Andrea Gadberry
Associate Professor
alg16@nyu.edu
(212) 992-6321
305 - 411 Laf
Office Hours
Monday BY APPT
Tuesday 10:00-12:00
Wednesday BY APPT
Thursday BY APPT
Friday BY APPT
A.B., French, Washington University in St. Louis, 2006
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2014
Andrea Gadberry is a comparatist working primarily in English, French, and Latin. Her research focuses on the literature, philosophy, and political theory of early modernity and the Enlightenment, with additional interests in poetics, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Her current book project, Cartesian Poetics, investigates the charge that Descartes "cut the throat of poetry," showing how an often-unsettling engagement with poetry and poetics haunts and shapes the Cartesian legacy developed in Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy -a tradition handed down through the Enlightenment to modernity. Professor Gadberry has also taught classes in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley and, through the Prison University Project, at San Quentin State Prison. She holds a joint appointment with Gallatin and NYU's Department of Comparative Literature.
Books
2020
Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking by Andrea Gadberry was published by University of Chicago Press.
Teaching and Research Interests
comparative early modern and Enlightenment studies (English French Latin); philosophy and political theory 1600-1800; genre; poetics; psychoanalysis; critical theory
Courses
2024 Spring
2023 Spring
Proximity and Protest in the 18th-Century Letter and its Afterlives
2023 Fall
2020 Spring
Enlightenment Subjects and Subjections
2020 Fall
First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar: (Un)relatable
2019 Spring
