Khôra Martel
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Khôra Martel
Lecturer
Khôra Martel joined the faculty as Lecturer of Judaic Studies & World Religion in August of 2023. A graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, she received both of her doctorates— in Religion, Philosophy & Visual Culture and in Comparative Literature— from the University of Chicago. Her work interrogates the relationship between philosophy, religion, and literature, particularly within Modernism, lyric poetry, classical reception, European Judaism, Neopaganism, and Western esotericism. Of particular interest to her are the concepts of world, horror, and the alien, as well as issues within ontology, psychoanalysis, theory-fiction and the global Weird tradition. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in various popular and academic outlets, and she is currently working on a substantial piece of theory-fiction involving queer theory, constructed languages, astrology, and the legacy of Robert Chambers, as well as a monograph on the philosophical and poetic history of the alien.