Philip Lorenz
Assistant Professor
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- New York University
Ph.D. - New York University
M.Phil. - University of California at Berkeley
B.A.
Bio
Philip Lorenz received his Ph.D. from New York University. Before joining the English department at Cornell, he was a Bradley Visiting Assistant Professor in the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses primarily on English and Spanish literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and his areas of interest include Theories of Sovereignty, Political Theology, Psychoanalysis, Poetics and Theory, and Philosophy. He is currently completing his first book, The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama (under contract with Fordham University Press).
Research and Teaching Interests
- Renaissance drama (English and Spanish)
- Modern drama
- Political Theology
- Sovereignty
- Poetics and Theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Literature and Philosophy
Current Projects
- The Tears of Sovereignty (book manuscript)
- Political-Theology, Drama, and International Law