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Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei is a Professor and William Kurrelmeyer Chair in German, as well as Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. She serves as Director of Graduate Studies in German and founded the Environmental Humanities Research Initiative. Her academic career includes appointments as Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2023), and spans multiple institutions: DPhil/MSt in German and European Literature from the University of Oxford, MA/PhD in Philosophy from Villanova University, and MFA in Poetry from Columbia University.
Her research bridges philosophy and literature, focusing on continental philosophy, phenomenology, aesthetics, cognitive literary theory, and environmental humanities. Key interests include the philosophy of imagination, modern German literature, and interdisciplinary connections between literature, art, and ecology. Her work interrogates existentialist thought, the role of imagination in creativity and environmental ethics, and the intersection of the everyday with ecstatic experience.
Publications highlight her expertise:
- Imagination: A Very Short Introduction (2023) reframes imagination’s role in cognition and creativity.
- On Being and Becoming (2020) reinterprets existentialism’s historical and global dimensions.
- The Ecstatic Quotidian (2007) won an Outstanding Academic Title for its analysis of everyday experience in art/literature.
Awards include the Paris Review Prize in Poetry (2020s) and recognition for environmental humanities contributions. Her current projects explore phenomenological ecology and the imagination’s role in literary environmentalism.
