Dr Rachel Malkin

Dr Rachel Malkin is the current Isenberg Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College and has held posts in the Faculties of English at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Her research interests include 20th and 21st Century US fiction, philosophy in relation to American culture, afterlives of American romanticism, experiential aesthetics, the politics of the ‘ordinary’, theories of criticism and the role of the critic, and intellectual history.

Her first book (forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press) considers the work of the American philosopher Stanley Cavell in context, alongside the writing of literary contemporaries. She has also published articles and reviews on American poetry, Cavell, and film. Projects in progress include articles on the American investments of literary criticism’s ‘positive’ affects and stances, and on Claudia Rankine’s uses of conversation and the experiential.