Johns Hopkins University

My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophy and literature, narrative theory, ethics and politics. Specifically, my thesis research focuses on the uses of different narrative constructs in philosophical texts in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century, and the tension between representation and truth in the context of political freedom.

Hale Sirin is a first year doctoral student in the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. She received her MA at the University of Chicago in Social Sciences and, under the supervision of David Wellbery, wrote the thesis “The Crisis of Narrative: Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus and Maurice Blanchot’s L'Arrêt de mort”.