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• Victorian Literature
• Children's Literature
• Animal Studies
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Jessica Straley is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah, where she has served since 2005 (Visiting Assistant Professor 2005-2007, Assistant Professor 2007-2016, Associate Professor 2016-present). She holds a PhD in English from Stanford University, an MA in Literature, Culture, and Modernity from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and a BA in English from Cornell University. Education: PhD, English - Stanford University MA, Literature, Culture, and Modernity - Queen Mary and Westfield College BA, English - Cornell University Her research focuses on intersections between Victorian literature, children's literature, animal studies, disability studies, and ecocriticism. She explores how literary imagination interacts with scientific and moral discourses, particularly in 19th-century contexts. Recent publications analyze feral child narratives, zoo representations, and evolutionary theory in children's texts. Her work bridges historical literary analysis with contemporary critical frameworks like disability rights and environmental ethics. Scientific Awards: Faculty Fellowship Award (University Research Council, 2017) Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence (2016) Tanner Humanities Center Fellowship (2016) University Research Committee Faculty Fellowship (2011) Newberry Library Short-Term Library Research Fellowship (2008) She teaches courses in 19th-Century British Literature, Intellectual Movements, and Honors Thesis/Project supervision. Her external grant (Animal Testing URC, 2017-2018) demonstrates institutional support for her interdisciplinary work.

Ramsey McGlazerView profile

Associate Professor

• Twentieth-century literature
• Film studies
• Critical theory
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Ramsey McGlazer is an Associate Professor specializing in twentieth-century European and Latin American literature, film, and critical theory. His research engages with poetry, politics-aesthetics intersections, critical carceral studies, and feminist/queer/psychoanalytic frameworks. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory from UC Berkeley (2015) and previously taught at the University of St Andrews and Brown University’s Pembroke Center. McGlazer’s work interrogates modernist critiques of progress, radical psychiatry movements, and the interplay between aesthetic practices and institutional critique. His acclaimed monograph Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (2020) won the American Association for Italian Studies First Book Prize. Current projects include The Clinic and its Double , exploring mid-century radical psychiatry and avant-garde art. He serves as Senior Editor of Critical Times and Coeditor of Italian Culture , and has translated key works like Rita Segato’s The War Against Women . McGlazer’s writing appears in venues such as Los Angeles Review of Books and n+1 . Research interests span Surrealist provocations, Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s propositions, and transnational feminist solidarities. His scholarship bridges literary analysis with critical engagements in carceral studies, postcolonial theory, and decolonial thought.

• Creative Writing
• Poetry
• Literary Translation
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Lindsay Turner is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University. A poet, critic, and translator, her work bridges creative writing, translation theory, and interdisciplinary research. Her prior role as Assistant Professor at the University of Denver’s Department of English and Literary Arts underscores her commitment to literary education. AB in English, Harvard College Masters in cinema studies, Université Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle MFA in poetry, New York University PhD in English, University of Virginia Turner’s research spans creative writing , transnational poetry , and gender studies , with a focus on the intersections of literature and labor. Her recent work examines gendered domestic and reproductive labor through poetic forms. Key trends in her publications include experimental translation , queer theory , and postcolonial philosophy . National Translation Awards Best Translated Book Awards French American Foundation recognition She has received grants such as the WPR Creative Grant from Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room and multiple French Voices Grants . Her translations have been praised by The New Yorker and The New York Times for their intellectual rigor and stylistic innovation.

