Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Professor; Director: Center for University Studies and Programs (on leave)
Fulbright Scholar in General Education: University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong America Center (2009-10)
B.A.: Philosophy: University of Colorado: Boulder
M.A.: Literature: UNC-Greensboro
M.A.R.: Philosophy, Literature, and Religion: Yale Divinity School
Ph.D.: Interdisciplinary Studies: Philosophy, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Emory University
Office: UW2 030C
Phone: 425.352.3670
Email: gklindgren@uwb.edu
Mailing: Box 358530 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246
Teaching
Teaching provides an opportunity for metamorphosis, an effort that depends upon creating a space of dialogue, translation, precision, fuzziness, and innovative practices. The hope is that our learning together will offer the possibility of ethics, new forms of making, and the surprising pleasure of discovery.
Recent Courses Taught
B CUSP 104 Dreaming the Earth: Art, Philosophy, Science
BIS 300 Interdisciplinary Inquiry: The Puppet as Cultural Object
BIS 205: Technologies of Expression: Book-Film-Computer
Research/Scholarship
Through cross-disciplinary and cross-genre connections, my work focuses on questions of aesthetics, spectrality, technocultures, global noir, and the 21st century university. I am interested in, among a host of other things, cafés, ghosts, cities, hotel keys, the posthuman, painting, and the enigma of reading.
Selected Publications
Books
- Spectral Aesthetics: Phantomenology and the Remains of Art (circulating)
- TechnoLogics: Ghosts, the Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation (SUNY 2005)
- Starting Time: A True Account of the Origins of Creation, Sex, Death, and Golf (White Cloud Press 1995)
- Narcissus Transformed: The Textual Subject in Psychoanalysis and Literature (Penn State UP 1993)
Articles
- "Scratching from the Other Side: The Garbage-Event," (with Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren), Event Structures, Ed. Ken Friedman and Owen Smith (forthcoming)
- "The Haunting of the University: Phantomenology in the House of Learning." Pedagogy (December 2008)
- "A Passion for Waiting: Walter Benjamin in the Cafés," The Café Irreal. (August 2008)
- "The Night Cafés of Van Gogh," Respiro 20 < http://www.respiro.org/ > (Winter 2007)