Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her research interests include the Enlightenment and Romanticism; philosophy and literary theory; aesthetics and epistemology; Spanish and English baroque; and Latin American literature. Professor Brodsky's books include The Imposition of Form: Studies in Narrative Representation and Knowledge and Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern Philosophy. During Winter Quarter, 2005, she is conducting a graduate student workshop in German Studies and Comparative Literature at Stanford.