Erik S. Roraback

Erik S. Roraback teaches critical theory, international cinema, theoretical psychoanalysis, and U.S. literature in Charles University (est. 1348) and in F.A.M.U. (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague. He is the author of 'The Power of the Impossible: On Community and the Creative Life' (Iff, 2018), 'The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities' (Brill, 2017), and 'The Dialectics of Late Capital and Power: James, Balzac and Critical Theory' (Cambridge Scholars, 2007); he is also the author of 100 book chapters, scholarly journal or encyclopedia articles, conference papers, and guest lectures in 15 countries. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford (D.Phil.) and from Pomona College (B.A.), and has been Visiting Professor in the Université de Provence. Erik Roraback has also been a Visiting Researcher at the Universität Konstanz (2004–14), a Visiting Scholar (2015–19) and currently an Affiliate Associate Professor (2019–) at the University of Washington, and holds a University Visiting Research Fellowship in the University of Winchester (2014–23).