Appointment of Eduardo Cadava as Master of Wilson College

The following memo was sent from the Wilson College Office to members of the Wilson College community on May 6, 2009. It is reprinted here with permission from the College Office.

 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

May 6, 2009

TO:              Members of the Wilson College Community

FROM:         Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Dean of the College
                   Kathleen Deignan, Dean of Undergraduate Students

SUBJECT:    Wilson College Mastership

We write with great pleasure to announce the appointment of the next Master of Wilson College, Professor Eduardo Lujan Cadava of the Department of English, who will begin a four-year term on July 1, 2009.

A graduate of the University of Arizona (B.A. 1979) and the University of California, Irvine (M.A., 1983, Ph.D. in English and Literary Theory, 1988), Professor Cadava joined the Princeton faculty as Assistant Professor of English in 1989.  He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998 and to Professor in 2004.    He served as Departmental Representative in English from 1999-2002 and 2007-08.  He also is an associate member of the Department of Comparative Literature, the School of Architecture, the Center for African American Studies, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Professor Cadava specializes in American literature and culture, literary and political theory, comparative literature, media technologies, and theory of translation. He offers a wide range of undergraduate courses, including English 204, “The American Literary Tradition:  From the Colonial Period to the Civil War,” English 371, “Contemporary Literary Theory,” and European Cultural Studies 340, “Literature and Photography.” 

He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (1997) and Emerson and the Climates of History (1997), and co-editor of Who Comes After the Subject? (1991), Cities Without Citizens (2004), and a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly entitled And Justice for All?: The Claims of Human Rights (2004). He has published articles on, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walter Benjamin, and Franz Kafka, and on topics ranging from photography, architecture, democracy, and war, to memory, slavery, and the ethics of decision. He is currently finishing a collection of essays on the ethics and politics of mourning entitled Of Mourning and a small book on the relation between music and techniques of reproduction, memorization, and writing entitled Music on Bones. 

Professor Cadava combines qualities that make for outstanding success in residential college masterships:  excellence in undergraduate teaching; experience in administration; imagination and enthusiasm about the possibilities for education in a residential setting; and obvious enjoyment of students.  He has been deeply immersed in the residential college system, first as Resident Faculty Member at Wilson College from 1990 to 1997, and then as Senior Faculty Fellow at Forbes College from 2002 to 2007.

Professor Cadava is married to Dr. Liana Theodoratou, Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Language and Culture Programs in the Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies at New York University.  They have one son, Geraldo, who is an Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.