Dr. Amanda Anderson

Biography

Amanda Anderson joined the Brown University faculty in 2012 and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities in the Department of English. She served as the Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities starting in 2015 and launched the podcast 'Meeting Street: Conversations in the Humanities' in 2020. She is a literary scholar and theorist specializing in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, focusing on critical theory, intellectual history, and the intersections of art and politics. Her notable works include 'Psyche Ethos: Moral Life in Psychology' (2018), 'Bleak Liberalism' (2016), and 'The Way We Argue: A Study in Cultures and Theory' (2006). As a co-editor, she has contributed to 'The Companion to George Eliot' (2013) and 'Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle' (2002). Beyond her role at Brown, she has served as the director of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University and has held various fellowships and grants, reflecting her extensive engagement in the field of humanities.

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