Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Marc Redfield is Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of German. He taught at the Université de Genève, Switzerland, for four years and Claremont Graduate University for 20 years before moving to Brown in 2010. He studies British, American, French, and German literature and literary theory of the 18th through 20th centuries, with a particular focus on romanticism and on intersections of literature and philosophy. He is the author of Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (Cornell University Press, 1996); The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism (Stanford University Press, 2003); The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror (Fordham University Press, 2009); Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America (Fordham University Press, 2015), and Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan (Fordham University Press, 2020). He co-edited High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (University of California Press, 2002), edited Legacies of Paul de Man (Fordham University Press, 2007), co-edited Points of Departure: Samuel Weber Between Spectrality and Reading (Northwestern University Press, 2016), and has guest-edited special issues of the journals Diacritics, Romantic Praxis, and The Wordsworth Circle. He is currently writing about Kant, Kafka, Celan, and Lispector.