Professor and Chair, Dept. of Comparitive Literature and Humanities
David Ferris (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities. Prior to teaching at CU-Boulder he held concurrent positions in Comparative Literature, English and German at the Graduate School and in Comparative Literature at Queens College of the City University of New York, in Comparative Literature and English at Yale University, and in English at Haverford College. His recent publications include essays on Adorno and Modernism, Benjamin and photography, Vattimo and the postmodern. He is also a contributor to the ACLA's Ten Year Report on the Discipline. His current projects include two books: Politics after Aesthetics and Postmodern Mimesis: The Ethics of Distortion. He has received a Senior Faculty Research Fellowship from the ACLS, NEH Summer Research Grant, and has been a Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale.
Teaching Interests
Modern European literature-especially poetry, modernity and the postmodern, photography and painting, reception of the Enlightenment in the 19th and 20th centuries, lyric poetry, 19th and 20th century aesthetics and literary theory, the Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, political theory, 18th and late 20th century painting.
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David Ferris (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities. Prior to teaching at CU-Boulder he held concurrent positions in Comparative Literature, English and German at the Graduate School and in Comparative Literature at Queens College of the City University of New York, in Comparative Literature and English at Yale University, and in English at Haverford College. His recent publications include essays on Adorno and Modernism, Benjamin and photography, Vattimo and the postmodern. He is also a contributor to the ACLA's Ten Year Report on the Discipline. His current projects include two books: Politics after Aesthetics and Postmodern Mimesis: The Ethics of Distortion. He has received a Senior Faculty Research Fellowship from the ACLS, NEH Summer Research Grant, and has been a Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale.