Benjamin Bennett

Benjamin Bennett is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia, USA. His recent books include All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater (2005), The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read (2008), and Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism: Its Trail from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler (2013). He has been the recipient of the MLA's James Russell Lowell prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an ACLS Fellowship.