Meet our speaker - Marci Shore

Marci Shore

Marci Shore

Yale University

Marci Shore

Yale University

  

BIO

Marci Shore teaches modern European intellectual history. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2001; she taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale.

Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first-century Central and Eastern Europe. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s “The Black Seasons” and the author of “Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968”, “The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe”, and “The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution”.

In 2018, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current book project, a history of phenomenology in East-Central Europe, tentatively titled “Eyeglasses Floating in Space: Central European Encounters That Came about While Searching for Truth”. She is a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.

Currently, she is co-curating a Public Seminar/Eurozine forum “On the Uses and Disadvantages of Historical Comparisons for Life” (title stolen from Nietzsche).