Ross Shields is a PhD candidate in German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
He has published an essay titled “The Beauty and Ethics of The Trial: Kafka’s Circumscription of Failure” (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and co-translated a facsimile edition of Paul Klee’s Contributions to a Theory of Pictorial Form (Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2016).
He is currently writing a dissertation on the concept of Zusammenhang in modernist aesthetics, which compares the ideas of Arnold Schönberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Robert Musil against the common background of Hermann von Helmholtz's neo-Kantian epistemology and aesthetics.
