Dietmar Til and Adam Potka (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming 2023. 4: Rhetoric from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, ed. “The Tradition of the Sublime in 17th and 18th Centuries,” commissioned for The Cambridge History of Rhetoric, Vol. Cultural Theory After 9/11: Terror, Religion, Media. Spec. Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005. By René Girard, Stanford UP, 2008. The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007. By Hayden White, Johns Hopkins UP, 2010. Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy.Įditor. Philosophy of History After Hayden White. Bloomsbury, 2013. Liszt and Virtuosity. University of Rochester Press, 2020.Įditor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, in press, forthcoming 2022.Įditor. The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, Volume I, 1998-2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2023.Įditor. The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, Volume II, 2007-2017. The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant. The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature. He teaches courses on and has a research interest in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French literature and culture, continental philosophy, aesthetics, virtuosity, Liszt, philosophy of music, and modern and contemporary French thought. His current book project is Revolutionary Aesthetics: The Sublime in Nineteenth-Century France. He has authored the monographs The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant (Cambridge University Press, 2015/2017 Spanish translation 2021) and The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature (Bloomsbury, 2017). He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, the edited volume Liszt and Virtuosity (University of Rochester Press, 2020), which was based on the conference “Liszt and Virtuosity-An International Symposium” held at Eastman on March 2-4, 2017 (organized by Robert Doran, Jonathan Dunsby, and Ralph Locke). He also studied piano performance at the Serge Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Paris. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and a PhD in General and Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle-University of Paris 3. Robert Doran is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature for the Modern Languages and Cultures Department in the School of Arts, Sciences, and an Affiliate Faculty member of the Music Theory Department of the Eastman School of Music.