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Dr Tim Beasley-Murray
Appointment
- Senior Lecturer
- Sch of Slavonic & East European Studies
- School of Arts & Social Sciences
Joined UCL
01/08/1996
Research Groups
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Aesthetics and literary theory; political philosophy; Habsburg culture and psychoanalysis; Modernism and the historical avant-gardes; Czech, Slovak and German-language literature; Postcolonialism and Central European culture.
Amongst other projects, I am currently investigating the function of speech in political thought, with reference to Arendt, Bakhtin, Hobbes, and Thucydides.
My book, Experience and Form: Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin came out with Palgrave-Macmillan in 2007.
You may read my article on 'German-language Culture and the "Slav Stranger within"', published in Central Europe.
Here is a final draft of an article, 'The Revolutionary Moment and the 'Lost Treasure' of Democracy: 1989 in the Light of Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Slavoj ��i��ek'that appeared in Peter Duncan (ed.), Convergence and Divergence: Russia and Eastern Europe into the Twenty-First Century, Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe series. London: UCL SSEES, 2007.
Teaching Summary
I teach and contribute to a wide variety of courses in comparative literature, political philosophy, literary theory and cultural studies, East European literature and cinema, and Slovak literature. I am also Programme tutor for the MRes in East European Studies and for the MA in Central and South-East European Studies. In July, I was given one of the Provost's Teaching Awards.
Courses:
The History of European Political Ideas (BA)
Introduction to East European Literature in Translation (BA)
Cinema in Eastern Europe (BA)
Introduction to Slovak Literature (BA)
Walter Benjamin: Philosophy, Aesthetics, History, Politics (MA)
Alterity, Identity, Dialogue: Bakhtin and Others (MA)
Contributions to:
Language and Culture (BA)
Nationalism, Literature and Language in Eastern Europe (MA)
Contemporary Cultural Studies: Between Communism and Postmodernism (MA)
Academic Background
| 2006 | PhD | Doctor of Philosophy | London |
