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).