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Maya Kronfeld, Assistant Professor of Literature edit Kronfeld's research areas of focus include Literature and Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literary Theory, Kant, Hume, English and French Romanticism and Modernism, Jazz and Black Music Studies, African-American Literature, Philosophy of Mind, Critical Epistemology, Cognitive Metaphor Theory.
Kronfeld was the Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanistic Studies in the Princeton Society of Fellows from 2020-2023 after completing her PhD in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Her book project, Spontaneous Form: Consciousness and Philosophical Fiction integrates literary studies with Kantian approaches to the philosophy of mind and jazz studies. Her work appears in The Review of English Studies, Radical Philosophy and Jazz & Culture and is forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature, as well as The Cambridge Companion to Philosophy and Literature , the Cambridge Guide to Kant and Literary Studies and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory.
Kronfeld is also a professional pianist who has collaborated with Georgia Anne Muldrow, Toshi Reagon, Nona Hendryx, Thana Alexa and Antonio Sanchez, Christian McBride, and Taylor Eigsti, and lent her skills to drummer-led projects by Justin Brown, Blaque Dynamite, Nikki Glaspie and Thomas Pridgen. She is piano faculty at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and performed most recently at the Newport and Monterey Jazz FestivalsEmail Address:  
Web Page: https://duke.academia.edu/MayaKronfeld
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2020
Teaching (Fall 2024):
- LIT 89S.01, First-year seminar (top)
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 102, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- LIT 890S.01, Seminars in lit (topics)
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 126, F 01:25 PM-03:55 PM
Teaching (Spring 2025): - PHIL 331.01, Kant
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 107, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- LIT 890S.01, Seminars in lit (topics)
Synopsis
- Biddle 104, F 11:45 AM-02:15 PM
- Recent Publications
- Kronfeld, M. ""Prufrock" between Acquaintance and Description: Bertrand Russell and T. S. Eliot." Philosophy and Literature 47.1 (April, 2023): 167-183. [doi] [abs]
- Kronfeld, M. "What Is Holding Us Together? David Hume, Edgar Allan Poe and the Problem of Association." Review of English Studies 73.312 (November, 2022): 934-953. [doi] [abs]
- Kronfeld, M. "Structure in the Moment: Rhythm Section Responsivity." Jazz and Culture 4.2 (October, 2021): 14-22. [doi]
- Kronfeld, M. "The Philosopher's Bass Drum: Adorno's Jazz and the Politics of Rhythm." Radical Philosophy 205 (2019): 34-47.
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