M.A., University of Kansas
Email: rjones@uci.edu
A native of Kansas with a B.A. in Communication Studies and Linguistics and an M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures, both from the University of Kansas, this hybrid Jayhawk/Anteater has realized that she is more tortoise than anything else, attested by, among other things, the fairly lengthy durée of her Lehrjahre. But as this tortoise is rounding third base and plodding along on the home stretch, she sees the truth in the words by one of her mentors, that "all theory is autobiographical." Thus her dissertation sees the intersection of Heinrich von Kleist's theorizations on the "gradual completion of thoughts while speaking [with (an)Other]," staged by W.G. Sebald in his hybrid work Austerlitz, with Sigmund Freud's body of psychoanalytic writings, to bear witness to differends—French theorist Jean-François Lyotard's term to designate a kind of (often insurmountable) speechlessness in the face of eine unerhörte reality—and to explore thereby a mode of therapeutic and political intervention that entails a certain kind of listening—also known as the art of textual exchange/conversation oder "d[ie] Hebeammenkunst der Gedanken, wie Kant sie nennt" (Kleist, ÜdaVdGbR[meA]).
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