I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany.

My PhD thesis, defended summa cum laude in January 2026, examines the emotional, formal, and ideological complexities of mid-twentieth-century political writing. Supervised by Benjamin Kohlmann and funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the project contributes to scholarship on Cold War liberal thought.

Before my PhD, I completed an MA in Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium, and an MA in English Literatures and Literary Theory at the University of Freiburg.

Together with Derek Attridge and Anirudh Sridhar, I co-edited The Work of Reading (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), reviewed in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory and Textual Practice. The volume appeared on Amazon’s best-selling new releases in Literary Criticism & Theory.

I occasionally write political and cultural criticism for wider readerships. My work has appeared in venues such as The Philosophical Salon, New Politics, and 3 Quarks Daily.

I have taught widely across literary and cultural studies, with courses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and art, critical theory, intellectual history, and aesthetics. I encourage my students to read closely and slowly, thinking about broader questions of culture, politics, and history, especially as they relate to the present.

I do not keep fixed office hours but am available to meet by appointment. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or would like to share your thoughts.

Mir Ali Hosseini