Rate My Professor Sigi Jottkandt

Jottkandt's key publications include the monograph The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame (Open Humanities Press, 2024), which explores the future of reading as reverse interpretation; Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic (SUNY Press, 2005); and First Love: A Phenomenology of the One: Beckett, Turgenev, Clare, Welty, Kierkegaard (re.press, 2010). She has edited collections such as Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales (Open Humanities Press, 2024, with Prudence Gibson et al.), Penumbra: Counter-memories of the Present (re.press, 2013, with Joan Copjec), and The Catastrophic Imperative: Time, Subjectivity, Memory in Contemporary Thought (Palgrave, 2009, with Dominiek Hoens and Gert Buelens). Other notable works include chapters like 'Modern Love Theory' in Understanding Modernism, Understanding Badiou (Bloomsbury, 2024) and articles such as 'History's Hard Sign: Vladimir Nabokov's The Visit to the Museum' in S: Journal (2020). In 2014, she received UNSW's Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence. She collaborates on an ARC Linkage grant investigating the aesthetic value of Australian herbaria and has delivered public lectures at venues including the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, MaMa Institute in Zagreb, and IIT Gandhinagar. She teaches across the English program, integrating visual texts into literary theory discussions.