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Prof. Claudia Brodsky holds the rank of Full Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she has served since 1995. Previously, she was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Princeton, and a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. Her research spans 17th-century to contemporary literature and philosophy, with a focus on intersections between literary forms, epistemology, and architectural theory. She earned a B.A. from Harvard University (1976), and M.Phil. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) from Yale University.
Her scholarly work bridges literature, philosophy, and social theory, examining how representational forms mediate knowledge and experience. Key publications include The Imposition of Form (1987), Lines of Thought (1996), and In the Place of Language (2009). She has authored approximately 50 articles in English, German, and French, addressing topics from Descartes’ architectural theories to Wordsworth’s poetics.
Her FRIAS research project, “Positively Uncertain: Knowledge in Representation”, argues that uncertainty drives intellectual progress through discursive forms in literature and philosophy. This project re-examines thinkers like Kant, Hegel, and Benjamin to trace how representational practices navigate cognitive and empirical boundaries.
Brodsky has collaborated with prominent figures like Toni Morrison on edited volumes such as Birth of a Nation’hood (1997). Her work frequently explores architectural metaphors in philosophical and literary discourse, linking spatial concepts to epistemological frameworks.
