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Maya Kronfeld, Assistant Professor of Literature edit Maya Kronfeld is Assistant Professor of Theory in the Literature Program at Duke University, with secondary appointments in the Philosophy Department and the Music Department. After completing her PhD in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, Kronfeld was the Cotsen fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows. Her book project, Spontaneous Form: Philosophy, Literature, Jazz integrates studies of literary Romanticism and Modernism with Kantian and post-Kantian approaches to the philosophy of mind and Black Music Studies. Her work appears in Radical Philosophy, Review of English Studies, Jazz & Culture, Philosophy and Literature, and is forthcoming in Boundary 2, Political Concepts, 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's research areas of focus include Literature and Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literary Theory, Hume, Kant, William James, Bertrand Russell, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, English and French Romanticism and Modernism, Jazz and Black Music Studies, African-American Literature, Philosophy of Mind, Critical Epistemology, Cognitive Metaphor Theory.
Kronfeld is also a professional pianist who has collaborated with Georgia Anne Muldrow, Taylor Eigsti, Toshi Reagon, Nona Hendryx, Thana Alexa and Sánchez, and Christian McBride, among others, 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 Festivals. She played keyboards on Nicole Zuraitis’ 2024 Grammy-Winning Album, and her keyboard work with Eigsti is currently Grammy-nominated for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album of 2025.
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Web Page: https://stanfordjazz.org/more-info/maya-kronfeld/
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2020
Teaching (Fall 2025):
- LIT 290S.01, Special topics in literature
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 107, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- LIT 890S.01, Seminars in lit (topics)
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 107, Th 01:25 PM-03:55 PM
- Recent Publications
- Redmond, SL; Baron, D; Chambers-Letson, J; Kronfeld, M; Morrison, M; Richards, J. "Listening, Elsewhere and Otherwise A Collective Listening to Shana L. Redmond’s “The Dark Prelude”." Journal of Popular Music Studies 36.4 (December, 2024): 5-24. [doi]
- 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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