Overview
Scott is a first-year PhD student at Cornell. He earned his B. A. in the College of Letters and German Studies at Wesleyan University and studied Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz with the support of the DAAD in pursuit of his M. A. In Konstanz, Scott worked as a research assistant in the American Studies Department and at the Center for Cultural Inquiry, which ultimately informed his Master’s thesis, “More and Beyond: Rethinking Utopia as Affective Infrastructure.” Continually working across disciplines, his work is a direct reflection of the aspirational aims of interdisciplinarity yet with a distinctly literary perspective.
Scott’s primary research interests include critical theory, Transnational Modernism(s), and poetics. Recently, he has been exploring the discursive relationship between individual, identity, and community within the context of multipolarity.