Associate Professor of German Studies.  Articles on philosophy (Spinoza, Nietzsche, Heidegger), political theory (Lenin, Gramsci), and visual culture (Velázquez, Worringer, Feininger, Cronenberg, virtual reality). 
Book:  Nietzsche's Corps/e: Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy, or, the Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life (Duke University Press, 1996). 
Research and teaching interests: intersections between premodern philosophy and postmodern junk culture: Spinoza reception (Strauss, Althusser, Deleuze, Negri); communist cultural and political theory.

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