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Erik Vogt
Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Philosophy
Phone: (860) 297-4095 Office Location: McCook 316
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Trinity College faculty member since 2002 View office hours for Fall 2026
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Degrees:
Univ.-Doz., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Ph.D., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
M.A., Univ. of Vienna, Austria

Author/(co-)editor of 26 books; author of 90+ published and forthcoming articles and book chapters; translator of 11 books and of 100+ articles from 70+ different authors; some of his work has been translated into 8 languages. He has served as first/second adviser and external reader of dozens of doctoral dissertations (and also master's theses) on both sides of the Atlantic.

Most recent publication: Peter Handkes literarische Romantik (December 2024); Alain Badiou und die Künste (together with Michael Zangerl; December 2025); Biopolitik in der Kunst. Transkulturelle Konstellationen in der Ästhetik (together with Gerhard Unterthurner and Christian Sorace; November 2026). 

Current research: 

1. Monograph on Elfriede Jelinek examining the ways in which Jelinek's (conception of) literature can be read as disarticulation of the romantic phantasmagoria of "große Kunst/Dichtung" that has often figured as the foundation for nationalist and exclusionary political projects in Austria and Germany.  Texts such as Wolken.Heim, Totenauberg and several others address Martin Heidegger's (and others') account of the relationship between language, Dichtung (as "Ur-Sprache des deutschen Volkes"), earth, and politics, and they perform Überschreibungen of Heidegger's "racinated" mytheme of language as Mahnmale against current identitarian discourses in Europe, in the US, and in Russia. Publication date is expected for 2027.

2. Volume (co-edited with Michael Zangerl) focusing on the work of the eminent French thinker Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and examines his significant contributions to literature, the arts, psychoanalysis, and politics. It is scheduled for publication in late 2027.