| Graduate Fellows 2010-2011 |
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Jonathan Cottrell received his B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, before joining NYU's Philosophy Department in the Fall of 2005. Now a Ph.D. candidate, he plans to spend his Fellowship year with the Humanities Initiative writing a dissertation chapter about David Hume's view of the self, which will put forward an interpretation of Hume's claim that "the identity which we ascribe to the mind of man is only a fictitious one," and use this interpretation to defend a new account of the reasons why Hume would later come to retract his own view of the self in a notoriously obscure passage of his Appendix to 'A Treatise of Human Nature.' Jonathan also plans to begin work on a paper explaining and evaluating the conception of the imagination that informs Hume's conception of the fictitious.
Michael Gallope received a BA in Visual Arts and a BM in Piano from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where he was recipient of the John Elvin Piano Prize. He is presently a Ph.D. candidate in Historical Musicology at NYU and a recipient of an Advanced Certificate in Poetics and Theory. His current research centers on the philosophy of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His dissertation, entitled “Immanence and Singularity in Modernist Philosophies of Music, 1910-1980” is a four-part comparative study of the way Bloch, Adorno, Jankélévitch, and Deleuze each renew the Hegelian tradition of speculative thought in relation to shifting ontologies of what constitutes the proper foundation of musical technique. He has published articles on Cavell, Deleuze, Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and the phenomenology of music. His future projects include an archival study of modernist self-consciousness in the work of Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and an analytical and theoretical study on the role of chant in experiences of the demand for political change.
Jessica Goethals is a PhD candidate in the Department of Italian Studies. She completed her BA at Northwestern University and her MA at NYU. Her areas of interest include fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italian literature and intellectual history, prophecy and apocalypse, the intersection between Spanish and Italian literature, and the twentieth-century novel. Her dissertation, "Renovatio: The Literature of Revival and Reform after the Sack of Rome (1527)" explores representations of the apocalyptic fall of the Eternal City and attempts to rejuvenate Italian letters in its aftermath. She is also co-editor, with Valerie McGuire and Gaoheng Zhang, of the proceedings of the 2006 NYU graduate conference, "Power and Image in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).
Scott Selberg earned his BA in Art History from Williams College and his MA in Communication Studies from UNC Chapel Hill. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. His research and teaching interests include visual culture, critical theory, cultural memory, science and technology studies, and cultural studies. His dissertation explores the visual culture of Alzheimer's disease, focusing in particular on the intersections of cognition, age, and bioethics. Scott also has a background in film and radio production and as a curator and programmer at film festivals and museums.
Aaron Tugendhaft is pursuing a Ph.D. in Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University, with a focus on the Hebrew Bible and its ancient near eastern context. His current research centers on the relationship between theology and politics in the myth of Baal from the ancient Mediterranean city of Ugarit. He also teaches courses on political philosophy and religion at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he has been a part-time faculty member since 2007. In 2008, he curated the exhibition Idol Anxiety for the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Before coming to NYU, he received a B.A. in Art History and an M.A. in Social Thought, both from the University of Chicago, and studied philosophy and Jewish thought respectively at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In his spare time, he makes handmade books with The Crumpled Press and attends operas at the Met.
Matthew is pursuing a joint Ph.D. in History and French Studies. His dissertation, “Mendésisme and Modernization: The Making of an Indissoluble Association in Post-Liberation France, 1944-1975,” considers the origins and social uses of the remarkable proliferation of public celebrations of Pierre Mendès France, the Prime Minister of France for a mere seven-and-a-half months in the mid-1950s. Rather than the traditional biographical focus on Mendès, this work contends that the so-called “mendésistes” played a key, and under-appreciated, role in the diffusion of a potent postwar discourse of “modernization”: a kind of magical thinking associated with technocratic expert leadership, the panacea of productivity, and the elevation of the economy into the master-realm from which all other social change would necessarily flow. Matthew earned a B.A. from McGill University and an M.A. at the University of Toronto. He was awarded a Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship for 2010-2011 and joins the Humanities Initiative as an Honorary Fellow.
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Jonathan Cottrell
Michael Gallope
Jessica Goethals
Scott Selberg
Aaron Tugendhaft
Graduate Fellows Deadline Monday, November 7, 2011 Graduate Fellows by Year |
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Graduate Fellows 2010-2011
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