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I teach in the departments of Germanic Studies and of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, and I direct the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities.
My intellectual interests and the courses I teach focus on aesthetic theory, literature and philosophy, and ways of speaking about intensive encounters with art, usually around texts from the European tradition beginning in the eighteenth century. Here is my CV.
Recent work:
"Ending It," The Yale Review, Spring 2026.
"Failing and Falling," On Failing, edited by Amit Chaudhuri (Chennai: Westland Books, 2025), 98 - 110.
“It Begins Around the Eyes (‘In the Penal Colony’),” New Literary History 55 (2024): 355 – 368.
"The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Criticism," MLN 139; 3 (2024): 553 – 566.
Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Excerpt at Google Books. To get a 30% discount when ordering from Chicago’s website, use the code UCPNEW.
Reviews: The Yale Review; Genre; Dagens Nyheter; Review 31; The Point Magazine; Los Angeles Review of Books; TLS; Critical Inquiry; Modern Philology; German Studies Review; The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.
Interview: Liberties."An Immeasurable Field. On Kant's 300th Birthday," The Point Magazine, April 24, 2024.
Stichwörter für die kritische Praxis (Diaphanes, 2023), a volume edited with my colleagues at the Philological Laboratory at FU Berlin.
Poetic Critique: Encounters with Art and Literature (De Gruyter, 2021), edited with Jan Lietz, Jutta Müller-Tamm, and Simon Schleusener (open access).
"A Book That Changed My Mind," a series of conversations with thinkers and scholars, most on video.
Thinking With Kant's Critique of Judgment (Harvard UP, 2017).
How to pronounce my name: mee-SHELL shah-OO-lee
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