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Class of 1987, On the Internet: Noga ArikhaFROM: Noga Arikha .comNoga Arikha is a historian of ideas, particularly interested in the relation between mind and body, and in tracing the genealogy of the concepts that pertain to it. Though she began her historical studies by focusing on early modern Europe, her interests encompass a wide range of periods and cultures, and her work straddles a multiplicity of disciplines, from philosophy, the cognitive and mind sciences, and anthropology, to the histories of science, psychology, medicine, art, and food. She endeavours to bridge the divide between the "two cultures" - the sciences and the humanities - and to bring to a general audience accessible accounts that analyse the origins of our deepest concerns about our embodied selves. Noga Arikha was born in Paris and raised there, speaking French at school but English at home. Her mother is a poet, her father a painter and art historian, and her sister a fiction writer. At the age of 19, she settled in London, where she followed a foundation art course (at Heatherley's Fine Art) before studying for a BA in German and Philosophy at King's College, London. After a brief but formative spell in New York, in 1993, interning as an assistant editor at the New York Review of Books, she returned to London and joined the Warburg Institute, where she studied the history of ideas, earning an MA in 1996 and a PhD in 2001 ("Adam's Spectacles: Nature, Mind and Body in the Age of Mechanism", partly available here). After spending some months co-curating, with Gloria Origgi, a trilingual, online conference on the impact of the Internet on texts and culture, text-e (eventually published), she returned to New York in September 2002 to take up the "Arts and Neuroscience" Fellowship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, at Columbia (2002-03), where she mainly worked on her first book project. She was then offered a job as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Bard College, upstate NY, to where she commuted from 2003 to end 2005, teaching a freshman "Great Books" seminar on the theme "What is Enlightenment?", and a course on the history of medicine and psychiatry. Between January and May 2007 she is teaching a seminar entitled "The History of the Body as Matter, from the Paleolithic to the Post-Modern" at the Bard Graduate Center, NYC. She and her husband, an Italian professor and writer, live mainly in New York, though still spend a few months a year in London and on the Continent, and from September 2007 to May 2008 they will be based in Bologna, Italy. SOURCE: http://www.nogaarikha.com/bio.htm |
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