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Marc Redfield studied at Yale and Cornell, and has taught at Université de Genève, Claremont Graduate University, and currently at Brown University. He specializes in British, American, French, and German literature with a focus on literary theory, particularly in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, romanticism, and the intersections of literature and philosophy. Redfield is the author of five books, including Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology Bildungsroman (1996), which won the MLA Book Prize, Politics Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism (2003), Rhetoric Terror: Reflections 9/11 War Terror (2009), Theory Yale: Strange Case Deconstruction America (2016), and Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan (2021). He has also edited Legacies Paul de Man (2007) and co-edited High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (2002). Redfield's research interests encompass British, American, French, and German literary theory and criticism, with particular emphasis on romanticism and aesthetics, exploring historical discourse in aesthetics and its implications for political enfranchisement and democratic representation.
Department: Department of Economics