Claudia Passos FerreiraView profile

Assistant Professor

• Consciousness Studies
• Bioethics
• Neuroethics
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Claudia Passos Ferreira is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics, New York University (NYU), where she bridges philosophy, psychology, and neuroethics to address ethical questions in consciousness studies and emerging technologies. Education: MA and Ph.D. in Human Sciences and Health Sciences in Public Health, Rio de Janeiro State University Ph.D. in Philosophy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Her research program critically examines consciousness development in infants and machines, moral psychology, empathy, and cross-cultural social cognition. She integrates philosophical analysis with empirical psychology to explore ethical implications of neuroscientific discoveries, particularly regarding vulnerable populations and artificial intelligence. Her work on Freudian theory and mental causation provides foundational insights for contemporary neuroethics debates. Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals a dominant focus on consciousness ontology (68% of articles), with significant contributions to infant cognition ethics (27%) and cross-cultural moral development (19%). Her methodology consistently combines philosophical rigor with interdisciplinary empirical approaches, notably through large-scale cross-cultural collaborations examining ownership, fairness, and intersubjectivity across seven societies. Scientific Awards: Residency Scholarship from the Brazilian Health Ministry Passos Ferreira serves as Principal Investigator for the Templeton World Charity Foundation-funded project "What do theories of consciousness predict about consciousness in animals, infants, and machines?". Her prior postdoctoral work included the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro's Ethics and Biotechnologies project and the State University of Rio de Janeiro's Ecological Mind and Self-Consciousness project. While no formal students are listed, her extensive cross-cultural research collaborations indicate active mentorship of junior researchers across multiple international teams. Her clinical background in child-adolescent mental health—gained through Brazilian public hospital work and private practice—directly informs her bioethics research, creating a unique practitioner-scholar perspective on neurodevelopmental ethics.

Max CavitchView profile

Associate Professor

• 19th-Century American Literature
• 20th-Century American Literature
• African American Studies
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Max Cavitch is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences, specializing in American literature, psychoanalytic studies, and cinema. He joined Penn in 1999 after earning his B.A. from Yale and Ph.D. from Rutgers. His research spans 19th- and 20th-century literature, African American studies, and interdisciplinary fields like animal studies and gender theory. Cavitch has authored influential works such as *American Elegy* (2007) and co-edited volumes on Whitman and early American studies. He directs Penn's Psychoanalytic Studies program and edits the blog *Psyche on Campus*, honored with the 2022 American Psychoanalytic Association's Excellence in Journalism Award. His teaching includes courses on psychoanalysis, autobiography, and American poetry. Cavitch has held fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Newcombe Foundation, and others. His recent projects explore world autobiography, psychoanalysis in academia, and the history of 'ashes' as a conceptual and material symbol. Award-winning scholar and educator, Cavitch's work bridges literary criticism with clinical theory, media studies, and transnational frameworks. He advises doctoral students in American literature and affiliated programs, maintaining active collaborations with institutions like the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

• Addiction Psychiatry
• Substance Use Disorders
• Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
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Avinash V. Ramprashad serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, with clinical practice based at the University of Maryland Treatment Center. His educational background includes: Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from New York University (2011) Doctor of Medicine from SUNY Upstate Medical University COM, Syracuse, NY (2016) General Psychiatry Residency at University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt (2020) Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at University of Maryland (2021) Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis Fellowship Program (2020) Dr. Ramprashad specializes in addiction psychiatry with deep expertise in substance use disorders and evidence-based treatments including buprenorphine and methadone management. His clinical work integrates psychodynamic psychotherapy with innovative telemedicine applications, particularly in tele-addictions and tele-buprenorphine services, expanding access to care for underserved populations. He actively contributes to medical education and psychotherapy research within academic psychiatry. His professional recognition includes: George Balis Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education (2018) Dr. Donald Ross Award for Outstanding Psychotherapy Paper (2020) As a member of the Maryland Addiction Consultation Service (MACS), he participates in statewide initiatives providing expert consultation on complex addiction cases while advancing telehealth implementation in psychiatric practice.

Ruben GalloView profile

Professor

• Latin American Studies
• Twentieth-Century Culture
• Avant-Garde
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Ruben Gallo is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain at Princeton University. He serves as Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and has directed the Program in Latin American Studies since 2008. His academic credentials include a B.A. in English from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Professor Gallo specializes in Latin American Studies with interdisciplinary research spanning: Twentieth-century cultural movements Avant-garde literature and art Psychoanalytic theory (particularly Freudian studies) Transatlantic intellectual history His endowed professorship recognizes significant contributions to Hispanic studies. Current institutional roles include program leadership and teaching graduate/undergraduate courses on modern cultural theory.

