Andrew Wright

LLB (QUT), BA (Hons) (UNSW)
UPA holder and Ph D candidate
c/- Italian Studies, Mungo Macallum Building


Andrew Wright is in the final year of his PhD candidature. His thesis is a comparative reading of texts by Melville, Kafka and Blanchot, which he explores as exemplary literatures of conflict. Conflict is defined using Hegel's dialecticism and then elaborated on, using the concept of 'negativity' as it is found in many critical theorists following Hegel and Kant, including Agamben, Heidegger, Derrida and Blanchot (in his guise as theorist). While the methodology he uses is broadly phenomenological, the theoretical framework for the methodology is drawn from literary philosophy, the philosophy of language and critical theory.

Andrew has a degree in Law (QUT, 1993) and honours in English (UNSW 2003), with a thesis on Ted Hughes's poetry and ecocritical theory. He is an intermediate-level speaker of French.

• Philosophy of 'negativity'
• Kafka, Melville, Blanchot studies
• Critical theory