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Roy Sellars

Roy Sellars

Roy Sellars

PhD

Sekretariat Prof. Robinson

Qualitätsentwicklung
Tellstrasse 2

9000 St. Gallen
Fields of research

Literature and Philosophy

English Literature from 1600

Further fields of research

History of rhetoric

Education studies

Deconstruction

Music and Philosophy

Teaching Activities

At HSG, courses taught on the history, theory and practice of rhetoric

(written and oral); on Deleuze and Guattari in the context of

organisation studies; and on art and ideology (with Ulrich Schmid)

Projects

Monograph project on the poetry of John Milton; collective project on Jacques Derrida’s Glas; bibliographical and related projects on Harold Bloom; collective project on calculation and quantification in higher education

Affiliations

Swiss Association of University Teachers of English; Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies; International Association for Philosophy and Literature; International Network for the Study of Lyric; international reading group on Jacques Derrida; research group on materiality, University of Geneva; research group on the Anthropocene, University of Southern Denmark

Additional Information
  • Degrees held: B. A. (English), M. A. (English) and D. Phil. (English), Oxford University
  • Teaching or research positions held at: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Philipps-Universität Marburg; Département de langue et littérature anglaises, Université de Genève; Society for the Humanities and Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University; Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore; Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College; Département d’anglais, Université de Lausanne; English programme, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding
  • Research profile: literature and philosophy; poetry; history of rhetoric; deconstruction; negative dialectics; Harold Bloom; music and philosophy; materiality and waste
  • 2009-12 Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Alan Robinson, University of St. Gallen
  • 2012-23 Research Associate, University of St. Gallen
  • 2017-23 English Department Administrator, University of St. Gallen
  • 2017- Guest researcher, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

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