Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Philosophy professor and poet
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei is a philosophy and German professor at Johns Hopkins University and a prizewinning poet.
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About Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Kurrelmeyer Chair in German at Johns Hopkins University. She has also taught at Oxford, Birmingham and Fordham University. She earned a DPhil from Oxford, a PhD in Philosophy from Villanova and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. Her research covers phenomenology, existentialism, aesthetics and the philosophy of literature. In On Being and Becoming (Oxford University Press, 2020), she traces existentialism back to nineteenth-century German, Danish and Russian thought, and includes the contributions of African-American thinkers. Her other books include The Life of Imagination and Exotic Spaces in German Modernism. Her poetry collection After the Palace Burns won The Paris Review Prize.