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Dr Sebastian Truskolaski joined the University of Manchester in 2021. His PhD was awarded in 2016 by Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was affiliated with the Department of Visual Cultures and the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought.
Before coming to Manchester, Sebastian taught German and Comparative Literature at Trinity College Dublin and King's College London, and was awarded a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his research at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin.
Sebastian's research interests include:
His first monograph, Adorno and the Ban on Images, appeared with Bloomsbury in 2021. Together with Paula Schwebel, he translated the correspondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem (Polity, 2021), which was recently nominated for the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, and has been favourably reviewed in the New York Review of Books and the Jewish Review of Books, amongst others. Together with Jan Sieber, he guest-edited a special issue of the journal Anthropology & Materialism on the philosophy of Water Benjamin (2017). Together with Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, he edited and translated The Storyteller – a collection of Walter Benjamin's experimental prose writings (Verso, 2016) – which was positively reviewed in The Guardian, Financial Times, and Times Literary Supplement, amongst others. Moreover, Sebastian is on the editorial board of the journal, New Benjamin Studies (Brill).
He is presently working on a new project on Friedrich Hölderlin and the concept of community, especially as it emerges from readings of the poet by Franz Rosenzweig, Gustav Landauer, and Walter Benjamin
Sebastian teaches on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate units across German and related disciplines the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.
Sebastian welcomes proposals from prospective PhD students working on topics relating to:
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