Neil Saccamano
Associate Professor
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., Comparative Literature - Johns Hopkins University
M.A., Comparative Literature - SUNY at Buffalo
B.A., English
Bio
Neil Saccamano is Associate Professor of English and currently Chair of Comparative Literature at Cornell. He has published on eighteenth-century British and French literature and philosophy--including Swift’s allegorical satire, Addison’s sublime aesthetics, the politics of sentiment in Laclos, rhetoric and consensus in Rousseau--as well as on critical theory. Most recently, he has written on faith, reason, and Enlightenment in Derrida and has co-edited a collection of essays on Politics and the Passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. His current research centers on the conflictive values of force in relation to political and aesthetic community.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Eighteenth-century literature
- Eighteenth-century moral, aesthetic, and political theory
- Cosmopolitanism and Enlightenment
- Print culture and the public sphere
- Post-structrualist and critical theory
Current Projects
- The Aesthetics and Politics of Force in the Eighteenth Century (book manuscript)