Bill HolderEthan Kleinberg, professor of history and letters, will serve as the next director of the Center for Humanities (CHUM), beginning July 1, 2012. Rob Rosenthal, provost, vice president for Academic Affairs, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, made the announcement in Novemeber. Kleinberg has served Wesleyan as director of the College of Letters and director of the Vassar-Wesleyan Program in Paris. He is currently associate editor of History & Theory and will be assuming the role of executive editor in the coming year. Kleinberg's wide-ranging scholarly work spans across the fields of history, philosophy, comparative literature and religion. His current research interests…
Olivia DrakeEthan Kleinberg, associate professor of history, associate professor of letters is spending the year as director of the Vassar-Wesleyan Paris Program and an invited scholar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. During the Fall 2010 semester, Kleinberg delivered two lectures based on his current book project, The Myth of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas is a French Jewish philosopher who turned to the use of Jewish (more…)
Ethan Kleinberg, associate professor of history, associate professor of letters, is the author of “Freud and Levinas: Talmud and Psychoanalysis Before the Letter,” published in The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud, 2010.