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Jay Daniel Mininger

Professore a contratto

Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali

Curriculum vitae

Education

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, January 2007 Dissertation: ‘Nothing Too Much’: The Poetics of Anxiety

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 2002 – 03, and 2005 – 06

B.A. in History and German (double major), Goshen College, Goshen, IN, 1997

Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany, 1995 – 96

A.A. in Liberal Arts, Hesston College, Hesston, KS, 1995

 

Current Position(s):

Academic Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty (Jan 2017 – present), LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania

Adjunct Professor of Philosophy (Sept. 2015– present), Dept. of Philosophy and Social Critique, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

Adjunct Professor, University of Bologna (Italy) (June 2010 – present), MIREES, Interdisciplinary MA Program in East European Research and Studies

Director of MIREES program at Vytautas Magnus University (Oct. 2015 – present).

 

Selected Publications

Books

German Aesthetics: Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno, co-edited with Jason Michael Peck, London/New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2016. Editor and Contributor.

Politics Otherwise: Shakespeare as Social and Political Critique, co-edited with Leonidas Donskis. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012. Editor and Contributor.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“Leonidas Donskis,” in Dictionnaire des penseurs d'Europe centrale, forthcoming.

“Peter Fenves,’Chatter’: Language and History in Kierkegaard,” in Kierkegaard Secondary Literature, Tome II: English, A-K, ed. Jon Stewart, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2016. 191-196.

“Allegory,” in German Aesthetics: Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno, Eds. J.D. Mininger and Jason Michael Peck, London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

“Literary Criticism and Theory,” in The Blackwell Companion to Kierkegaard, ed. Jon Stewart, Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

“The Human Network Revisited: Responses to Brynnar Swenson’s ‘The Human Network: Social Media and the Limit of Politics’,” co-authored with Ignas Kalpokas and Viktorija Rusinaitė, Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 6:2 (2013): 124-148.

“Allegory,” in Kierkegaard's Concepts, Tome I: Absolute to Church, eds. Steven Emmanuel, William McDonald, and Jon Stewart, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. 31-36.

“Notes on the Figure of the Refugee; or, Towards a Political Philosophy of Extimacy,” Darbai ir Dienos (2012) no. 57, 219-231.

“Kundera, Nádas, and the Fiction of Central Europe,” in Yet Another Europe after 1984: Rethinking Milan Kundera and the Idea of Central Europe, ed. Leonidas Donskis, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012. 151-170.

“Currencies of Love: Political and Ethical Economies of Language in Shakespeare,” co-authored with Jason Michael Peck, in Politics Otherwise: Shakespeare as Social and Political Critique, Eds. Leonidas Donskis and J.D. Mininger, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012. 95-109.

“Jacques Lacan: Kierkegaard as a Freudian Questioner of the Soul avant la lettre,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on the Social Sciences, Ed. Jon Stewart, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 195-216.

“The Hermaphrodite Sovereign: Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, and the Permanent State of Exception,” Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 3:2 (2010): 144-164.

“Lateness Timely and Untimely: Towards a Taxonomy of Late Style,” Darbai ir Dienos (2009) no. 50: 45-57.

“Culture Against Itself; or, Culture as a System of Non-Culture,” in LCC Liberal Arts StudiesVolume 1: Culture and Dialogue, Klaipeda: LCC International University, 2008. 169-174.

“Barbaric Balladry: Adorno, Poetry, and Cultural Critique,” in “Barbaras literaturoje ir mene,” (The Barbarian in Literature and Art), Acta litteraria comparativa 3, 4, Vilnius: Vilniaus pedagoginio universiteto leidykla, 2008.

Nachschrift eines Freundes: Kant, Lithuania, and the Praxis of Enlightenment.” Studies in East European Thought. (2005) 57: 1-32.

 

Selected Editorial Experience

Managing Editor, VIBS – Value Inquiry Book Series, Brill / Rodopi (Leiden/Boston). 2016-present.

--The Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) is an international scholarly program, founded in 1992 by Robert Ginsberg, that publishes philosophical books in all areas of value inquiry, including social and political thought, ethics, applied philosophy, aesthetics, feminism, pragmatism, personalism, religious values, medical and health values, values in education, values in science and technology, humanistic psychology, cognitive science, formal axiology, history of philosophy, post-communist thought, peace theory, law and society, and theory of culture. The series has 33 sub-series, and to-date the series has published 290 volumes. http://www.brill.com/products/series/value-inquiry-book-series

Co-editor (with Leonidas Donskis) of Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, a sub-series of VIBS, Brill / Rodopi, Leiden/Boston. 2010-present.  http://www.brill.com/products/series/philosophy-literature-and-politics

 Senior Editor, September 2009 – present, Baltic Journal of Law and Politics, international refereed journal; positive impact factor, SCOPUS-indexed.

 

Selected Honors and Awards

Research Fellow, Søren Kierkegaard Research Center, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark. May 2014.

Student Research Fellowship, awarded with Mindaugas Bundza, Lithuanian Science and Research Council, Sept-Dec., 2012. Project Title: Jacques Rancière's Thought as a Unique Model for Studying Socio-Cultural Transformations in Post-Communist Societies.

Student Research Fellowship, awarded with Edvardas Giedraitis, Lithuanian Science and Research Council, Jan-June 2012. Project Title: Biopolitics and the Problem of Universal Human Rights

Student Research Fellowship, awarded with Arnoldas Blumberg, Lithuanian Science and Research Council, Jan-June 2012. Project title: Comics as Social and Political Critique

Research Fellow, Søren Kierkegaard Research Center, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark. September 2004 – August 2006

University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2005 – 06

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2004 – 05

Visiting Lectureship, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin Germany, 2002-3

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2002–03 (declined)

Pew Younger Scholars Fellow, Seminar in Literary Theory, Notre Dame University, Summer 1998

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