Members
Camille Germanos (English and Comparative Literature)
Thesis title: TBC
Ksenija Krapivina (Visual Cultures)
Thesis title: TBC
Felipe Lagos (Sociology)
Thesis title: Modernity, Capital and Historicity: Tracing Latin American Marxism
Yari Lanci (Politics)
Thesis title: TBC
Roberto Mozzachiodi (MCCS)
Thesis title: The End of Philosophy in Marx: Henri Lefebvre, Louis Althusser, and Jacques Derrida
Federica Murè (English and Comparative Literature)
Thesis title: TBC (Funded by CHASE AHRC studentship)
Florence Platford (English and Comparative Literature)
Thesis title: Political Occultology: Walter Benjamin’s ‘Surrealism’ and the Figure of the Secret Society (Funded by departmental bursary)
Filippo Ursitti (English and Comparative Literature / Critical Theory)
Thesis title: TBC
Recent Doctoral Research
Bromberg, Svenja (Sociology, 2016). Thesis title: Thinking ‘emancipation’ after Marx: A conceptual analysis of emancipation between citizenship and revolution.
Law, Christopher (English and Comparative Literature, 2019)
Thesis title: The Life in Language: The Concept of Uncriticizability from Goethe to Benjamin (Funded by CHASE AHRC studentship)
Truskolaski, Sebastian (Visual Cultures, 2016). Thesis title: Bilderverbot: Adorno and the Ban on Images.
Vandeputte, Tom (English and Comparative Literature, 2017). Thesis title: Critique of Journalistic Reason: Language and History in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Benjamin
Visiting Researchers
2017-2018
Jacob McGuinn, Associate Lecturer, English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths (PhD Queen Mary University of London)
2016-2017
Matthias Lievens, Assistant Professor, Institute for Philosophy, KU Leuven
2015-2016
Katja Cicigoj, PhD fellow, Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Giessen / CRMEP, Kingston