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Jeroen Gerrits

Associate Professor; Department Chair; TRIP Courtesy Title

Comparative Literature; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
LT 1502

Background

Jeroen Gerrits is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature (courtesy title in Translation Studies) and Chair of the Department. He teaches courses at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and media, and published a monograph Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns with SUNY Press (2019). A monograph on TV series, Series of Time: An Uncanny Ordinary in New TV, is under contract with Exeter University Press for its TV-Philosophy series. 

His publications include numerous articles and book chapters on Cavell’s philosophy in the context of film and TV, as well as articles on specific shows, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, The Handmaid’s Tale, Twin Peaks and Ozark.

Education

  • PhD, Johns Hopkins University
  • MA, University of Amsterdam
  • BA, Fontys Academy of Journalism, Tilburg

Teaching Interests

  • Recently taught courses and seminars include: Gilles Deleuze; Stanley Cavell; Film Adaptation; World Cinema; Surrealism; Time in Lit & Film; Philosophy of New Media