Robert Doran

Robert Doran is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester and an Affiliate Faculty member in the Music Theory Department at the Eastman School of Music. He is the author of _The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant_ (Cambridge University Press, 2015/2017; Spanish translation, _La teoría de lo sublime: De Longino a Kant_, 2021) and _The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature_ (Bloomsbury, 2017), and is the editor of six books: _The Ethics of Narrative, Vol. 2 (2023)_, by Hayden White, _The Ethics of Narrative, Vol. 1 (2022), by Hayden White, _Liszt and Virtuosity_ (2020), _Philosophy of History After Hayden White_ (2013), _The Fiction of Narrative_ (2010), by Hayden White, and _Mimesis and Theory_ (2008), by René Girard.

Professor Doran holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in General and Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III. Before joining the faculty at the University of Rochester, he taught for three years at Middlebury College as Visiting Assistant Professor of French.

Interview with Rhys Tranter about _The Ethics of Theory_:

https://rhystranter.com/2017/05/05/robert-doran-ethics-of-theory/

Interview with Cambridge University Press about _The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant_:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSu5hYwxjGo