Contact
Email
blaberbe@grinnell.edu
Phone
641-269-4472
Address
1226 Park Street
HSSC N2154
91´óÉñ, IA 50112
United States
Bevin Blaber
Assistant Professor
Bevin Blaber is a scholar of philosophy of religions. Her work centers on continental philosophy, ethics, and modern Jewish thought and literature, with particular emphasis on post-Holocaust thought. In her first monograph, an interdisciplinary project combining philosophical, literary and historical analyses, she examines French philosopher and theorist Maurice Blanchot’s earliest work: articles published in right-wing French journals in the years preceding World War II. Her current work explores ways that conceptions of guilt and atonement are figured in instances of state or community-perpetrated atrocities, and the impact of these definitions on attempts, both legal and extra-juridical, to grapple with legacies of these events. She has previously taught at the University of Chicago, 91´óÉñ, and Bard College.
Education and Degrees
B.A. – Williams College (Religion, concentration in Jewish Studies)
A.M. – The University of Chicago Divinity School (Divinity)
PhD – The University of Chicago Divinity School (Philosophy of Religions)
Also studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, where she was Visiting Dissertation Research Fellow.