My research interests are within the field of literary theory and criticism - both its history, spanning from Heraclitus, through the German Romantics to postmodern discourses, and its current manifestations in continental philosophy and American post-structuralism. Pertinent within this area is my book, The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre (2004).

Within cultural theory and media philosophy, I am specifically interested in constructions of identity and other forms of self-representations. In this relation I have edited two volumes for the Cultural Text Studies series published by Aalborg University Press (CTS1: An Introduction; CTS2: Transatlantic (both appeared at the end of 2005)) and wrote a book on film studies Between Gazes: Feminist, Queer, and 'Other' Films (2009).

n general, my teaching and writing covers related areas such as the essay (both philosophical and literary), and the prose poem. In this area I have published a monograph on a contemporary poet: Pulverizing Portraits: Lynn Emanuel's Poetry of Becoming ( 2010).

My current book project, In Cite: Epistemologies of Creative Writing reflects a continuation of my interest in genre and poetics, and extends an argument about the use of various strategies of creative writing within the academia. Once more, I return to generic aspects of literary concepts, such as the fragment, the aphorism, the epitaph, and the epigraph, but this time the aim is not only to perform these concepts per se, but also to devise epistemic rules for such performative acts that combine an autobiographical mode with formal philosophy and poetry.

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Other interests include Renaissance literature, the Italian 'trecentisti' writers, esp. Dante and Petrarca, and Shakespeare.

Some of my other publications have appeared in journals dedicated to studies in literary theory, cultural theory, cross-aesthetics, and the borderlines between literature, philosophy, art history, and theology.

Authored Books

In Cite: Epistemologies of Creative Writing

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Pulverizing Portraits: Lynn Emanuel's Poetry of Becoming

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Between Gazes: Feminist, Queer and 'Other' films

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The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre

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