The event is the Philosophy Department's annual Singer lecture, an endowed lecture series that brings prominent philosophers specializing in feminist theory, aesthetics, and political philosophy, to campus. In 2027 the Singer lecture speakers are Dr. Lynne Huffer (Emory) and Dr. Mario Telo (Berkeley). They will co-present on "le plaisir du texting"
Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. She holds a PhD in French Literature from the University of Michigan (1989) and has taught at Yale (1989-1998) and Rice (1998-2005) Universities. She is the author of six books. They include a collage-style philosophical work in fragments, These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction; a trilogy on Foucault’s ethics of eros, Foucault’s Strange Eros (2020), Are the Lips a Grave? (2013), and Mad for Foucault (2010); and two other books on feminist theory, Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures (1998); and Another Colette (1992).
Mario Telò is a professor in the Department of Rhetoric. In his scholarship, he seeks to place antiquity in dialogue with modernity, defamiliarizing and destabilizing widely accepted critical positions by exploring the emancipatory potential of textual and visual form. Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon (University of Chicago Press, 2016) theorizes the nexus between canonicity and sensory—especially haptic—materiality. The edited volume The Materiality of Greek Tragedy (Bloomsbury, 2018) tests the advantages and limits of the so-called new materialisms in the interpretation of drama. Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy (Ohio State University Press, “Classical Memories/Modern Identities,” 2020), examines how contemporary theorizations of the archive and the death drive can help us understand the aesthetic experience of tragedy.
