Overview
Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. His translations include Roberto Esposito’s Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Minnesota, 2008) and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Stanford, 2010), and he is the co-translator (with Lia Turtas) of Carlo Diano's Form and Event (Fordham, 2018). He is also the author of Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life (Fordham, 2017) and more recently The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession (Minnesota, 2023), co-authored with Grant Farred.
He is also PI of the 2023 New Frontier Grant project, The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid.
Currently, he is working two projects: the first titled "Useless Democracies" and the second on contemporary governance.
Research Focus
- Contemporary Italian Thought
- Global Health and its Institutions
- The Biopolitics of Covid
Publications
Books
- The Biopolitics of Global Health, with Yasmeen Arif, Davide Tarizzo, and Esca van Blarikom, Fordham University Press (under contract)
- The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession, with Grant Farred, University of Minnesota Press
- Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life, Fordham University Press, 2017.
- Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben, University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
- Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
