Research Bio
Robert Kaufman’s teaching and research emphasize several interrelated areas: 20th-21st-century American poetry and its dialogues with modern Latin American, German, French, and British poetry; romantic and 19th-century poetry and poetics; philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, and the history of criticism (esp. since Kant and romanticism); and Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the arts (poetry and the other literary genres; music; cinema; painting, etc.).
Research Expertise and Interest
modern poetry, aesthetics, literary theory, history of criticism, frankfurt school critical theory
Teaching
Eighteenth- and 19th-Century Literature [COMLIT 154 - 001]
Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature [COMLIT 190 - 003]
The Modern Period [COMLIT 155 - 001]
Special Topics in Comparative Literature [COMLIT 170 - 001]
Studies in Symbolist and Modern Literature [COMLIT 225 - 001]