Research

As a literary scholar and intellectual historian, my interdisciplinary research is focused on questions of language in 20th century European philosophy, literature, and Jewish thought. My doctoral dissertation, “The Adventure of the Book: Jabès, Derrida, Levinas,” is a study of post-war French-Jewish intellectuals, and their reflections on exile, Jewish identity, and the memory of the Shoah.

Through a commitment to close reading, my work approaches these questions in areas of political, literary, and philosophical discourse, with an attention to the ways that language shapes our experience of the world, and informs practices of belief. My work is guided by the view of translation as a paradigm for philosophical discourse: I analyze how questions and disagreements in philosophy and literature arise originally as problems of language.