Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

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1 Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD jgosett1jhu.edu Professional Affiliations: The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Professor and William Kurrelmeyer Chair in German, since Fordham University, New York. Professor of Philosophy, Director of Graduate Studies, and Faculty of Comparative Literature Board of Directors, Fordham University Press, Associate Professor of Philosophy Visiting Asst. Professor Lauer Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK. Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Chair in Modern Languages, University of Oxford, UK. Associate Researcher, The Balzan Project Literature as an Object of Knowledge at St. John s College, Visiting Research Associate, St. John s College Research Centre, Lecturer in German, St. John s College, Oxford, University of Maine. Assistant Professor of Philosophy Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Lecturer in Philosophy, Villanova University, Pennsylvania. Instructor in Philosophy 1996 and Education: University of Oxford, St. John s College, Doctor of Philosophy in Modern Languages and Literatures (German), University of Oxford, St. Catherine s College, Master of Studies in European Literature, 2006 (with Distinction). Columbia University, Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, Villanova University, Doctor of Philosophy, Philosophy, Humboldt University, Visiting Student University of Leipzig, Herder Institute, Villanova University, Master of Arts, Philosophy, Monographs: The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). Exotic Spaces in German Modernism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2007).

2 2 Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004). Other Books: After the Palace Burns. Poems (Lincoln, NE: Zoo Press, 2004). The Paris Review Prize in Poetry. Translation: Martin Heidegger, Phenomenology of Religious Life, trans. Fritsch and Gosetti-Ferencei (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004). Journal Articles and Book Chapters: Imaginative Ecology in Rilke s Sonnets to Orpheus, for Rainer Maria Rilke: Sonnets to Orpheus, ed. Hannah Eldridge and Luke Fischer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Nature and Poetic Consciousness from Hölderlin to Rilke, in Harmonisch entgegengesetzt: Hölderlin s Philosophy of Nature, ed. Rochelle Tobias (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). Distributed Cognition in Modern Poetry and Painting: Rilke and Cézanne, in History of Distributed Cognition: Modernism, ed. Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). Language, World, and Animality: Between Derrida and Heidegger, Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté (London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming). Nietzsche s Cognitive Ecologies, in Anti-Idealism, Anti-Classicism, ed. Gert Hoffman (Berlin: de Gruyter, forthcoming). On Literary Understanding, Varieties of Understanding, ed. Stephen Grimm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). On Philosophy and Poetry, Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, ed. Barry Stocker (New York: Palgrave, 2018). Phenomenology and the Imagination of Modernism, in Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism, ed. Ariane Mildenberg (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). Muerte y autenticidad. Reflexiones sobre Heidegger, Rilke y Blanchot, trans. J. Daniel González Marín, Andamios Vol. 14, no 33 (enero-abril 2017) pp The Imagination of Animals: Rilke, Kafka, and the Philosophy and Literature of Embodied Cognition, in The Animal Inside: Essays at the Intersections of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies, ed. Geoffrey Dierckxsens et al (Lantham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2016). Radnoti, Blanchot, and the (Un)writing of Disaster, Comparative Literature and Culture 17.2 (June 2015). The Mimetic Dimension: Literature Between Neuroscience and Phenomenology, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 54, no. 4 (October 2014), The Tragic Dimension in Modern German Painting, A Companion to Tragedy in German Literature, Art, and Thought, ed. Stephen Dowden and Thomas Quinn (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014). Death and Authenticity: Reflections on Heidegger, Rilke, Blanchot, Existenz, 9:1 (Spring 2014). The World and Image of Poetic Language: Heidegger and Blanchot, Continental Philosophy Review 45:2 (2012). Writing in Philosophy and the Literature and Philosophy of Writing (Plato, Mann, Blanchot) in Philosophy, Literature, and the Crisis of Metaphysics, ed. Sébastian Hüsch (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011).

