Timothy C. Campbell

Professor of Italian Studies

Overview

Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. His translations include Roberto Esposito’s Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Minnesota, 2008) and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Stanford, 2010), and he is the co-translator (with Lia Turtas) of Carlo Diano's Form and Event (Fordham, 2018).  He is also the author of Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life (Fordham, 2017) and more recently The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession (Minnesota, 2023), co-authored with Grant Farred.

He is also PI of the 2023 New Frontier Grant project, The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid.

Currently, he is working two projects: the first titled "Useless Democracies" and the second on contemporary governance.

Research Focus

  • Contemporary Italian Thought
  • Global Health and its Institutions
  • The Biopolitics of Covid

Publications

Books

  • The Biopolitics of Global Health, with Yasmeen Arif, Davide Tarizzo, and Esca van Blarikom, Fordham University Press (under contract)
  • The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession, with Grant Farred, University of Minnesota Press
  • Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life, Fordham University Press, 2017.
  • Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben, University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
  • Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

 

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