OSUN Faculty

Thomas Bartscherer

Thomas Bartscherer works in the humanities and the arts and on the study of liberal education and politics. He is co-editor of the new critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind (forthcoming, 2024) and When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2023). Other projects include "Stranger Love", a 6-hour opera commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, created with composer Dylan Mattingly, which premiered at the LA Phil in 2023. Bartscherer also writes on technology, new media, and contemporary art. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern and Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, both from the University of Chicago Press. He is a Senior Fellow at Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center and has previously held fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure, and the Universities of Heidelberg, and was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Film Studies at Berlin’s Freie Universität.