Brigid Doherty

Brigid Doherty teaches in the Departments of German and Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, where she is also an associated faculty member in the School of Architecture and a member of the Executive Committees of the Programs in European Cultural Studies and Media + Modernity. This academic year at Princeton, she is co-organizing, with psychoanalyst Ben Kafka, a new Seminar in Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Studies, drawing on her own experiences as an Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis in 2006-07 and as the Erikson Scholar of the Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center in 2024. Her scholarship on twentieth-century German culture includes essays in Critical Inquiry, October, and MLN on Berlin Dada, Bertolt Brecht, and Rainer Maria Rilke. She is a co-editor of Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media (Harvard, 2008) and author of numerous exhibition catalogues, including Rosemarie Trockel: A Gift of My Parents (Walther König, 2020).