Degrees:
Univ.-Doz., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Ph.D., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
M.A., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Author/editor of 26 books; author of 80+ articles and book chapters; translator of 11 books and of 90+ articles; some of his work has been translated into 7 languages.
His (co-)edited volumes as well as his translations of 70+ authors from 5 continents have been undertaken in the hope that they might constitute a small contribution to the publication and circulation of important diverse established and fresh voices from different linguistic and cultural traditions.
Most recently, he finished a book about the Austrian writer Peter Handke (who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2019) entitled "Peter Handkes literarische Romantik".
He is preparing an edited volume examining the question of the arts (literature and theater, music, painting) in Alain Badiou's seminal work; this volume includes an essay by Professor Alain Badiou and succeeds prior volumes on "Slavoj Zizek und die Künste" and on "Jacques Rancière und die Literatur".
Furthermore, he is preparing a volume (together with Gerhard Unterthurner and Christian Sorace) that examines the contemporary constellation of biopolitics, aesthetics, and art by gathering theoretical and artistic perspectives from and/or on China, Japan, Turkey, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Italy, France, Austria, and Germany. Publication date for both volumes will be 2025-2026.
His next monograph - a continuation of the aesthetic-political project delineated in the book on Handke - will engage with the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2004) to examine the ways in which Jelinek's (conception of) literature can be grasped in terms of a disarticulation of the romantic notion of "great literature" that, as supposed foundation of "eigentliche Politik", has often invoked some "secret destiny" for the supposedly elect "German" and/or "Austrian" people ("Volk"). This identitarian myth is, as Jelinek brilliantly demonstrates, at the heart of both past and present philosophical and political theories (she engages with Martin Heidegger and other far-right thinkers, as well as with contemporary far-right politicians in Austria and elsewhere) - theories that impudently exhibit their allegiance to an archi-fascist legacy.
He is also working on several shorter texts addressing the following topics: the possibility of the "Gedicht" "after" Auschwitz in Alain Badiou and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; the constellation of the museum, the avant-garde and biopolitics in the aesthetic writings of Boris Groys and Jacques Rancière; curatorship as an aesthetic-political practice in the work of Boris Groys; Mario Perniola's political philosophy; Frantz Fanon's complex relationship to European thought.
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20th Century and Contemporary German, French, Italian, Slovene Philosophy
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Aesthetics, (Austrian) Literature
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Anti-Semitism, Europe, Genocide, Biopolitics, Racism, Monstrosity
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Adorno, Agamben, Badiou, Balibar, Baudrillard, Bernhard, Celan, Dennett, Derrida, Fanon, Foucault, Grossman, Groys, Handke, Hofmannsthal, Jelinek, Kafka, Laclau, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lyotard, Perniola, Rancière, Sartre, Schmitt, Vattimo, Wagner, Žižek
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GUEST PROFESSORSHIPS:
Visiting Professor of German, Department of German Studies, Wesleyan University (CT, USA), Spring 2026.
LFUI Research Guest Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Department of Philosophy, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, (Tyrol, Austria), Fall 2025.
Visiting Professor, Department of MultiMediaArt, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, (Salzburg, Austria), 2015 - 2021.
Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria), Spring 2001.
TEACHING AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching
Excellence, Trinity College (2021)
Appointed Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor for Philosophy, Trinity College (2011)
Listed in Austrian Magazine "Format" among the "most important 25 Austrian scientist under 40 years of age working outside Austria" (2004).
Habilitation with venia legendi (Priv.-Doz.) for "Allgemeine Philosophie", University of Vienna, 2003.
Faculty Excellence Award for Excellence in Advising (Philosophy Club), Loyola University (1998)
RESEARCH AND TRANSLATIONS GRANTS (so far totaling over USD 100,000):
Research Grant, FWF (Austrian Science Fund)
Literature Grant, City of Vienna
Research Grants, University of Vienna.
Translation Grants, Loyola University.
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