3 3 Immanent Transcendence in Rilke and Stevens, The German Quarterly 83:3 (Summer 2010). The Poetics of World: Sources of Poetic Theory in Heidegger s Phenomenology of Religious Life, in A Companion to Heidegger s Phenomenology of Religious Life, ed. Andre Wiercinski and Sean McGrath (Rodopi Press, 2010). Foreshadowings of the Kafkaesque in Alfred Kubin s Drawings, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics vol. III, no. 4 (December 2008). Interstitial Space in Rilke s Short Prose Works, The German Quarterly 80:3 (Summer 2007). The Poetics of Thinking: Heidegger and Hölderlin, in Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to the Contemporary Debates, ed. David Rudrum, (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007). Between Animality and Intellection: Phenomenology of the Child-Consciousness in Proust and Merleau-Ponty, Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research vol. 93 (2007). Language and The Flesh of Being: Merleau-Ponty and Kristeva, in Interrogating Ethics: Essays on Merleau-Ponty, edited by James Hatley (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006). Articulate Spontaneity and the Aesthetic Imagination, Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol. 92 (2006). Moral Sentiment and the Ethics of Representation in Holocaust Literature, Analecta Husserliana: the Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol. 84 (2006). Trompe l Oeil and the Mimetic Tradition in Aesthetics, Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol. 87 (2006). Confirmations of Life in a Phenomenology of the Poetic Image, Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol. 83 (2004). The Aesthetic and the Poetic Image: Beyond the Ekphrastic Divide, Philosophy Today, vol. 29 (Summer 2003). Phenomenology of the Mysterious: A Reading of Rilke s Sonnets to Orpheus, Phenomenological Inquiry vol. 26 (Fall 2002). Ash in the Clouds: Unearthing Goethe, in Literary Imagination: Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, 4:3 (2002). Tragedy and Truth in Heidegger and Jaspers, International Philosophical Quarterly 42:3 (Fall 2002). Phenomenological Literature: From the Natural Attitude to Recognition, Philosophy Today, vol. 45 (Summer 2001). The Ecstatic Quotidian: Literary Phenomenology in Sartre and Rilke, Journal of the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, 7:1 (2001). Figures of the Feminine in Heidegger s Theory of Poetic Language, in Feminist Interpretations of Heidegger, edited by Patricia J. Huntington and Nancy Holland (College Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001). Revolutions in Language: Hölderlin to Kristeva, International Studies in Philosophy, XXXII:1 (1999). Language and Subject in Heidegger and Kristeva, Philosophy Today (SPEP supplement, vol. 43, 1999). The Poetic Politics of Dwelling: Hölderlin, Kant, Heidegger, International Studies in Philosophy, XXXI: 1 (1998). Reviews: Friedrich Nietzsche: A Companion to His Life and Works, ed. Paul Bishop, Modern Language Review vol. 110, part 4 (October 2015). The Cambridge Companion to Rainer Maria Rilke, ed. Leeder and Vilain, Modern Language Review (Spring 2012). Julian Young, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, Modern Language Review (Summer 2012).

