Job title:
Professor
Department:
Department of Comparative Literature
Bio/CV:
Robert Kaufman’s teaching and research emphasize several interrelated areas: 20th-21st-century American poetry and its dialogues with modern Latin American, German, French, and British poetry; romantic and 19th-century poetry and poetics; philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, and the history of criticism (esp. since Kant and romanticism); and Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the arts (poetry and the other literary genres; music; cinema; painting, etc.).
Research interests:
Modern/contemporary poetry and poetics; aesthetics, literary theory and history of criticism; Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the arts.
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