hinsch, and Beate R\u00f6ssler (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2008): 212\u201313 and 1326\u201330.<\/p>\n

Tsai, Joyce, \u201cL\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy und die Schicksalsfrage der Malerei,\u201d Form und Gesellschaft<\/em>, ed. Julia Friedrich, Nina G\u00fclicher and Lynette Roth,\u00a043\u201353 (Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 2008).<\/p>\n

Moyar, Dean, \u201cUrteil, Schluss und Handlung: Hegels logische \u00dcberg\u00e4nge im Argument zur Sittlichkeit,\u201d Hegel-Studien<\/em> 42<\/a>, ed. Walter Jaeschke and Ludwig Siep (Hamburg: Meiner, 2007): 51\u201379.<\/p>\n

Vries, Hent de, \u201cIn der Gewalt des theologisch-politischen Dilemmas. \u00dcber: Heinrich Meier: Das theologisch-politische Problem,\u201d Deutsche Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Philosophie<\/em> 52, no. 5<\/a> (2004): 823\u201329.<\/p>\n

Vries, Hent de, \u201cVom \u2018Ghost in the machine\u2019 zum \u2018geistigen Automaten\u2019: Philosophische Meditation bei Wittgenstein, Cavell und Levinas,\u201d Literatur als Philosophie \u2013 Philosophie als Literatur<\/a><\/em>, ed. Eva Horn, Christoph Menke, and Bettine Menke (Munich: Fink, 2005): 385\u2013412.<\/p>\n

From French to German<\/h4>\n

Gigante, Marcello, \u201cPhilodemos: \u00dcber die Freiheit der Rede,\u201d in Ru\u0308diger Campe and Malte Wessels, eds., Bella Parrhesia: Begriff und Figur der freien Rede in der Fr\u00fchen Neuzeit<\/em><\/a>, 365\u201387 (Freiburg: Rombach, 2018).<\/p>\n

Translations of catalog contributions<\/em><\/h4>\n

have appeared in, among others, Chi Wing Lo:<\/em> Journey of the Imagination <\/em>(Taipei, 2012); Simon Hanta\u00ef: Blancs<\/em> (New York, 2015); Impasse Ronsin <\/em>(New York, 2016); Robert Motherwell: The Art of Collage<\/em> (New York, 2016); Hamburg Maschine_revisited<\/em> (Hamburg, 2022); Threads of Power <\/em>(New York, 2022); Rosemarie Trockel <\/em>(Frankfurt, 2023); Sonia Delaunay: Living Art <\/em>(New York, 2024).<\/p>\n

Translations of lectures, lecture series, etc. (selection)<\/em><\/h4>\n

Reinhard Brandt, \u201cThe Doctrine of Ends as a Bridge Between Nature and Freedom,\u201d April 2008; Philippe B\u00fcttgen, \u201cThe Second Performance, or\u2014Religion,\u201d May 2017; Giovanni Careri, untitled series of three lectures and \u201cMichelangelo\u2019s Two Judgments,\u201d February 2006; Eckart F\u00f6rster, \u201cA Defense of Idealism,\u201d March 2014; Andrea Krau\u00df, \u201cDrawing Lines: Storm\u2019s Aesthetic Calculus,\u201d November 2012 add more recent ones<\/strong>; Paola Marrati, \u201cA Lost Everyday\u201d and \u201cLife and Event,\u201d April 2006; Eric Michaud, \u201cPreparation for Danger,\u201d March 2006, \u201cThe Many Lives of the New Man, 1914-1945,\u201d October 2015; Elisabeth Strowick, \u201cThe Medical Gaze: Death in the Clinic and in Modern Literature,\u201d October 2015; Hent de Vries, \u201cEreignis und Wunder,\u201d October 2011.<\/p>\n

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\u201cConversion and Practical Enlightenment: C. F. Bahrdt\u2019s Catechism of Natural Religion,\u201d \u201cConversion in the Eighteenth Century\u201d Seminar, German Studies Association Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference, Kansas City, 20 September 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Theory and Practice of Natural Religion,\u201d Seminar for the Summer School \u201cCommonalities and Differences,\u201d Thematic Network “Principles of Cultural Dynamics,” Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, July 21, 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Das kann doch jeder\u2019\u2014Herausforderungen wissenschaftlicher \u00dcbersetzert\u00e4tigkeit,\u201d Invited lecture, \u201c\u00dcbersetzen: Texte, Autoren und Medien\u201d Seminar, Afdeling Duitse taal en cultuur, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, December 18, 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cProduktion, Ideologie, Interpellation\u2014Strukturen des Marxismus Louis Althussers,\u201d Invited lecture, \u201cEinf\u00fchrung in den Strukturalismus\u201d Seminar, Peter-Szondi-Institut f\u00fcr Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, June 18, 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cFanon\u2019s Theoretical Theater,\u201d \u201cFanon, et apr\u00e8s?\u201d Conference, The American University of Paris, March 30-31, 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Enlightenment Catechism: C. F. Bahrdt and the Pedagogy of Natural Religion,\u201d Humanities Center Graduate Symposium, Johns Hopkins University, December 5, 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Theory and Practice of Perfection in Carl Friedrich Bahrdt,\u201d Konstanzer Meisterklasse 2011<\/em>, Exzellenzcluster 16 \u201cKulturelle Grundlagen von Integration,\u201d Universit\u00e4t Konstanz, July 25, 2011.<\/p>\n

Invited Response to Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Discussion of Between a Man and a Woman?<\/em>, Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University, March 2, 2011.<\/p>\n

