Graduate Student, English
About
I am a student at Kutztown University, focusing on literary theory and philosophy. My main interest is in the relationship between the two, though I am also interested in pedagogy, creative writing, film, and the rhetoric of politics. I am a poet, and run a poetry workshop at a local art gallery.
I am interested in applying the metaphysic and aesthetic of Martin Heidegger to the shifting constructions of subjectivity during the transition from the modern to the postmodern (First World War through Vietnam, approximately). I hold that this Heideggerian understanding of subjectivity explains some of the commonalities between the poetry of high modernism and film noir.
On the literary side I am currently reading Northrop Frye, Howard Bloom, Roland Barthes and Shakespeare. On the philosophical front I am reading Lao Tzu, Confuscious, FH Bradley, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Wittgenstein. How's that for some dead white guys! (Sorry Bloom, I know you are still kicking...)
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