Person

Vanderheide, John

1969

Teaching Interests  Literary and cultural theory from Plato to the present o Classical antiquity, medieval allegory theory, German Romanticism, Frankfurt school, psychoanalysis, gender and queer studies, African-American studies, French poststructuralism  The politics of class, gender, race, sexuality and culture in the formation of contemporary social relations and the contemporary subject  Modernist, late modernist and contemporary British, Irish and American literature  Film and television studies  20th century and contemporary popular culture in music, film, television, and digital media Research Interests  Deleuze studies (affect theory, theory of Ideas)  German thought from Kant to the Frankfurt School (Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Adorno)  Humor studies (the history, theory and politics of comedy)  Representations and uses of musical forms, movements and musicians in print, on stage, film and television, fiction and non-fiction  James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett, Ann Quin, Cormac McCarthy, William Burroughs, Stewart Home