William Egginton

William Egginton is Professor and Chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American literature, literary theory, and the relation between literature and philosophy. He is the author of How the World Became a Stage (SUNY, 2003), Perversity and Ethics (Stanford, 2006), A Wrinkle in History (Davies Group, 2007), and The Philosopher's Desire (Stanford, 2007). He is also co-editor, with Mike Sandbothe, of The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy (SUNY, 2004), and translator of Lisa Block de Behar's Borges, the Passion of an Endless Quotation (2002).