{"id":213,"date":"2017-11-01T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/grll\/?post_type=people&#038;p=213"},"modified":"2024-05-01T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:41:41","slug":"william-egginton","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/directory\/william-egginton\/","title":{"rendered":"William Egginton"},"featured_media":294,"template":"","role":[10436],"filter":[10490],"acf":[],"post_meta_fields":{"_edit_last":["433"],"_edit_lock":["1714559962:433"],"ecpt_people_alpha":["Egginton"],"ecpt_position":["Department Chair, Decker Professor in the Humanities, Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute"],"ecpt_degrees":["PhD, Stanford University "],"ecpt_expertise":["Spanish and Latin American literatures, comparative European literature and thought"],"ecpt_phone":["410-516-7510"],"ecpt_email":["egginton@jhu.edu"],"ecpt_office":["Gilman 470"],"ecpt_website":["https:\/\/www.williamegginton.com\/"],"ecpt_bio":["<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities, chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/\">Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute<\/a> at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of multiple books, including <em>How the World Became a Stage<\/em> (2003), <em>Perversity and Ethics<\/em> (2006), <em>A Wrinkle in History<\/em> (2007), <em>The Philosopher\u2019s Desire<\/em> (2007), <em>The Theater of Truth<\/em> (2010), <em>In Defense of Religious Moderation<\/em> (2011), <em>The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World<\/em> (2016), <em>The Splintering of the American Mind<\/em> (2018), and <em>The Rigor of Angels<\/em> (2023), which was named to several best of 2023 lists, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is co-author with David Castillo of <em>Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media<\/em> (2017) and <em>What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature<\/em> (2022). His latest book, on the philosophical, psychoanalytic, and surrealist dimensions of the work of Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, was published in January 2024.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":["<h4>Selected Books<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><em>The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity, Inequality, and the Future of Community<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2018)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Reviewed in <em>The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0<em>National Review<\/em>, and elsewhere; featured on PBS\u2019s \u201cThe Open Mind.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><em>Medialogies: Inflationary Media and the Crisis of Reality<\/em>. Co-authored with David Castillo\u00a0(New York: Bloomsbury, 2016)<\/li>\r\n<li><em>The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Bloomsbury, 2016)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Reviewed in <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, <em>The Wall Street<\/em> <em>Journal,\u00a0The Guardian, The Times of London<\/em>, and elsewhere; starred review in <em>Booklist<\/em>; translations forthcoming in Taiwan, China, Turkey, Greece, and Spain.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><em>In Defense of Religious Moderation <\/em>(New York:\u00a0Columbia University Press, 2011)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Reviewed in <em>The Newark Star-Ledger<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><em>The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)baroque Aesthetics<\/em>\u00a0(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Reviewed in\u00a0<em>CLIO<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Modern Language Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Comparative Literature Studies<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Revista Hisp\u00e1nica Moderna<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Teatro: Revista de estudios culturales<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<h4>Selected Edited and Translated Books<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Lisa Block de Behar, <em>Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation<\/em>, second edition and translation\u00a0(Albany: SUNY Press, 2014).<\/li>\r\n<li>Co-editor with David E. Johnson, <em>Thinking With Borges\u00a0<\/em>(Aurora, CO: The Davies Group Publishers, 2009)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4><strong>Selected Articles and Chapters<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\u201cHispanism and Humanitas in the Market University.\u201d Co-authored with David Castillo. <em>Hispanic Issues Online<\/em>\u00a06 (2016).<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201cAffective Disorder.\u201d <em>diacritics<\/em> 40.2 (2012): 24-43.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201cReligion \u2013 Conspiracy \u2013 Code.\u201d <em>MLN<\/em> 126.4 (2011): 32-43.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201cOn Radical Atheism, Chronolibidinal Reading, and Impossible Desires.\u201d <em>CR: The New Centennial Review<\/em> 9.1 (2009): 191-209.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201cThe Baroque as a Problem of Thought.\u201d <em>PMLA<\/em> 124.1 (2009): 143-49.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201cPerformance and Presence, Analysis of a Modern Aporia.\u201d <em>Journal of Literary Theory<\/em> 1.1 (2007): 3-18<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201cThe Corporeal Image and the New World Baroque.\u201d <em>SAQ<\/em> 106.1 (2007): 107-128.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>"],"ecpt_cv":[""],"_thumbnail_id":["294"],"ecpt_books_cond":["on"],"_oembed_1c2c203419a110b7df67a7b61830bc23":["{{unknown}}"],"ecpt_research":["<p>Egginton\u2019s contributions to early modern scholarship have focused on the importance for cultural and intellectual history of the rise of the great theatrical institutions in Europe, most notably in Spain. His theory of theatricality posits the stage as a fundamental medium for the transmission of ideas that contributed to structuring a way of conceiving of and inhabiting space peculiar to early modernity. Theatricality theory paved the way for his later work on baroque and neobaroque culture, which spanned cultural production in the Americas as well as in Europe. In recent years he has increasingly written for a broader public in venues such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/17\/opinion\/code-foreign-language.