Overview
Carson Welch is a doctoral candidate in Literature at Duke University. He works at the intersection of literature and philosophy, with a particular focus on critical theory and the Anglophone modernist novel. His dissertation, “Revisionaries: Global Modernism and the Critique of Historical Reason, 1885-1965,” shows how a seemingly antiquated philosophical genre—the philosophy of history—persisted in modernist novels grappling with the long decline of European empires. Carson’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and Radical Philosophy. He is also the editor of Fredric Jameson’s lectures on French theory (The Years of Theory, Verso, 2024) and modern German thought (Verso, forthcoming).
PhD candidate, Duke University
Program in Literature
AB, summa cum laude, Princeton University
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Publications can be found at Academia.edu/CarsonWelch.