Welcome to OLP & Literary Studies Online, an academic blog run by, and for, scholars who work at the crossroads of ordinary language philosophy (OLP) and literary studies. Look here for news about OLP and literary studies-related publications and events, including CFP’s, conferences, lectures, symposia, reviews, articles, and books. We invite you to browse through the site page by page (we suggest that you begin with the blog’s Home page) or, if you’d like to see a complete list of all the posts ever published on the blog, please consult the site’s Index.
We’d also like to draw your attention to some OLP-related bibliographies we’ve compiled (like this bibliography of secondary writings about Cavell), which we hope will be of use to the scholarly community: you can find them listed in the “Bibliographies” section of the column that runs down the right-hand side of the blog’s Home page. We intend to add more bibliographies in the future.
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Bernard Rhie, Williams College
Bernie Rhie is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Williams College, where he teaches courses on modern literature and on the connections between philosophy and literature. With Richard Eldridge (Philosophy, Swarthmore College), he is the coeditor of an essay collection — entitled Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism — that explores the relevance of Cavell’s writings for literary theorists and critics (Continuum 2011). Bernie is also the founder and site administrator of OLP & Literary Studies Online. To visit his personal website, please click here.
Byron Davies, Harvard University
Byron Davies is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at Harvard University. While in graduate school he has written on the philosophical question, familiar from ordinary language philosophy and the writing of Stanley Cavell, of what justifies non-empirical appeals to “what we say” about certain things. He sees this an attempt to bring ordinary language philosophy in conversation with contemporary philosophical work on self-knowledge and self-consciousness. His short contribution to a recent symposium on Stanley Cavell’s Little Did I Know, titled “An Autobiography of Companions,” is forthcoming in Modern Language Notes.
Yi-Ping Ong, Johns Hopkins University
Yi-Ping Ong is Assistant Professor in the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. She works primarily on the literature and philosophy of ordinary life in the 19th and 20th centuries, on contemporary Anglophone literature, and on theories of moral community in the novel. Her article “A View of Life: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Novel,” appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of Philosophy and Literature, and she has an article on the language of advertising and Naipaul forthcoming in Twentieth-Century Literature. To visit her Humanities Center webpage, please click here.
Magdalena Ostas, Boston University
Magdalena Ostas received her Ph.D. from the Literature Program at Duke University, and she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Boston University. She works in the areas of Romantic literature and culture as well as literary, cultural, and aesthetic theory broadly conceived. Her current book project in progress, tentatively titled Romanticism and the Forms of Interiority: Poetry, Narrative, Theory, looks at the relationship between emergent pictures of subjectivity and selfhood in Romantic-era writing (Kant, Wordsworth, Austen, Keats, and others) and their relation to questions of literary form, aesthetics, and expression. She is also interested in intersections and interrelations of literature and philosophy, with emphasis on the nineteenth century as well as in the tradition of Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell. She is at work on a second project on Nietzsche’s theories of art and aesthetics. To visit her Boston University webpage, please click here.
Corina Stan, Duke University
Corina Stan is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Leiden University College, the Hague, where she also coordinates the Brill-Nijhoff Writing Institute. She received her Ph.D. from the Program in Literature at Duke University, with a dissertation entitled The Art of Distances or, a Morality for the Everyday. She has published, in Romanian journals, an essay on the dream-theater of Strindberg and Adamov and translations from the poetry of Yves Bonnefoy; a review-essay on Jonathan Culler’s Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction on the website of the French research group in literary theory, Fabula; and articles in the Spanish section of the Dictionary of Art Historians (ed. Lee Sorensen, Lilly Library). She is interested in theories of everyday life, the sociology of intellectuals, twentieth-century comparative literature (British, French and German) and its intersections with philosophy, especially moral philosophy. To visit her LUC webpage, please click here.
