Dr. Jacob Bard Rosenberg

Biography

Jacob Bard-Rosenberg holds a BA in Music from the University of Cambridge (2007), an MA in Cultural Critical Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London (2011), and a PhD in Critical Theory from Birkbeck College, University of London (2022). He joined Edinburgh College of Art in 2024 and has taught interdisciplinary BA Arts and Humanities at Birkbeck and MRes Art: Theory and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His doctoral research focused on the role of dream texts, aesthetics, and theories of memory through the lens of German critical theory, particularly the works of Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin. Jacob has served as a research assistant to Prof. Katrina Forrester at Harvard University and worked on a British Academy-funded project addressing issues of race, identity, and political mobilization. His research spans critical theory, contemporary continental thought, philosophical aesthetics, and the political art and media histories of social movements. Jacob has significant expertise in the long histories of situationism and workerism, as well as interdisciplinary projects that incorporate music and literature. He is currently engaged in research projects, including a monograph examining shame and inflationary logics in Walter Benjamin's work, as well as articles on Adorno and collaborative works with poet Anne Boyer.

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