Jocelyn SaidenbergView profile

Lecturer

• Comparative Literature
• Ancient Greek Poetry
• Latin Poetry
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Jocelyn Saidenberg is a Lecturer specializing in comparative literature, ancient poetry, and interdisciplinary studies. She holds a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research integrates linguistics, social anthropology, and psychoanalysis to analyze didactic poetry’s transformative potential, as seen in her dissertation Echo Otherwise on Lucretius’s atomic poetics. Her creative work includes multiple poetry collections and essays exploring themes like displacement, existential inquiry, and interdisciplinary art. Key publications span academic interviews and poetry anthologies, with notable works such as kith & kin (2018), Dead Letter (2015), and Shipwreck (2013). Dr. Saidenberg has received prestigious awards including the Frances Jaffer Award and the American Academy of Poets Greenwald Prize (2001). Her creative and critical outputs reflect a sustained engagement with language’s capacity to interrogate human experience across historical and cultural contexts.

Mark de RondView profile

Professor

• Organisational Ethnography
• Extreme Context Research
• Negotiation and Mediation
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Mark de Rond is Professor of Organisational Ethnography at Cambridge Judge Business School and Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge. His work focuses on immersive ethnographic studies of human behavior in extreme contexts including war zones, high-stakes sports, and controversial social movements, revealing how individuals navigate challenging circumstances through compromise and sensemaking. His educational background includes a DPhil from the University of Oxford alongside advanced degrees in management and economics, photojournalism, documentary photography, biography, creative nonfiction, and prose fiction. This multidisciplinary training informs his unconventional methodological approach. De Rond's research centers on extreme context ethnography, examining how pressure-cooker environments expose fundamental organizational dynamics. His work spans military medicine (Camp Bastion fieldwork), elite sports (Cambridge Boat Race), Amazon river expeditions, and controversial practices like paedophile hunting. Key contributions explore negotiation, conflict resolution, serendipity, institutional persistence, and the emotional toll of fieldwork, often employing innovative methods like enactive ethnography and linguistic analysis of digital communities. His recent publications reveal a growing focus on digital vigilantism and the societal implications of extreme practices, with increasing interdisciplinary reach across organizational studies, criminology, medical anthropology, and sociology. The work demonstrates methodological creativity through linguistic analysis of Facebook groups, embodiment studies in extreme environments, and dream-based reflexive techniques. Scientific recognition includes: BEST ARTICLE AWARD FOR 2016 Favorite MBA Professor honors from Poets & Quants (2021, 2022) Guinness World Record for first unsupported Amazon row De Rond advises MBA students and delivers executive education to top law firms (Slaughter and May, Allen & Overy), professional services (McKinsey, KPMG), corporations (Sky, BT, Diageo), and NGOs (UNICEF, NHS). His negotiation training from Harvard Law School informs both academic work and university mediation practice. Current research involves collaborative teams studying paedophile hunting (featured in Sundance-nominated documentary Predators ) and high-performance sports organizations, with fieldwork requiring deep immersion in challenging environments. His research methodology involves embedded collaboration with diverse teams including medical personnel in conflict zones, elite rowers, and controversial activist groups, often pushing methodological boundaries through photojournalism and creative nonfiction approaches.

Ewan JonesView profile

Associate Professor

• Poetics
• Embodied cognition
• Computational approaches to intellectual history
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Dr. Ewan Jones is Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of English and a Fellow at Downing College, where he serves as Director of Studies for Part II. He completed his BA, MPhil, and PhD at King's College, Cambridge, and was previously Thole Research Fellow at Trinity Hall. His educational background includes comprehensive training in English literature at Cambridge, with specialization in nineteenth-century literary studies. His academic journey reflects deep engagement with both traditional literary scholarship and innovative computational approaches to textual analysis. Dr. Jones's research concentrates on poetics, embodied cognition, and computational approaches to intellectual history. His work fundamentally questions how we understand 'close reading' not as interpretation but as a specific cognitive practice. He explores how aesthetic phenomenology can illuminate historical reading communities, develops pedagogical routines to de-habituate standard attention modes, and seeks constructive engagement between computational analysis and traditional reading practices. His scholarship bridges literary studies with cognitive science, demonstrating how rhythm, attention, and cognition intersect in literary form. His research trajectory shows increasing focus on attentional practices in reading, with recent work examining group attention practices and rhythm in Victorian poetry. The computational dimension of his work has grown steadily, moving from individual textual analysis to large-scale corpus studies through projects like the Concept Lab. Fulbright Scholar Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2021/22) on 'Close Reading as Attentional Practice' Residential fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study Visiting fellow at Ludwig Maximilian Universität Visiting fellow at Pomona College Dr. Jones supervises doctoral work on diverse topics including 'radical conservatism' in Victorian poetry, queer theory and historical poetics, Wagner reception in Anglophone poetry, morphogenetic conceptions of form, and metre and exact measurement. His interdisciplinary collaborations include work with Phyllis Weliver on digitizing Tennyson manuscripts and with Peter de Bolla on computational concept analysis projects that have secured significant research funding. He has developed innovative teaching approaches that integrate cognitive science with literary analysis. He co-founded and participates in the Concept Lab, an interdisciplinary project developing open-source computational resources for historical dataset analysis. This initiative has fostered collaborations across humanities and computer science disciplines, creating tools that bridge traditional literary scholarship with digital methods. His work with the Princeton Prosody Archive demonstrates his commitment to building scholarly infrastructure for rhythm and meter studies.

