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Magdalena Ostas
Assistant Professor
B.A. UC San Diego, Ph.D. Duke University

Teaching and Research Interests: Romanticism; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Literary, Cultural, and Aesthetic Theory; Literature and Philosophy

Selected Publications: “Keats and the Impersonal Craft of Writing,” in Romanticism and the Object (Palgrave Macmillan 2009); “Rereading Nietzsche in Theory: Aesthetics and the Movement of Genealogy in the Early Work,” International Studies in Philosophy 37.1 (2005)

Work in Progress: Romanticism and the Forms of Interiority: Poetry, Narrative, Theory. 
Nietzsche and Aesthetics: Countermovements.

Honors/Grants/Awards: Josephine de Karman Fellowship (2004-05), Jaffrey Summer Research Fellowship (2004), Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship (2000, 2004)

mostas@bu.edu