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Faculty
Jan Plug (away July 2011 - June 2012)
Doctoral Membership
Department of English
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Education: BA, MA, Western; MA, PhD, SUNY Buffalo
Research Interests
Enlightenment and Idealist philosophy, Romanticism, aesthetics, contemporary theory, including deconstruction and theory of community.
Books: Borders of a Lip: Romanticism, Language, History, Politics (SUNY, 2003); trans. Jacques Derrida, Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 (Stanford, 2004), trans., Jacques Derrida, Who's Afraid of Philosophy?: Right to Philosophy 1 (Stanford, 2002), trans. Marc Froment-Meurice, That is to Say: Heidegger's Poetics (Stanford, 1998).
Theses Supervised:
- Kamran Ahmed: Descartes’ Askesis, MA thesis, 2012
- Tyler Miller: Comparing Arche-Writing, MA thesis, 2012
- David Collins: Physical and Artistic Taste in Hegel, Nietzsche and Huysmans, MA thesis, 2006
