Robert Weston

Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities; Director, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Gender and Sexuality Studies, Human Rights

Academic Expertise: Human Rights

Area of Specialization: 18th-century European literature and cultural history

Biography:

B.A., University of Florida; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Publications in Social Text, Rethinking Marxism, n/or; Invited Lecturer, Guggenheim Museum, NY (2009); Günther-Findel Research Fellow, Herzog August Bibliothek (2004–05); Research Fellowship, DAAD (2000–01). Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University (2005). Ottaway International Fellow, Director of Faculty and Curricular Development, Bard Honor's College, Al-Quds University, West Bank. At Bard since 2005.

Interests:

Research Interests: Primary field: the European Enlightenment, popular enlightenment, and social reform; history of education. Secondary fields: Walter Benjamin ; the Frankfurt School; theories of gift and sacrifice; Foucault; discourse analysis

Teaching Interests: Enlightenment cultural history; 18th-century intellectual history; the history of education; the culture and politics of modernity; philosophical anthropology

Other Interests: Religious experience (Pietism, Quietism, Mysticism); Modernism, Expressionism, the historical avant garde, general economy/globalization/world systems; the consumer society; philosophical anthropology; queer theory; 18th-century literature; radical formalism; gender and sexuality studies; First-Year Seminar

Contact:

Phone: 845-758-7203
E-mail: weston@bard.edu