Miguel Tamen
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Classics 118
Phone: 773/834-8739
Email: mtamen@uchicago.edu
Visiting Professor, Universidade de Lisboa, Program in Literary Theory
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
- Ph.D. 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.