Eric Santner, a leading cultural theorist and scholar of German literature, cinema, and history is the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, as well as a member of the University's Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a visiting fellow at various institutions, including Dartmouth, Washington University, Cornell, and the University of Konstanz. He works at the intersection of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, and religious thought.
Santner's many books include: Friedrich Hölderlin: Narrative Vigilance and the Poetic Imagination (Rutgers, 1986); Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany (Cornell, 1990); My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity (Princeton, 1997); On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (Chicago, 2001); On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald (Chicago, 2006); The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (Chicago, 2006, with Slavoj Zizek and Kenneth Reinhard); and The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty (Chicago, 2011) He edited the German Library Series volume of works by Friedrich Hölderlin and co-edited, with Moishe Postone, Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 2003). His work has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Korean, Hebrew, Polish, Italian, and Portuguese.
Hent De Vries is the Russ Family Chair in the Humanities and the Director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also Professor of Philosophy. He is, furthermore, the Director of the School for Criticism and Theory at Cornell University (through 2018). He has held multiple visiting faculty positions or research stays in Europe and the U.S., including the University of Amsterdam, where he was a co-founder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, the Collège de Philosophie in Paris, Hebrew University, Princeton, Chicago, Harvard, Brown, and elsewhere.
His principal publications include: Philosophy and the Turn to Religion (Johns Hopkins UP, 1999, 2000), Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (Johns Hopkins, 2002, 2006), and Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas (Johns Hopkins, 2005). He is the co-editor, with Samuel Weber, of Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination (Stanford, 1997) and of Religion and Media (Stanford, 2002). He is also the co-editor, with Lawrence E. Sullivan, of Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World (Fordham, 2006), the editor of Religion: Beyond a Concept (Fordham, 2007), and the co-editor, with Willemien Otten and Arjo Vanderjagt, of How the West was Won: Essays on Literary Imagination, the Canon and the Christian Middle Ages (Brill, 2010). He is also the co-editor, with Ward Blanton, of Paul and the Philosophers (Fordham, 2013), and, with Nils F. Schott, of Human Alert: Concepts and Practices of Love and Forgiveness (Columbia, 2014).
Currently de Vries is completing several book-length studies, including a trilogy on the subject and politics of global religion in the age of new media. He is the editor of the book series, Cultural Memory in the Present, published by Stanford University Press.
Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University, where he is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and the Department of Philosophy. His scholarship focuses on modern European intellectual history from the late 19th to the late 20th century. His primary area of expertise is Continental Philosophy and modern German and French thought. He has written extensively on Martin Heidegger, phenomenology, and, most recently, secularization and social thought in the 20th century.
Gordon's highly regarded first book, Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003), was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize, the Salo W. Baron Prize, the Goldstein Goren Prize, and the Koret Foundation Publication Prize. His most recent book on the 1929 debate between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer, entitled Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (2010), was awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society in 2010. Gordon is the co-editor of several books, including Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy (2013); The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory (2008); The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (2007); and The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion (2014). Additionally, Gordon serves on the editorial boards for Modern Intellectual History, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Jewish Social Studies and New German Critique, and he has written review for The New Republic and The New York Review of Books.
Peter Gordon received his B.A. from Reed College in 1988, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. A recipient of both an honorary Harvard College Professorship and Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Gordon has been on the faculty of the History department at Harvard University since 2000, and was appointed Amabel B. James Professor of History in 2011. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History. He is currently working on a new book on secularization and social thought in the twentieth century. His newest book, entitled Adorno and Existence: Five Lectures is also forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor in the Departments of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. She is also Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. She works at the intersections of political theory, law, cultural studies, feminist theory, and literary theory.
She is the author of several prizewinning books and articles, including Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (2009; co-winner of the David Easton prize) and Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (1993; winner of the 1994 Scripps Prize for best first book in political theory). Her most recent book is Antigone, Interrupted (2013), which explores the politics of gender, law, grief, and the human through a reading of Sophocles' tragedy and its many prior interpreters. She is currently working on a new book based on her lectures in the Thinking Out Loud Series in Sydney, Australia in 2013.
Bonnie Honig received her BA in political science from Concordia University, Quebec, in 1980. She received her M.S.C. with Distinction from the London School of Economics in 1981, her M.A. in political theory from the Johns Hopkins University in 1986, and her Ph.D., also from Johns Hopkins, in 1989. Until 2013 she was Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and senior research professor at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern in 1997, Honig was Assistant and Associate Professor at Harvard University. Honig has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and, most recently, the American Philosophical Society.
Kevis Goodman is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where she writes about and teaches British literature from Milton and the Civil War through the Romantic era. She is the author of Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History (Cambridge, 2004, 2008). Her articles on topics in literary history and literary criticism have appeared in several book collections as well as in such journals as English Literary History, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, South Atlantic Quarterly, The Wordsworth Circle, and others. The book she is currently completing, entitled Pathologies of Motion, studies Enlightenment medicine and Romantic aesthetic theory and practice, primarily in Britain, as forms of knowledge that found overlapping ways to register and represent the historical present unfolding in the body.
At Berkeley, she has won the campus's Distinguished Teaching Award and a Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors.
