Dr. Victoria Kahn

Biography

Victoria Kahn is an academic specializing in Renaissance and Early Modern critical theory. She has been teaching at the University of California, Berkeley since 1997, after previous positions at Princeton University and UC, Irvine. Her courses cover a range of topics including Milton, seventeenth-century English literature, and literary theory, as well as comparative literature focusing on continental Renaissance literary theory. Kahn is widely published in the areas of Machiavelli and Hobbes, and her recent works include 'Future Illusion: Political Theology in Early Modern Texts' (2014) and 'Trouble Literature' (2020). She has explored the role of early modern texts in shaping modernity and has contributed significantly to the fields of political theory and literary criticism.

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