
Sarah Clift
Dr. Clift is the Vice-President and Associate Professor of the Contemporary Studies Department at the University of King’s College. She has a background in German and European studies. Her research interests surround memory within contemporary philosophy with an interest in the question of radical futurity.
She is also the 2009 recipient of the President’s Prize for best doctoral thesis from York University. She is involved in the project “Memory Activism and Collaborative Process of Counter-Monumentality,” through King’s and NSCAD which combines art and memory within their research.
Listing Details
Institution: | University of King's College |
Fields of Expertise: | Memory Politics |
Research groups: | Memory Politics |
Email: | sarah.clift@ukings.ca |
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Languages: | English |
Publications: | Committing the Future to Memory: Experience, History, Trauma. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. “Impossible Testimony: Figures of Memory in Locke’s Essay.” Inventing the Past: Memory Work in Culture and History. Basel: Schwabe Press, 2005: 159-179. “Narrative life-span, in the wake.” Biopolitics, Narrative, Temporality. Eds. Rod Frey and Alexander Ruch. Polygraph 18 (2006): 13-45. “Testimony in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility,” Poiesis 4, 2002: 114-129. |