Research Overview

I work at the intersections of cultural geography, philosophy, aesthetics, critical theory and political theology. I am particularly interested in exploring the fundamental, if overlooked, geographies inherent in key philosophical arguments and interventions. My recent book, In Exile: Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought (Bloomsbury, 2021), examines the spatial basis of a twentieth-century Judaic theological and intellectual tradition. Drawing on ancient sources and via an array of contemporary figures (Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Isaiah Berlin, Hannah Arendt, and the German novelist W.G. Sebald), In Exile rethinks the relations between identity and autochthony, time and territory, secularity and the sacred. Most urgently, it also reclaims an ancient Judaic spatiality opposed to the sovereign violences of the present Jewish state.