Daniel Heller-Roazen (born 1974) is a Canadian writer and academic. He is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.[1]
Life
Daniel Heller-Roazen was born in Canada in 1974,[2] in Toronto. After studying philosophy at the University of Toronto, he took a masters in German from Johns Hopkins University. He gained his PhD in comparative literature in 2000, translating the work of Giorgio Agamben as a graduate student, before starting to teach at Princeton. In 2010 he was awarded the Medal of the Collège de France [3][ http://www.princeton.edu/complit/people/display_person.xml?netid=dheller&display=Faculty]
Works
- (ed. and tr.) Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy by Giorgio Agamben, 1999.
- Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency, 2003
- Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language, 2005
- The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation, 2007. Winner of the Modern Language Association's 2008 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies.
- The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations, 2009
- (ed.) The Arabian Nights, Norton Critical Edition, 2010.
- The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World, 2011.
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Daniel Heller-Roazen
- ^ Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, conveys complex ideas clearly - in 10 languages, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Vol. 95, No. 11 (December 5, 2005). Accessed 29 April 2013.
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