Biography

B.A. Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Virginia

Clifford Siskin is the Director of The Re:Enlightenment Project. His subject is the interrelations of literary, social, and technological change. Links between past and present inform all of his work, from his anatomy of subjectivity (The Historicity of Romantic Discourse) to his history of the modern disciplines (The Work of Writing). He has also co-edited This Is Enlightenment, a response to the question Kant made famous: What is Enlightenment?