Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS

Kevin McLaughlin served as Dean of the Faculty from 2011-2022 at Brown University. He is currently George Hazard Crooker Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Brown and the Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study at Brown. McLaughlin became the Editor of Novel: A Forum for Fiction in 2023. He has been the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. He is the author of four books, Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in 19th-Century Literature (Stanford UP, 1995); Paperwork: Literature and Mass Mediacy in the Age of Paper (U of Penn P, 2005); Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant (Stanford UP, 2014); and The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin’s Critical Program (Fordham UP, 2023). McLaughlin is the co-translator with Howard Eiland of Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project (Harvard UP, 1999).  He is also the co-translator and co-editor with Susan Bernstein and Peter Fenves of Walter Benjamin’s Writings on Goethe (Stanford UP, forthcoming).