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, and in books for the general reading public. In this way the form as well as the content of his work have developed into a full-throated appeal for the essential role of the humanities\u2014particularly literature and literary studies\u2014in society today.<\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":["<p>Professor Egginton teaches courses on a range of topics, including Spanish and Latin American literature, literary theory, and the relation between literature and philosophy. Below is a partial list of his recent courses:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Great Books at Hopkins<\/li>\r\n<li>The Cosmic Imagination<\/li>\r\n<li>Baroque Literature and Thought<\/li>\r\n<li>Horror in Spanish Literature<\/li>\r\n<li>The Invention of Fiction<\/li>\r\n<li>Borges, Derrida, Heidegger and the Paradoxes of Perception<\/li>\r\n<li>Don Quixote<\/li>\r\n<li>The Literature of Existence<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"],"ecpt_extra_tab_title":["Media"],"ecpt_extra_tab":["<p>In addition to his scholarly work, Egginton also contributes frequently to <a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/william-egginton\/?mcubz=0\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> and other periodicals.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/hermeneutics-and-the-framing-of-truth\/\">Hermeneutics and the Framing of \u2019Truth,\u2019<\/a>\u201d <em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>, May 5, 2020.<\/li>\r\n<li>A Review of: Martin H\u00e4gglund\u2019s <i>This Life<\/i> and Yi-Ping Ong\u2019s <i>The Art of<\/i><em> Being<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Believer<\/em>, January 14, 2020.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/ben-lerners-intoxicating-honesty\/\">Ben Lerner\u2019s Intoxicating Honesty<\/a>,\u201d <em>Public Books<\/em>, October 2, 2019.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/17\/opinion\/code-foreign-language.html\">Is Computer Code a Foreign Language?<\/a>\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, March 17, 2019.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/31\/opinion\/frankensteins-monster-halloween.html\">What Frankenstein\u2019s Monster Really Looks Like<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, October 31, 2018.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/06\/opinion\/grievance-studies-hoax.html\">What the \u2018Grievance Studies\u2019 Hoax Really Shows<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, October 6, 2018.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/the-left-wing-case-against-tenure\/\">The Left-Wing Case Against Tenure<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, September 30, 2018.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/the-splintering-of-the-student-mind\/\">The Splintering of the Student Mind<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, August 29, 2018.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/theres-no-such-thing-as-reality-and-its-a-good-thing-too\/\">There\u2019s No Such Thing as Reality (And It\u2019s a Good Thing Too)<\/a>\u201d <em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>, November 10, 2016.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/23\/opinion\/letter-from-austria-is-europes-tolerant-society-backfiring.html?mcubz=0\">Letter from Austria: Europe\u2019s \u2018Tolerant Society\u2019 Backfiring<\/a>.\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, May 23, 2016.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thephilosophicalsalon.com\/what-are-we-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-zombies\/\">What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Zombies?<\/a>\u201d <em>The Philosophical Salon<\/em>, July 6, 2015.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/26\/dreamboat-vampires-and-zombie-capitalists\/\">Dreamboat Vampires and Zombie Capitalists<\/a>.\u201d Co-authored with David Castillo. <em>The New York Times<\/em>, October 26, 2014.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/28\/borges-and-the-paradox-of-the-seenk\/\">On Borges, Particles, and the Paradox of the Perceived<\/a>.\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, April 28, 2013.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/28\/can-neuroscience-challenge-roe-v-wade\/\">Can Neuroscience Challenge Roe v. Wade?<\/a>\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, October 28, 2012.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/06\/bodies-in-motion-an-exchange\/\">Bodies in Motion: An Exchange<\/a>.\u201d Co-authored with Alex Rosenberg. <em>The New York Times<\/em>, November 6, 2011.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/25\/quixote-colbert-and-the-reality-of-fiction\/\">\u2018Quixote,\u2019 Colbert, and the Reality of Fiction<\/a>.\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, September 25, 2011.<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2010\/10\/07\/the-revenge-of-the-novel\/\">The Revenge of the Novel<\/a>.\u201d <em>Foreign Policy<\/em>, October 7, 2010.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Interviews, lectures, and presentations on his book,\u00a0<em>The Man Who Invented Fiction<\/em>, include:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.full-stop.net\/2016\/05\/25\/interviews\/andrew-mitchell-davenport\/william-egginton\/\">Interview<\/a> with <em>Full Stop<\/em>.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n6Xl0f4nnqE\">Panel<\/a> at The Center for Fiction, with translators Edith Grossman and Natasha Wimmer as well as author \u00c1lvaro Enrigue.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/149045202\">Lecture,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cTwilight of the Idyll: How Cervantes Pulled Fiction Out of the Grave of Pastoral,\u201d delivered\u00a0at Concordia University for a conference on Cervantes and the Public Humanities.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>"],"ecpt_hours":["TTh 1:30-2:30"],"_searchwp_last_index":["1552647462"],"ecpt_twitter":["WilliamEgginton"],"_ecpt_cv":["field_61e0871dac8e2"],"cv_file":["9039"],"_cv_file":["field_61e088d12999e"],"ecpt_job_abstract":[""],"_ecpt_job_abstract":["field_61e0873bac8e3"],"abstract_file":[""],"_abstract_file":["field_61e088f52999f"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9040,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/213\/revisions\/9040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/role?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"filter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}