Anthony Cascardi

Anthony J. Cascardi is Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish. He is former Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and of the Arts Research Center. Cascardi’s research interests include the relations between literature and philosophy; aesthetic theory; the novel; and early modern Europe. His recent publications include the two edited volumes "Art and Aesthetics After Adorno" and "Poiesis and Modernity," and the books “Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics" and "The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy."