Summer started following the work of John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London, Film and Television Studies.
Summer started following the journal Film-Philosophy.
Summer added a paper
Graduate Student, Philosophy
Graduate Student and Instructor
Villanova College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Thesis Title: Siegfried Kracauer’s Girlie Motif: An Inconspicuous Feminist Philosophy
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Dr. John Carvalho
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About
I am a graduate student and instructor in the department of philosophy at Villanova University. I began my doctoral studies in philosophy having completed an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Social and Political Thought at York University in Canada. Prior to that, my undergraduate study in philosophy was supplemented with classes at the Graduate Center for Theory, Culture and Politics at Trent University, also in Canada. As a result, I have training in the history of philosophy as well as semiotic theory, aesthetics and feminist theory. This backdrop informs my current research.
My dissertation proposal, entitled "Siegfried Kracauer’s Girlie Motif: An Inconspicuous Feminist Philosophy" aims to unfurl the controversial trope of the girl in Siegfried Kracauer’s Weimar-era cultural criticism. Most feminist scholars have dismissed Kracauer’s girl as an offensive blemish upon an otherwise insightful body of work. My dissertation disputes this interpretation. I posit that Kracauer invokes the girl in order to critique the new vision of femininity he sees unfolding in modern Germany. I suggest that Kracauer’s trope is a vulgar caricature by design, an instrument of social commentary that is specifically concerned with emergent definitions of femininity.
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