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• BA, Philosophy and Ancient Languages, University of Toronto
• MA, Egyptology and Assyriology, Yale University
• PhD, Philosophy, University of Toronto

Rebecca Comay is professor of philosophy and comparative literature, a core member of the Literature and Critical Theory Program (Victoria College) , and an associate member of the Germanic Languages and Literatures Department and the Centre for Jewish Studies . Her research interests include Hegel and 19th century German philosophy; theatricality; Marx and Marxism (including Frankfurt school); psychoanalysis; contemporary French philosophy; trauma and memory; iconoclasm and destruction of art; contemporary art and art criticism; Proust and Beckett. She is currently working on a book on the temporality of deadlines, as well as a project on dramaturgy and dialectic.

For more information on current research (including links to documents), see Prof. Comay’s  academia.edu page .

Research Interests:

Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, Marxism, Philosophy of Literature, Social and Political Philosophy

Publications:

• The Dash — the Other Side of Absolute Knowing, co-authored with Frank Ruda  ( MIT, 2018)
• Hegel and Resistance, coedited with Bart Zandvoort (Bloomsbury, 2018)
• Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution  (Stanford 2011)
• Lost in the Archives  (editor) (2002)
• Endings: Questions of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger  (coeditor with John McCumber)  (Northwestern, 1999)

Selected articles

•  “Testament of the Revolution,” in Mosaic ( 2017)
• “Material Remains,” Oxford Literary Review (2017)
• “Hypochondria and its Discontents, or, the Geriatric Sublime,” in Critique and Crisis (Fall 2016). Open access link.
• “Resistance and repetition: Hegel and Freud,” in  Research in Phenomenology (fall, 2015)
• “Paradoxes of Lament: Benjamin and Hamlet” in Ilit Ferber and Paula Schwebel, eds., Lament in Jewish Thought (2014)
• “Defaced Statues: Iconoclasm and Idealism in Hegel’s Aesthetics ,” October 149 (2014)
• “Hegel’s Last Words: Mourning and Melancholia at the end of the  Phenomenology ,” in J. Nichols and A. Swiffen, eds.,  The Ends of History  ( 2012)
• “Proust’s Remains,” in  October  144 (2013)
• “ Krapp and other Matters,” in T. J. Morres, Atom Egoyan: Interviews  (2010)
• “Transmission, Translation, Trauma,” in  Idealistic Studies  (2008)
• “Impressions: Proust, Photography, Trauma,” in  Discourse  (2009)
• “Adorno avec Sade,” in  differences , special issue on critical theory and gender, ed. Wendy Brown (2006)
• “The sickness of tradition: Benjamin between melancholia and fetishism” in  Walter Benjamin Studies  (2006)
• “Materialist Mutations of the  Bilderverbot ,” in Walter Benjamin Studies  (2005)
• “Dead Right: Hegel and the Terror,” in  South Atlantic Quarterly  (2004)
• “Benjamin and the Ambiguities of Romanticism” in  Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin , ed. David Ferris (2004)

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