Comparative Literature

Eva Kenny studied English and Art History for her degree at University College Dublin and earned a Masters in critical theory at New York University before starting the PhD program in Comparative Literature at Princeton University in 2008. She works between the departments of Comparative Literature and Art and Archaeology at Princeton and is writing a dissertation titled "Existential Embarrassment," on the concept of embarrassment both as such and in relation to art, particularly examining German painting of the past forty years. Other research interests include the history of art criticism; abstract painting; French literature and writing on art from the late eighteenth century onwards and the relationship between the arts in modernity.