Faculty
Tilottama Rajan - Canada Research Chair
Doctoral Membership
Department of English; Director CSTC, 1995-2001; Founder, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.
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Education: BA, MA, PhD, University of Toronto, FRSC
Research Interests
Phenomenology, deconstruction, post-structuralism; narrative theory, Romantic literature and theory; 19th century German philosophy and its connections to contemporary theory; disciplinarity and organisations of knowledge (19thc and 20thc).
Books: Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (Cornell, 1980); The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (Cornell, 1990); Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard (Stanford, 2003); editor, Nietzsche and Romanticism (special issue of Studies in Romanticism, 1990), Mary Shelley, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Broadview, 1998); co-editor, Intersections: Nineteenth Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory (SUNY, 1994); Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre (Cambridge, 1998); After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory (Toronto, 2003); in progress, Romantic Narrative.
Theses Supervised:
Go On, Give Up: Cynical Aporias, Mark Asberg
Adorno's Aesthetics of Critique, Shea Coulson
A History of Care in the Work of Michel Foucault, Andrea Dumbrell
Justice, Community and the Romantic Political Unconscious, Joshua Lambier
Post-Heideggereanism and the Co-Ontological Horizon, Christopher Morrison
Onto-Epistemology after Metaphysics, Jonathan Murphy
Non-Contemplative Idealism, Jeremy Proulx
Negativity in Hegel, Surti Singh
On Ideology and the Ideological Ritual of Allegory, John Vanderheide
Towards a Kantian Ethics of (In)decisive Obligation, Mark Asberg
Who is Nietzche's Philosophy?: Psychological Remainders of Post-Kantian Anthropology, Brett Buchanan
Spacing the Event: The Theoretical Performance of Jean Baudrillard, Heather Snell
"Spirit" in Schelling's Freedom Essay, Neil Gohill
Towards a Politics of Apathy: Baudrillard, Bartleby and Adorno, John D. Sawicki
Levinas and the Architecture of Alterity, Mark Rozahegy
Figuring Paul de Man: (Literary) History and the Indeterminacy of the Reading/Writing Subject(s), William McConnell
