Paul KottmanPhD, Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Studies
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Areas of Expertise:Renaissance drama, ancient drama and philosophy, literary theory
Profile:Paul A. Kottman is the author of Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming), A Politics of the Scene (Stanford University Press, 2008) and the editor of Philosophers on Shakespeare (Stanford University Press, forthcoming). He has also translated two books by the Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero, Relating Narratives (Routledge, 2000) and For More Than One Voice (Stanford University Press, 2005). He is currently working on a book project, tentatively entitled "On Love and the Social." The recipient of a Solmsen post-doctoral fellowship and a grant from the Mellon foundation, his writing has appeared in The Oxford Literary Review, Shakespeare Studies, Theatre Journal, the Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies and the Revue Internationale de Philosophie.
Courses Taught:- Shakespeare
- Philosophical Fictions
- Politics, Kinship, Love
Articles on Hannah Arendt, tragedy, Shakespeare, and Plato
Philosophers on Shakespeare (forthcoming)
A Politics of the Scene (2008)
Articles in the Oxford Literary Review, Shakespeare Studies, Theatre Journal, the Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies, and Revue internationale de philosophie