4 4 Michael Cowan, Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity, Modern Language Review (Spring 2010). Wolfgang Detel, Foucault and Antiquity, International Philosophical Quarterly (Spring 2006). Martin Heidegger, Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle, Review of Metaphysics, vol. 57: 3 (March 2004). Conference Presentations, Invited Lectures, and Addresses: Existentialism as a Way of Life (invited speaker), National Endowment for the Humanities Institute Philosophy as a Way of Life, Wesleyan University, CT, July 18, On Poetry and Truth, (invited speaker) The Contribution of the Humanities to the University Summer Seminar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 21, 2017; and Center for Poetic Innovation, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, 2 November 2017; and University of Warwick, Philosophy and Poetry conference, Warwick, UK, June 12, Keynote Lecture: Imagination, Perception, and the Phenomenology of Modern Art, Red Star Line Philosophy Conference, University of Antwerp, Belgium, August 18, Nature and Poetic Consciousness in Hölderlin and Rilke, Harmonisch entgegengesetzt: Thinking Nature After Hölderlin conference, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA April 30, 2017; (invited speaker): Anti-Idealism, Anti-Romanticism Conference, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland, June 9, Imagination and Perception in Phenomenology (invited speaker), Oxford Phenomenology Network, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, November 2, 2016). Capstone Lecture, On Literary Understanding, Varieties of Understanding Project, John Templeton Foundation, Fordham University, New York, June 24, On Literary Envisioning, (invited speaker) London Aesthetics Forum, University of London, School of Advanced Study, London, UK, February 10, Distributed Cognition and the Phenomenology of Art and Literature, (invited speaker) Center for Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts, University of Warwick, UK, November 24, Keynote Lecture, Creativity, Imagination, and Technology, Conference on the Humanities and Technology, University of Rhode Island, November 18, The Role of Imagination in Literary Empathy, 2 nd Annual International Conference on Empathy, Mansfield College, Oxford, September 7-9, Embodied Expression and Distributed Cognition in Modernist Poetry and Painting (Rilke and Cézanne), University of Edinburgh, History of Distributed Cognition, Modernism Workshop, July 3, Imaginative Envisioning: Challenges in Rilke and Kafka, (invited), Harvard University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 13, And (invited), Johns Hopkins University, Department of Germanic and Romance Languages, Baltimore, Maryland, October 30, Invited Discussant, Tragedy in German Literature, Art, and Thought, Brandeis University and Goethe Institut, Boston, Massachusetts, March 13-14, Keynote Lecture, The Imagination of Animals, University of Antwerp, Red Star Line Philosophical Conference Animals in Philosophical Argument, Antwerp, Belgium, September 21, The Functions of Imagination, at the Balzan Foundation Project and St. John s College, Oxford, Conference Thinking with Literature, Oslo, Norway, September 11, On Imagination in Literary Experience: Kafka Between Phenomenology and Neuroscience, Annual Faculty Lecture, Fordham University, New York, October 23, Topographies of Imagination, invited lecture, National University of Galway, Ireland, Philosophy, Arts, and Imagination Conference, March 22, 2012, and The Research Center, St. John s College, Oxford, UK, Seminar on Imaginary Topographies February 25, 2012.

5 Urbanity and Inwardness in Simmel and Kierkegaard, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Montreal, Canada, Nov. 6, Death, Fear, and Authenticity, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 26, Keynote Lecture, The Holy in Word and Image: Heidegger s Reception of Hölderlin, International Colloquium for Phenomenology, Poetics, and Ethics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, May 11, 2010 (in absentia). From Writing in Philosophy to Philosophy as Writing: Plato to Blanchot, International Philosophy and Literature Conference, Université de Pau, Pau, France, March 12, World and Image in Heidegger s Theory of Poetic Language, Heidegger Circle Seminars, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook New York, April 22, Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy Lecture Series, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 21, Immanent Transcendence in Rilke and Stevens, International Symposium for Phenomenology, Conference on Phenomenology, Literature, and Art, Perugia, Italy, July 17, Regions of Immanent Transcendence: Phenomenology in Rilke and Stevens, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Brunel University, London, UK, June 1-8, The Quotidian in Philosophy and Art, Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honors Society Induction, Fordham University, New York, March The Ecstatic Sonnets: Nietzsche s Influence on Rilke, Nietzsche Circle at Deutsches Haus, New York University, New York, March 27, Phenomenology of Space in Rilke and Stevens, University of Warwick, UK, Philosophers Reading Poetry/ Poets Reading Philosophy Conference at the Warwick Center for the Arts, October 26-29, Between Image/Rhythm/Form: Heidegger/Hölderlin/Rilke, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Freiburg, Germany, June, Phenomenology of the Child-Consciousness in Literature, World Congress of Phenomenology, Raboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 18, Postcards from the Holocaust: Blanchot and the (Un)writing of Disaster, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Helsinki, Finland, June 2-7, The Aesthetic Imagination and Spontaneity, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK, World Congress of Phenomenology, August 24, Elsewhere and Otherwise: On Modern Art and Literature, Keynote Speaker, Maine Honors Conference, University of Maine, April 16, Beyond Ekphrasis with Rilke and Cézanne, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston Park Plaza, November 6-8, Invited lecture, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, February 11, Moral Sentiment and the Ethics of Representation in Holocaust Literature, International Society for Phenomenology and Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 6-8, Confirmations of Life in a Phenomenology of the Poetic Image, International Congress of Phenomenology, Thomas Aquinas University, Rome, Italy, June 26-28, Beyond Ekphrasis: Writing and the Artistic Image in Poetic Phenomenology, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 4-8, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 6-8, Phenomenological Poetics: A Reading of Rilke s Sonnets to Orpheus, Society for 5

