Post-Doc, The Humanities Center
Humanities Research Fellow
Emory University
Thesis Title: Literary Paradox: Figures of Displacement and Disguise in Carroll, Kafka, Nietzsche, Blanchot, and Deleuze
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Prof. Jill Robbins
Prof. Gregg Lambert |
About
Eugene (Brent) Young’s doctoral research focused on paradox in literature, religion, and philosophy, and he specializes in the works of twentieth-century thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Maurice Blanchot. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature and Religion from Emory University in 2010, and received his B.A. with distinction from Syracuse University in 2003 after completing a thesis on the experimental work of the contemporary musician Steve Reich. His dissertation, entitled "Literary Paradox: Figures of Displacement and Disguise in Carroll, Kafka, Nietzsche, Blanchot, and Deleuze", explores the relationship between literary figuration and philosophical ideas in a variety of genres. Currently, he is a Research Fellow at the SU Humanities Center and teaches part-time in Philosophy and English at Le Moyne College. Eugene is also co-authoring The Deleuze & Guattari Dictionary for Continuum, and his recent interests continue to involve intersections between Deleuze and Blanchot, with a focus on Foucault’s contested theory of “biopolitics” (specifically, the paradoxical relationship between “life” and “power”).
