Affiliation: Arizona State University
Keywords: Critical Theory - Posthumanism - Adorno
Natalie Lozinski-Veach is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Cultural Studies at Arizona State University, where she also an affiliated faculty member in the Center for Jewish Studies and a Senior Sustainability Scholar in the College of Global Futures. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and works in English, German, and Polish. Her research explores the points of contact between literature and critical theory as well as those between humans and other animals, focusing in particular on twentieth and twenty-first century prose and poetry. Her theoretical interests include the Frankfurt School, Holocaust and trauma studies, deconstruction, animal studies, and posthumanism. In addition to these topics, she also teaches courses on gender and disability studies, as well as speculative fiction and the environmental humanities. Together with Jason Groves, she co-edited a special issue of The Germanic Review, “Reading Paul Celan Today.” In addition to multiple papers on Celan, she has published on Esther Kinsky, W. G. Sebald, Bruno Schulz, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Theodor W. Adorno. Currently, she is working on a book called Creaturely Expressions: Animals, Language, and Poetry after Auschwitz, in which she traces how philosophers and poets reimagine language beyond the human in response to the Shoah.