Miguel Tamen
Visiting Professor of Portuguese Literature; Director, Programa em Teoria da Literatura, Universidade de Lisboa
mtamen@uchicago.edu
Miguel Tamen specializes in philosophy and literature and Portuguese literature. His interests include the philosophy of language, interpretation, and moral philosophy, as well as aesthetics. He is Professor of Literary Theory and Chair of the Program in Literary Theory, University of Lisbon. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago since 2000. His first book won the Portuguese PEN Club Essay Award (1987). He is the author of six books, among which are Friends of Interpretable Objects (Harvard UP, 2001) and The Matter of the Facts (Stanford UP, 2000). Two more books are forthcoming.
Education
- PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, 1989
Awards, Honors, and Professional Experience
- Professor of Literary Theory and Chair of the Program in Literary Theory, University of Lisbon
- Portuguese PEN Club Essay Award, 1987
Selected Courses Taught
- Fernando Pessoa
- Portuguese Poetry
- Metaphysics as a Disease
- Self-Examination
- Portuguese Obituaries
- The Nightmare of Culture
- Camões and The Lusiads
- Proust on Interpretation
- Things Poets Say
- The Alice Books