DFG - Centre for Advanced Studies
FOR 2603 2017 – 2023
FOR 2603 2017 – 2023
David Hock
Research Assistant
Active for the Research Team in Trier:
01/10/2020 - 30/09/2021
Country:
USA
Email:
hock@uni-trier.de
Phone:
+49 651 201 3162
Room:
DM 10
Research Focus:
- Aesthetic Ideology since the Enlightenment
- Formalism(s)
- Theory and Poetics in Contemporary Russia
Current Research Projects:
Dissertation: “The Orphic Moment: Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Ontology Before and After the Fall of the Soviet Union”
Career:
Current Position:
Wissenschaftlich Mitarbeiter in der DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe „Russischsprachige Lyrik in Transition“ (FOR 2603)
Academic Career:
David Hock graduated with honors from Brown University in 2009 with a degree in Slavic and Comparative Literature and received his M.A. from Princeton in 2014. He took a hiatus from academic life from 2017 – 2020 and is now grateful to be at the University of Trier, where he is finishing his doctoral thesis, “The Orphic Moment: Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Ontology Before and After the Fall of the Soviet Union,” which defines and reconstructs avant-garde ontology and practices in the works of Dmitrii Prigov, Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Aleksandr Skidan, Kirill Medvedev, Anna Glazova, and Nika Skandiaka.