6 6 Phenomenology and Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 7-9, Phenomenological Literature, Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, October 6, Trompe l Oeil Painting and the Mimetic Tradition, International Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, University of West Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 2, Philosophy, Art, and the Consummation of Experience (Dewey s Aesthetics), Induction, Fordham University Chapter, Phi Sigma Tau National Honors Society for Philosophy, New York, New York, May Painting and the Inexhaustible Reality of Things, Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, April 24-27, The Ecstatic Quotidian in Literary Phenomenology, Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature and the Visual Arts, State University of West Georgia, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 4, A Feminine Abode of the Self, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, October, Nietzsche s Primal Lessons, Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture Conference at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, April 24-7, Jaspers and Heidegger on Tragedy and Historical Truth, Karl Jaspers Society at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 27-30, Tragic Lessons in Kristeva and Nietzsche, Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, University of West Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 8, Language and the Flesh of Being, Merleau-Ponty Circle Conference, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, Maryland, September 17, Also at Fordham University, Philosophy Department, New York, February Heidegger s Senses: Response to Véronique Fóti, Heidegger Circle of N. America Conference, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, April 12, Revolutions in Language: Kristeva and Hölderlin, Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, April 24, Technology, Nature, and the Poetics of 'Life' in Kant, Hölderlin, and Heidegger, Karl Jaspers Society at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 27-29, The Poetic Politics of Dwelling: Heidegger, Hölderlin, Kant at Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, April 25-27, Overcoming the Subject in Heidegger and Foucault, Participant Conference of the Collegium Phanomenologicum, July 6, 1994, Perugia, Italy. Awards (selected): Graduate Alumni Medallion, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, Fordham University, Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher for the Arts and Humanities, American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title/CHOICE Award, Clarendon Scholar, University of Oxford, Frank Alan Bullock Prize, St. Catherine s College, Oxford, The Paris Review Prize in Poetry, Claire Woolrich Scholarship, Columbia University, DAAD Grant, University of Leipzig,1995. University Teaching Experience (selected courses): Graduate: Literary Aesthetics; Philosophy of Literature; Philosophical Aesthetics; Philosophical Theories of Modernity; Nietzsche (for Intellectual Subversives Module); Tutorials on Heidegger s

7 Beiträge; Heidegger s Later Thought; The Self in Dostoevsky. Undergraduate: Exitentialism in Literature and Philosophy; German Literary Modernism; The City as Text: Modernity and Modernism in London; Philosophy of Art; Seminar in Art, Morality, and Politics; Heidegger s Being and Time; German Literature: Poetry; German Literature: Prose; German Literature: Drama (three Oxford terms); Seminars in Translation (German, second and final year) (three Oxford terms); Philosophy of Literature; Philosophy of Human Nature; Philosophical Ethics; Topics in 19 h Century Continental Philosophy; Topics in 20 th Century Continental Philosophy; Existentialism and Phenomenology; Existentialism and Literature; Historical Introduction to Modern Philosophy. 7