Invited Responses to Johannes Pause, Daniel Schwartz and Josh Alvizu, \u201cEndlich lesen, endlich schreiben\u201d Conference, Johns Hopkins University, December 4, 2010.<\/p>\n

Invited Responses to \u00c9ric Fassin and Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, \u201cReligion\/Sexuality \u2013 Politics\/Affect\u201d Conference, Johns Hopkins University, September 20, 2009.<\/p>\n

Invited Response to Hent de Vries, Discussion of \u201cWhy Still \u2018Religion\u2019?,\u201d \u201cOn the Empirical\u201d Discussion Series, Johns Hopkins University, April 23, 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Paul and Augustine\u2019s Catechetics,\u201d Workshop of the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg \u201cLebensformen und Lebenswissen\u201d and the Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, February 29, 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Ein M\u00e4gdlein in eitel Spr\u00fcngen\u2019\u2014Happy Obedience in Luther\u2019s Catechisms,\u201d \u201cLimits of Intelligibility\u201d Conference, Johns Hopkins University, March 10, 2007.<\/p>\n

Teaching Experience<\/h2>\n

In the Euro-American Program of the Coll\u00e8ge universitaire de Sciences-Po<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cThe ABCs of Politics,\u201d lecture course (Fall 2022, Fall 2023)<\/p>\n

\u201cMarx\u2019s Critique of Inequality\u201d (Fall 2019\u2013Spring 2024)<\/p>\n

\u201cReading Marx\u201d (Fall 2018\u2013Spring 2019)<\/p>\n

\u201cPhilosophies of Life\u201d (Fall 2018\u2013Spring 2019)<\/p>\n

\u201cDiscipline & Fornication\u201d (Fall 2017)<\/p>\n

At The American University of Paris<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cWriting and Criticism: Just Revenge?\u201d (Fall 2018)<\/p>\n

In the Paris Program of Trinity College (Hartford, CT)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cA Cultural History of Paris Through Literature\u201d (Spring 2014\u2013Fall 2017)<\/p>\n

\u201cParis Migrations, Voluntary or Not\u201d (Fall 2013)<\/p>\n

\u201cDirected Studies: Modernism\u201d (Fall 2013)<\/p>\n

At The Johns Hopkins University<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cIntroduction to the Philosophy of Time\u201d (Humanities Center, cross-listed with Philosophy, Spring 2006 and Spring 2012)<\/p>\n

\u201cPhilosophies of Ecology,\u201d co-taught with Prof. Paola Marrati (Humanities Center)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Poetics and Politics of Sex\u201d (Women, Gender & Sexuality, cross-listed with the Humanities Center and English, Spring 2011)<\/p>\n

\u201cElements of Enlightenment\u201d (Expository Writing Program, Fall 2009 and Spring 2010)<\/p>\n

\u201cDiscipline and Fornication\u201d (Women, Gender & Sexuality, cross-listed with Anthropology and the Humanities Center, Spring 2009)<\/p>\n

\u201cPaul of Tarsus\u201d (Jewish Studies, cross-listed with the Humanities Center, Fall 2008)<\/p>\n

\u201cThinking Living Time\u201d (Humanities Center, cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Spring 2007)<\/p>\n

Teaching Assistantships at Johns Hopkins<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Fall 2010\u2013Spring 2011: Humanities Center Honors Seminar, Profs. Yi-Ping Ong and Elizabeth Patton, Humanities Center<\/p>\n

Fall 2010: \u201cShakespeare Then and Now,\u201d Prof. Richard Halpern, Department of English<\/p>\n

Spring 2008: \u201cCollecting, Eating, Writing, Reading, Burning\u2014Books,\u201d Prof. Thomas Schestag, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n

Fall 2005: \u201cWhat Makes Us Desire?\u201d Prof. Paola Marrati, Humanities Center<\/p>\n

Spring 2005: \u201cThe Ghost & Machine,\u201d Prof. Hent de Vries, Humanities Center<\/p>\n

Fall 2004: \u201cLiteratures of Time,\u201d Prof. Hent de Vries, Humanities Center<\/p>\n

Spring 2004: \u201cThe Dramatic Event,\u201d Prof. Richard Macksey, Humanities Center<\/p>\n

Fall 2003: \u201cHolocaust Testimonies,\u201d Prof. Ruth Leys, Humanities Center<\/p>\n

Fellowships & Awards (selection)<\/h2>\n

2011\u20132018 Inaugural James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center<\/p>\n

2014: DAAD Global Humanities Junior Research and Teaching Stay, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/p>\n

2012: International Research Fellowship, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/p>\n

2011: Fellow, Konstanzer Meisterklasse 2011<\/em>, Exzellenzcluster 16 \u201cKulturelle Grundlagen von Integration,\u201d Universit\u00e4t Konstanz<\/p>\n

2011 and 2012: Finalist, University of Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship<\/p>\n

2010 and 2011: Nominee, ACLS New Faculty Fellowship<\/p>\n

2010 and 2011: Alternate Candidate, Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship<\/p>\n

2010\u20132011: James M. Motley Scholarship Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

2009\u20132010: Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Endowment Trust Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

2008\u20132009: David Robinson Teaching Fund Fellowship, Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

2008: Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program Prize Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

2006: J. Brien Key Graduate Student Assistance Fund Award, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

2002-2003, Fall 2006 and Fall 2007: Humanities Center Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

2002: Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, Departmental Honors in European Cultural Studies and Philosophy and in Comparative Literature, The American University of Paris<\/p>\n

2002: Sin-ming Shaw Award for Academic Excellence, The American University of Paris<\/p>\n

2000 and 2001: Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement and Service to the AUP Community<\/p>\n

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