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Neal Alfred Allar ,Doctor

  Neal Alfred Allar obtained his PhD in French literature from Cornell University in 2016. His dissertation is entitled “Poetry of Relation: Édouard Glissant, French Modernism, and the Poetics of Opacity.” His research interests include Francophone Caribbean and Sub-Saharan African poetry and poetics, the relationship between postcolonial poetics and French modernist poetry, and theories of the “postcolonial lyric.” He has published in the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, the French journal of Rimbaud studies, Parade sauvage, and Nineteenth-Century French Studies. He has also served on the editorial board of Diacritics, which is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Stephanie Anderson ,Doctor

  Stephanie Anderson obtained her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2016. Her dissertation is entitled “Hope in Dates: Towards a Calendrical Poetics, 1935-85.” Her teaching and research interests include poetry and poetics, twentieth century American literature, book history, small press publishing, and creative writing. Her articles include “‘Crowded Air’: Previous Modernisms in some 1964 New York Little Magazines,” nonsite. org’s B-Side Modernism, Issue 15 (2015), and “Larry Eigner's Archives in Flight,” forthcoming in Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner. She has published a number of poetry collections including Lands of Yield (Horse Less Press 2017), If You Love Error So Love Zero (forthcoming, Trembling Pillow Press 2018), and In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments (Horse Less Press 2013).

Megan Steffen ,Doctor(林玉屏)

  Megan Ste en (林玉屏) is a sociocultural anthropologist with a PhD in anthropology from Princeton University. She conducts ethnographic eldwork in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province in the People’s Republic of China, and has a topical focus on economic anthropology. Her dissertation-based book manuscript examines how accidents and unpredictability in uence the way people make decisions and maintain social relationships. Her second project is an investigation of fear and discourses of fear in the PRC. She is currently working on collaborative projects about translation, sexual violence in anthropology, and theories of crowd and group formation.

Elizabeth Mathie ,Doctor

  Elizabeth Mathie specializes in early modern English literature, with a particular emphasis on drama. Her current work focuses on representations of training (of both animals and humans) in early modern England, especially in instructional manuals and on the stage. She has interests in early modern English drama and poetry, contemporaneous prescriptive literature, humanist pedagogy, early English colonialism, and animal studies. Her current book project, Early Modern English Drama and the Reinvention of Mastery, contends that rhetorics of training – and, speci cally, the conditions under which prescriptive authors advise masters to use love and mutuality rather than force to secure the obedience of their subordinates – are central to a complete understanding of the nuances of power and its operations in early modern England. Before beginning as a postdoctoral fellow in the Tsinghua-Michigan Society of Fellows, she received her PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan.

Samuel Heidepriem ,Doctor

  Samuel Heidepriem joined the IWLC after completing his PhD in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at University of Michigan in 2017. His research areas are 18th to 20th century German literature and philosophy, political theory, and intellectual history. He is currently adapting his dissertation into a book on the reception history of German Idealism in postmodern philosophy and the signi cance of this relationship for contemporary political theory. A second book project approaches German political philosophy from the 1790s as an early theory of modern bureaucracy. Samuel also has several articles in preparation on postwar German and Austrian ction, including Peter Weiss, Thomas Bernhard, and W.G. Sebald.

Bican Polat ,Doctor

  Bican Polat received his joint-degree PhD in Anthropology and Intellectual History from Johns Hopkins University in 2016. He studies how psychiatric practices and knowledge systems intersect with politics, culture, and technological media, with a primary focus on the Anglo-American world during the twentieth century. His book project, “The Emotional Bond”: The Psychiatric Normalization of Parent-Child Relationships in Late Modernity, explores these dynamics in the context of the history of psychiatric ideas about the maternal bond, tracking the growth of investigative communities that have contributed to the formation of parent-child relationships as a medico-scienti c specialty. Drawing on archival and ethnographic methods, and focusing on expert knowledge practices, this project reconstructs the development of attachment research from its early origins in interwar psychiatry and psychoanalysis to the most recent approaches in behavioral neuroscience and cross-cultural psychology. His work received the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Center for Advanced Media Studies, and has appeared in publications including Parallax and Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

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