COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES PROGRAM

Ariel Weiner is a Ph.D. student in the Program of Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in German and an affiliation with the Jewish Studies Cluster. She received her B.A. in Classics and Religious Studies in 2015 from the University of King’s College in Halifax. Her research interests include the work of Walter Benjamin, continental philosophy, media and communications theory, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics and 20th century Jewish thought, particularly regarding questions of language, mediation and perception.