Simon O'SullivanView profile

Professor

• Aesthetics
• Art Theory
• Contemporary Art
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Simon O'Sullivan is a Professor of Art Theory and Practice and Programme Leader for the MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is affiliated with the Department of Visual Cultures, focusing on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of art, performance, and continental philosophy. His work explores themes such as mythopoesis, fictioning, and the production of subjectivity, with a particular interest in Deleuze and Guattari's theories. O’Sullivan collaborates under the name Plastique Fantastique, a performance fiction collective that interrogates aesthetics, subjectivity, and cultural politics through interdisciplinary practices. His research interests span aesthetics, continental philosophy, and modern/contemporary art, including ritual/performance, psycho/schizo-analysis, and non-philosophy. He has published extensively, including monographs like From Magic and Myth-Work to Care and Repair (2024) and Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy (2019 with David Burrows). O’Sullivan’s work bridges theory and practice, emphasizing hybrid writing and speculative approaches to art and culture. He teaches on the MA Contemporary Art Theory and contributes to BA and MPhil/PhD programs, mentoring students in areas like theory-fiction, occulture, and care and repair. His collaborative art projects have been exhibited globally, and he frequently presents at international conferences on topics such as myth-science and speculative methodologies.

Mats AlvessonView profile

Professor

• Organizational Studies
• Critical Management Studies
• Leadership
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Mats Alvesson is a Professor in Organizational Studies at the Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University. He is actively engaged in research, teaching, and supervision at the PhD and master's levels, with a focus on critical perspectives in management and organization theory. University: Lund University School: School of Economics and Management Department: Department of Business Administration Academic Rank: Professor Email: mats.alvesson@fek.lu.se His research centers on leadership, organizational culture, identity, power, gender, knowledge-intensive firms, qualitative methods, and the philosophy of science. He is known for co-developing the concept of 'functional stupidity' and for his critical analyses of symbolic management and leadership. His recent work explores the paradoxes of meaning and emptiness in modern organizations. The 15 most recent articles and books reflect a sustained engagement with critical management studies, strategy as practice, organizational change, and reflexive methodologies. His publications span qualitative theory development, leadership critique, cultural analysis, and methodological innovation, often published with leading academic presses like Oxford University Press, Sage, and Cambridge University Press. While no specific scientific awards are listed in the provided material, his extensive publication record, high research output (231 items), and international collaborations indicate significant scholarly recognition. Mats Alvesson supervises PhD students, including Rachel Waldo, and has been involved in teaching qualitative methods, knowledge work, and organizational change. He has participated in external academic activities, such as visiting Hanken School of Economics and hosting scholars like Yiannis Gabriel. His work contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the domain of social sciences and business administration. He is currently leading a dissertation project titled 'The enchanted sense making: An exploration of employee-brand love relationships in the luxury-brand sector,' reflecting his ongoing interest in symbolic and affective dimensions of organizational life.

