Academic career
- 2016- Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
- Ph.D. American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Graduation Date: August 2016
Research Interest
- American intellectual and cultural history
- history of higher education
- global history of the humanities
Publications (selection):
Monograph
- September 2021 Deconstruction: An American Institution, University of Chicago Press
Publications with peer review process
- 2023 “Theory as a ‘Cognitive Good’ and the ‘New Spirit of (American) Capitalism’,” Amerikastudien / American Studies, Forthcoming
- 2022 “Challenging Humanism: Jews, Theory, and Yale During the Last Three Decades of the Twentieth Century.” In: Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society, Forthcoming
- 2022 “Theorizing and Practicing History as the Metabolization of the World: A Conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.” In: History and Theory 61:1, 124-139
- 2020 “’The Brides of Deconstruction and Criticism’ and the Transformation of Feminism in the North American Academy.” In: Modern Intellectual History 17:2, 413-442
Publications without peer review process
Essays
- 2022 “Well Protected in the Surveillance State/Wohlbehütet im Überwachungsstaat,” Schweizer Monat: Die Autorenzeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur ( 1094) March, 10-13
- 2021 “Schwindel der Gegenwart: Leben in Shenzhen,” trans. Christian Demand and Ekkehard Knörer, Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 75:5, 41-52
- 2021 “American Theory,” trans. Christian Demand and Ekkehard Knörer, Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 75:3, 29-41