The Belligerent Gaze: Witnessing at War

Mikkel Bruun Zangenberg is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UW. He has published books on Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake (1999) and on Beckett’s Ontic Space (2001), as well as articles on literary theory, the ontology of fiction, and the European avant-garde. He is currently working on a large-scale study of the relation between politics, aesthetics, violence, and democracy in the twentieth century, ranging from Italian Futurism to the war in the former Yugoslavia and contemporary forms of terrorism.