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Jane Bennett is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and she specializes in the environmental humanities, political philosophy, nature-writing, American romanticism, political rhetorics and affects, and contemporary social thought. She has a double appointment in the Departments of Political Science (political theory) and Comparative Thought and Literature.<\/p>\r\n

Bennett is the author of\u00a0Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman<\/em>\u00a0(2020); Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things<\/em>\u00a0(2010, translated into 13 languages);\u00a0The Enchantment of Modern Life<\/em>\u00a0(2001);\u00a0Thoreau's Nature<\/em>\u00a0(1994), and\u00a0Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment<\/em>, (1987). She is one of the founders of the journal\u00a0Theory & Event,\u00a0<\/em>and former Editor of\u00a0the flagship journal\u00a0Political Theory.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n

She is currently working on notions of a creative cosmos, in ancient Greek thought and in classical Daoist philosophies. Her\u00a0work was profiled in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cThe Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things,\u201d by Morgan Mies, February 28, 2023).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Bennett is an Affiliate Professor of Political Science at the\u00a0University of Copenhagen;\u00a0and was Visiting Professor at Oxford University (Keble College), Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (University of London); the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University; and Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

She has supervised dissertations on a variety of topics, including ecological philosophy and poetics, political thought, materialisms, affective politics, democratic theory, egalitarianism, nonhuman agency, and power and media.<\/p>"],"ecpt_research":["

Interviews with her include: \u201cJane Bennett\u2019s\u00a0Vibrant Matter,<\/em>\u201d interview with Mauro Garofolo in\u00a0Il sole 24 ore;\u00a0<\/em>\"Afterword: Conversations with Jane Bennett,\" with Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight, in\u00a0Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres,\u00a0<\/em>eds. Bandak and Knight; \"(Why) Lucretius Matters: An Interview with Jane Bennett,\"\u00a0K: Revue\u00a0trans-europ\u00e9enne de philosophie et arts<\/em>,\u00a0num\u00e9ro 6, 1\/2021;\u00a0\"Interview with Jane Bennett,\"\u00a0LA+<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape\u00a0\u00a0Architecture<\/em>\u00a0(University of Pennsylvania School of Design, published by ORO Editions, San Francisco, CA), Issue 11, \"Vitality,\" spring 2020; \"Eco-sensibilities:\u00a0 Interview with Jane Bennett,\" Janell Watson,\u00a0Minnesota Review<\/em>, 81, Oct 2013; \"Agency, Nature and Emergent Properties: An Interview with Jane Bennett\" with Gulshan Khan,\u00a0Contemporary Political Theory<\/em>\u00a08.1, February 2009; \"Vibrant Matter - Zero Landscape: Interview with Jane Bennett,\" with Klaus Leonhart,\u00a0Graz ArchitekturMagazin, GAM 07. Unfolding Active Agencies of Landscape,\u00a0<\/em>April 2011.<\/p>"]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/60546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/60546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60548,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/60546\/revisions\/60548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/role?post=60546"},{"taxonomy":"filter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter?post=60546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}