Marta Figlerowicz,
“The Apartment and the Piano: Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012)”
Marta Figlerowicz is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University. She is currently working on essays about contemporary queer poetry, Michael Haneke, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Marquis de Sade. With Padma Maitland and Christopher Patrick Miller, she is also editing a collaborative volume on new materialisms and affect theory entitled Object Emotions. She is a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, which she joined as a Junior Fellow in 2013.
Jill Richards
“Two Avant Gardes: London, 1914–Brunnenberg, Tirolo, 1960.”
Jill Richards is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. She works across a number of 20th century genres and national traditions, with a particular emphasis in British modernism. Her book manuscript, Fire-Starters: Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes, is a feminist counter-history of rights and revolution.