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Natasha Hay

Sessional Instructor
OfficeJOR-408

Research Interests

continental philosophy; critical theory; psychoanalysis; feminist philosophy and queer theory; social and political philosophy; aesthetics

Selected Publications & Presentations

Articles

“Between Archaeology and Genealogy: The Aporetic Ethics of Saidiya Hartman’s Critical Fabulation.” Forthcoming in Philosophy Today 69.1, Winter 2025.

“Unlearning Pauline Messianism: Prophetic Study and Historical Injustice in Walter Benjamin and Hermann Cohen.” Forthcoming in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Fall 2024.

“Lessons of 1914: Reconceiving the Free School Community out of the Actuality of War.” Forthcoming in New Benjamin Studies 1.3.

“Cosmic Mourning: The Birth of Transcendence in Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life.” Trans-: Revue de littérature générale et comparée. Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle: Volume 18, Fall 2014.

Chapters

“Conversational Pedagogy in Benjamin and Nietzsche.” In Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy. Eds. Dennis Johannßen and Dominik Zechner. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022: 97-110.

Spanish translation of “Conversational Pedagogy” by Dr. Cristian Leandro Sànchez Marin (Philosophy, University of Antioquia) for a book of essays on the relationship between critical theory and education, forthcoming in Summer 2024.