Faculty
Tilottama Rajan - Canada Research Chair, Distinguished University Professor
Doctoral Membership
Department of English; Director CSTC, July 2012 to present; 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: Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010), Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard (Stanford, 2002), The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (Cornell, 1990), Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (Cornell, 1980); editor, Mary Shelley, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Broadview, 1998), Nietzsche and Romanticism (special issue of Studies in Romanticism, 1990); co-editor, Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture (SUNY, 2004), Imagining History Before 1900 (Special issue of PMLA, 2003), After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory (Toronto, 2002), Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre (Cambridge, 1998), Intersections: Nineteenth Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory (SUNY, 1995). In progress, Reading Hegel Reading Schelling; Encyclopedic Thinking From Idealism to Deconstruction.
Theses Supervised:
- Marc Mazur: The Cruelty of Reading: Reading and Writing in the Works of Friedrich Schelling, MA thesis, 2012
- Malcolm McPherson: Dissident Spaces, MA thesis, 2012
- Jared McGeough: Romantic Anarche: The Philosophical and Literary Anarchism of William Godwin, PhD thesis, 2011
- John Vanderheide: Allegory and Apocatastasis, PhD thesis, 2010
- Mark Asberg: Go On, Give Up: Cynical Aporias, PhD thesis, 2008
- Shea Coulson: Adorno's Aesthetics of Critique, MA thesis, 2005
- Andrea Dumbrell: A History of Care in the Work of Michel Foucault, MA thesis, 2005
- Joshua Lambier: Justice, Community and the Romantic Political Unconscious, MA thesis, 2005
- Christopher Morrison: Post-Heideggereanism and the Co-Ontological Horizon, MA thesis, 2005
- Jonathan Murphy: Onto-Epistemology after Metaphysics, MA thesis, 2004
- Jeremy Proulx: Non-Contemplative Idealism, MA thesis, 2004
- Elana Commisso, Simulate This! Figurations of Simulacra: The Truth(s) That Belie Representation, MA thesis, January 2003
- Surti Singh: Negativity in Hegel, MA thesis, 2002
- John Vanderheide: On Ideology and the Ideological Ritual of Allegory, MA thesis, 2002
- Heather Snell: Spacing the Event: The Theoretical Performance of Jean Baudrillard, MA thesis, 2000
- Mark Asberg: Towards a Kantian Ethics of (In)decisive Obligation, MA thesis, 1999
- Brett Buchanan: Who is Nietzche's Philosophy?: Psychological Remainders of Post-Kantian Anthropology, MA thesis, 1999
- Neil Gohill: "Spirit" in Schelling's Freedom Essay, MA thesis, 1998
- John D. Sawicki: Towards a Politics of Apathy: Baudrillard, Bartleby and Adorno, MA thesis, 1997
- Mark Rozahegy: Levinas and the Architecture of Alterity, MA thesis, 1995
- William McConnell: Figuring Paul de Man: (Literary) History and the Indeterminacy of the Reading/Writing Subject(s), MA thesis, 1993
