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Shannon Mariotti: Thursday, November 10

The American Literatures and Cultures Workshop and The Social Theory Workshop welcome

Shannon Mariotti, Assistant Professor, Southwestern University

Presenting a chapter from her forthcoming book, Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies, Imminent Critique, and Democratic Pedagogy.

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Shannon Mariotti received her doctorate in political theory from Cornell University in 2006. Her research focuses on 19th century American Transcendental thought and 20th century Critical Social Theory. She has published articles on Adorno, Thoreau, Emerson, and Du Bois in journals such as Political Theory and Telos and volumes such as A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau.

Her book, Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010) reads Thoreau through the theoretical lens of the 20th century critical social theorist, Theodor W. Adorno, to articulate the political value of distancing oneself from the modern public sphere. She received a Brown Junior Fellowship from Southwestern University for the 2010-2011 academic year to work on her new book project, titled Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies, Imminent Critique, and Democratic Pedagogy.

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