German Studies

Simon studies literature and other media, continental and ancient philosophy, theology, natural science, and economic criticism, particularly where they overlap. His dissertation follows comments on metamorphosis from Goethe’s natural-philosophical writings into other domains, including the mythography of Schelling and Caillois, the entomology of Fabre, and works of Hölderlin and Proust in which natural and artificial metamorphoses coincide. Other persistent interests include the novella, the logic of dreams, the nature of judgment, readings of reading, Dante, Calderón, Kafka, Benjamin, Lispector, and Marx. He is a graduate of Yale and Cambridge.