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Karen Feldman received her B.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from DePaul University. In 2000, she joined UC Berkeley’s Department of Rhetoric as a visiting assistant professor and has been a member of the Department of German since 2007. Feldman is a Fulbright Scholar and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. She has received the Hellman Family Faculty Award and is a Townsend Center Humanities Fellow. Feldman has worked as an invited researcher with research clusters such as 'Cultural Foundations Europe' at the University of Konstanz in Germany, and participated in research programs at the University of Halle and the Free University of Berlin. Her research interacts with philosophy and literary theory, focusing on canonical German literary and philosophical texts while emphasizing Critical Theory. She has published works on authors such as Gottsched, G.F. Meier, Kant, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, Heidegger, Koselleck, and Arendt. Her research interests include the Frankfurt School, German Idealism, Aesthetics, Literature Philosophy, and Intellectual History.
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