| C. Phil., UCLA, 2009; A.M., History, Stanford University, 2001; MALS (Liberal Studies), Reed College, 1996; A.B., History, University of California, Davis, 1993 |
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| E-mail: rjholt@ucla.edu |
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| Subfield |
Modern and Early Modern Europe; Intellectual and Cultural; Comparative Literature
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| Research |
Enlightenment & Romanticism; political thought; history of philosophy; and, theories of the self. Dissertation topic: empire, global cultural contact, and conceptions of sociability in the late Enlightenment.
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| Publications |
"The Absent Ground of Meaning in Wirrungen, Irrungen," in Cultural Codes in Flux: New Approaches to Theodor Fontane, ed. Marion Doebeling (Camden House, 2000).
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| Advisors |
Peter Reill
David Sabean
Anthony Pagden
Patrick Coleman
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| Conference Presentations |
"Savages Among Philosophers: The Politics of Progress in the Scottish Enlightenment's Science of Man," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, Virginia 2009
"Childhood Memory and/as the Uncanny in German Romanticism," Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, The Netherlands 1996
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