Jan Hein Hoogstad

Seminar

During the ACS Summer Institute 2011, Jan Hein Hoogstad will organize a seminar entitled: Reading and Writing 101

About

Jan Hein Hoogstad is assistant professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. In the fall of 2008, he was a visiting professor at the English Department of the University of Minnesota. In 2007 and 2008, Jan Hein was affiliated to the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on a project called Intellectual Image. Before, he wrote his dissertation Time Tracks at the department of Philosophy of the University of Utrecht, and Media Theory and Cultural Studies at the Humboldt-?University in Berlin. Jan Hein has published on Prince, Marvin Gaye, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Kittler, Ralph Ellison, Michel Foucault, and the Ol' Dirty Bastard. He is currently working on a research project called Medial Operations and a website with the same title, as well as co-?editing a volume called Pluralizing Rhythm.