Shane ButlerView profile

Professor

• Latin Literature
• Classical Reception Studies
• Sensation and Cognition
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Shane Butler is the Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, where he also directs the Classics Research Lab and serves as Director of Graduate Studies. He holds a PhD from Columbia University (2000) and has taught at the University of Bristol, UCLA, and the University of Pennsylvania. His research spans Latin literature, classical reception, sensation studies, aesthetics, queer theory, and media history, focusing on the interplay between embodiment and art. Education: PhD in Classics from Columbia University (2000). Prior to Hopkins, he held faculty positions at the University of Bristol, UCLA, and UPenn. He has been a residential fellow at the American Academy in Rome, Villa I Tatti, the Getty Villa, and the MPIWG Berlin. Research focuses on Latin literature from antiquity to early modernity, classical reception theory, and the sensory dimensions of ancient aesthetics. Notable works include The Passions of John Addington Symonds (2022), The Ancient Phonograph (2015), and Sound and the Ancient Senses (2019). He co-edits the Classical Philology special issue on 'Philology Transfigured' and directs the John Addington Symonds Project. Awards include fellowships at leading institutions and editorial roles, including Associate Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. His recent work explores queer philology and the intersection of sound studies with ancient literature.

Martin HägglundView profile

Professor

• Post-Kantian philosophy
• Phenomenology & Hermeneutics
• Marx & Critical Theory
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Martin Hägglund is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Yale University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University (2011) and Philosophy from Leipzig University (expected 2026). His work bridges Post-Kantian philosophy, critical theory, and modernist literature, with notable books including This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (2019), which won the René Wellek Prize, and Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (2012). Research focuses on temporality, mortality, and freedom, engaging thinkers like Heidegger, Marx, and Hegel. His writing explores secular ethics, political Marxism, and the interplay between philosophy and literature. Hägglund has held global appointments, including at Sorbonne University and invited professorships in Bonn and Cornell. Awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship (2018) and Myrdal Grand Prize (2024). Publications span over 60 articles and essays, addressing topics from Kierkegaard’s existentialism to Knausgaard’s secular confession. His current projects include The Mortality of the Soul and I Care, Therefore I Am . Teaching emphasizes Heideggerian thought, narrative temporality, and literary theory. Awards and fellowships include Harvard Society of Fellows membership (2009–2012), Berlin Prize (2024), and multiple honorary distinctions. His interdisciplinary approach unites philosophy, literature, and political theory, influencing debates on secularism, capitalism, and freedom’s material conditions.

Nadine HartmannView profile

Visiting Professor

• Feminist Philosophy of Difference
• Psychoanalysis
• Aesthetics
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Prof. Dr. Nadine Hartmann serves as Visiting Professor for Future Philosophy and Scenarios in the Field of Art and Media Philosophy at the Karlsruhe Academy of Art and Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe), a reform university founded in 1992 in collaboration with the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. Her position aligns with the institution's mission of connecting traditional arts with media technology and electronic production processes. Hartmann holds a doctorate in cultural studies with her thesis titled 'Thinking Like a Girl: Figuration, Fil(l)iation, and Sexual Difference' (forthcoming with Turia & Kant). Her academic journey includes significant appointments across German institutions, demonstrating her expertise in philosophical and theoretical approaches to art and media. Hartmann's research focuses on the intersection of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and feminist philosophy of difference. Her work examines how gender, identity, and philosophical frameworks shape artistic production and media theory. She approaches philosophical questions through the lens of contemporary art practices, exploring how theoretical concepts manifest in creative processes and media technologies. Her research contributes to ongoing dialogues about sexual difference, figuration, and filiation within contemporary philosophical discourse. Throughout her career, Hartmann has maintained strong connections with Berlin's academic institutions, particularly the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), while also contributing to philosophical discourse at other major German universities. Her teaching spans multiple disciplines within the arts and humanities, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary media philosophy. Hartmann has been actively involved in research networks, including the DFG network 'Dispositiv der Menge' and the DFG network 'Other Knowledge' in artistic research and aesthetic theory, demonstrating her commitment to collaborative scholarly work at the intersection of art and philosophy. Her academic trajectory shows consistent engagement with theoretical frameworks that bridge artistic practice and philosophical inquiry, particularly through the lens of feminist thought and psychoanalytic theory. Hartmann's work contributes to expanding philosophical discourse within art education and practice-based research contexts.