Daniel Heller-Roazen
· Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative LiteraturePrinceton University · Comparative Literature
Active 1998–2024
About
Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His research interests encompass Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Poetics, Linguistics, and Psychoanalysis. He has authored several books, including 'Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies', 'Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons', 'No One’s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming', 'Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers', 'The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World', 'The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations', 'The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation', 'Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language', and 'Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency'. These works have been translated into many languages. He has also edited the Norton Critical Edition of the Arabian Nights and Giorgio Agamben’s 'Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy'. Heller-Roazen has received fellowships from prominent institutions such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In 2010, he was awarded the Medal of the Collège de France, and in 2018, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Awards & honors
- Modern Language Association’s 2008 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione…
- Medal of the Collège de France (2010)
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
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