Overview
Maya Kronfeld is Assistant Professor of Theory in the Literature Program at Duke University, with secondary appointments in the Philosophy Department and the Music Department. After completing her PhD in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, Kronfeld was the Cotsen fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows. Her book project, Spontaneous Form: Philosophy, Literature, Jazz integrates studies of literary Romanticism and Modernism with Kantian and post-Kantian approaches to the philosophy of …
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Literature
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2023 - Present
Literature,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Music
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2024 - Present
Music,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
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2024 - Present
Philosophy,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Listening, Elsewhere and Otherwise A Collective Listening to Shana L. Redmond’s “The Dark Prelude”
Journal Article Journal of Popular Music Studies · December 1, 2024 Full text Cite"Prufrock" between Acquaintance and Description: Bertrand Russell and T. S. Eliot
Journal Article Philosophy and Literature · April 1, 2023 This article recovers a submerged philosophical debate between Bertrand Russell’s theory of descriptions and T. S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Russell’s concern with immediate experience (“acquaintance”) underscores a dilemma troubling liter ... Full text CiteWhat Is Holding Us Together? David Hume, Edgar Allan Poe and the Problem of Association
Journal Article Review of English Studies · November 1, 2022 Poe's experimental fiction revitalizes Hume's ambivalent empiricism, the complexities of which were sometimes obscured in the philosopher's nineteenth-century American reception. Poe's 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' broaches formally the question of how one t ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of California, Berkeley ·
2020
Ph.D.