About
Ari Ofengenden teaches at Tulane University and works in comparative literature, literary and social theory. For upwards of twenty years he has thought, taught, and written about ideology and the relations between ideas and power. His articles range across modern literature, psychoanalysis, discourse theory, aesthetics, capitalism, and culture.
He earned an M.A. in cognitive psychology, a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Haifa University, and did post-doctoral work at Tübingen University. He has taught at George Washington University and Oberlin College. He is an Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Books
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- The Passion for Absence in Abraham Shlonsky
Magnes, Hebrew University Press, 2010
Selected Publications
- "Monotheism the Incomplete Revolution: Narrating the Event in Freud's and Assmann's Moses," Symplokē, 2015.
- "Agency, Desire, and Power in Schnitzler's A Dream Novel and Kubrick's Adaptation Eyes Wide Shut," CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2015.
- "Language, Body, Dystopia: The Passion for the Real in Orly Castel-Bloom's Dolly City," The Comparatist, 2014.
Teaching
Recent and selected courses at Tulane:
- Introduction to Global Literature
- Ideology and Belief in Everyday Life
- Desire, Ideology, Interpretation
- Violence in Twentieth-Century Literature
- Postmodern and Contemporary Literature
- Anxiety, Depression & Culture
- World Religions
- Nazism, Fascism & the Alt-Right
- Translation: Practice and Theory
Editorship & Service
- Series Editor, Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, Purdue University Press (2016–)
- Chief Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Purdue University Press (2017–2019)
- Elected Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2018–)
- Member: MLA, ACLA, ICLA, European Association of Social Anthropologists