Alex Ruhsenberger, a Ph.D. candidate who studies World Literature (1945-present), Post-Colonialism, and Critical Theory. Additional research interests include Revolution, Media studies, and Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics as a method for reading history and literature. Ruhsenberger got his M.A. from Montana State University, and did his thesis on the problems of American happiness and irony in popular culture in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The thesis, in part, is published in Normal 2016: Selected Works. Ruhsenberger has just completed a project on Revolution, the Will, and Hannah Arendt, which will soon be out for review. Ruhsenberger is also working on a project that deals with media, violence, and ideology, and its relationship in Western Culture to the Roman Colosseum.
Alex Ruhsenberger