Eduardo Cadava

Eduardo Cadava is Professor of English at Princeton University, where he is also an Associate Member of the Departments of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese, the School of Architecture, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

He is a faculty member in the summer program at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and he has been the Benjamin Menschel Distinguished Visiting Professor in Architecture at Cooper Union. He is the author of “Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History”, “Emerson and the Climates of History”, and, with Fazal Sheikh, of “Fazal Sheikh: Portraits”.

He also has co-edited “Who Comes After the Subject?”, “Cities Without Citizens”, a special issue of the “South Atlantic Quarterly” entitled “And Justice for All?: The Claims of Human Rights”, and “The Itinerant Languages of Photography”.

He has co-curated installations and exhibitions at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, Storefront for Art and Architecture in N​ew York, the Al-Ma’mal Center for Contemporary Art in East Jerusalem, and the Princeton University Art Museum.

He has translated several works by Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Maurice Blanchot, and recently has introduced and co-translated Nadar's memoirs, “Quand j'étais photographe”.

A collection of his essays on photography has appeared in Spanish under the title “La imagen en ruinas”, and his book “Paper Graveyards: Essays on Art and Photography” is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.