Eduardo Cadava

Cadava is Professor of English at Princeton University, where he also is affiliated with the Program in Media and Modernity, the School of Architecture, the Center for African American Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. He has written extensively on topics ranging across literature, philosophy, photography, architecture, and music, focusing on issues concerning democracy, war, race and slavery, human rights and citizenship, and the relations between memory and forgetting. He has published three books, co-edited three books, published over sixty essays, and translated several works from French into English. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History, Emerson and the Climates of History, and, with Fazal Sheikh, Fazal Sheikh: Portraits. He has co-edited Who Comes After the Subject?, Cities Without Citizens (for Slought), and The Itinerant Languages of Photography. Cadava is on the Board of Directors of Slought, with the role of President, and served on the Advisory Committee of Slought from 2002-2013.