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Graduate Students

 

Gülru Çakmak
Interests: the history of the avant-garde in the context of social change and political intervention, with specific focus on 19th century French art and early Soviet avant-garde.
E-mail:gulru.cakmak@jhu.edu

 

 

Thomas A. Crain
Director, BSIS and Odyssey Programs, SPSBE
Shaffer 201
Interests: literature and philosophy; ethical and epistemological systems; origins and evolutions; truth and lies; self and other; Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Hardy, Proust, Stevens, Pound.
E-mail:tcrain@jhu.edu

 

 

Thomas Dechand
Interests: American pragmatism (C. S. Peirce), 19-20th century American Intellectual History, Melville, James, Stevens, Pynchon.
E-mail:dechand@jhu.edu

 

Benjamin DeForest
Interests: the history of western scholarly practices, especially since the advent of the university; intellectual disciplinarity as a philosophical problem; the New German Cinema
E-mail:
deforest@jhu.edu

 

Tarek Dika
E-mail:tdika@jhu.edu

 

 

Danielle Dubois
Interests: questions of self-knowledge and education, the evolution of the meaning of error and its various forms.
E-mail:danielle.dubois@jhu.edu

 

 

John Duda
Interests: intersections of science and politics in the 19th-21st centuries.
E-mail:john@manifestor.org

 

 

Stefanos Geroulanos
Interests: Modern European Intellectual History (esp. French and German); philosophical anthropology and political theology; film and film theory.
E-mail:stefanos.geroulanos@jhu.edu

 

 

Jeroen Gerrits
Interests: notions of memory, perception, thinking, and the unthought in late 19th and 20th century theory, literature, photography and (avant-garde) film.
E-mail:jeroengerrits@jhu.edu

 

 

Daniela Ginsburg
Interests:anthropology, philosophy, concepts of work.
E-mail:daniela.ginsburg@jhu.edu

 

 

Thomas Gottbreht
E-mail:gottbreht@hotmail.com

 

 

Jie Guo
Interests: the history of sexuality, queer theory, gender theory, Chinese cinema, and Chinese literature from the late sixteenth through twentieth centuries.
E-mail:guojie@jhu.edu

 

 

Kate Khatib
Interests: theories of revolt and resistance literature of the middle twentieth century, with a special emphasis on French and American Surrealism, and American cultural theory between the New Deal and the New Left.
E-mail:kate@manifestsor.org

Nicole Krysinski
E-mail: nicolejk@mac.com

 

 

Jane Lesnick
E-mail:jlesnick@jhu.edu

 

 

Anh Nguyen
Interests: German and English literature of the 17th and 18th centuries.
E-mail:anguyen@jhu.edu

 

 

Rebbeca Pekron
Interests: painting and poetry of 19th century France , with a particular emphasis on the ways in which notions of "surface" emerge in painting, poetry, and literature.
E-mail:rpekron1@jhu.edu

 

 

John Polewach
E-mail: jpolewach@jhu.edu

 

 

Nils F. Schott
Interests: philosophy and literature of time, varieties of enlightenment, literary theory, continental philosophy.
E-mail:n.schott@jhu.edu

 

 

Martin Shuster
Interests: philosophy of religion, Jewish thought, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and genocide studies.
E-mail:vanity@jhu.edu

 

 

Joyce Tsai
Interests: Art History, History of Photography, Aesthetic Philosophy, Critical Theory.
E-mail:jtsai5@jhu.edu

 

 

Molly Warnock
Interests: 19th and 20th Century European, American, and Latin American art, literature, and philosophy, with a special emphasis on developments since 1945.
E-mail:mollyjeanne@jhu.edu

 

 

Cara Weber
Interests: 19th & early 20th century British literature, philosophy, feminism.
E-mail:caraweber@hotmail.com

 

 

 

Visiting Students

 

 

 

Sophi Buhnik (September-January)
E-mail: sophie.buhnik@ens.fr

Florent Bodman
(January-May)
E-mail: florent.de.bodman@ens.fr