Chris studied comparative literature and history in Chicago, Paris, and Hamburg, earning a BA from Northwestern University. In the 2022-2023 academic year, they are teaching political and moral theory from Plato to the present as a Preceptor in Contemporary Civilization. Chris’s dissertation studies the ambition among modernist writers to make of literature a “way of life" by offering a rational reconstruction of this project through close readings of key texts by Rilke, Kafka, Walser, and Susman. Other interests include German literature, especially poetry, theater, and song, critical theory and the history of philosophy, rhetorical theory, theories of reading, and the social project of literary criticism.
