Jan Mieszkowski teaches German and Comparative Literature at 糖心视频. He is the author of three books: (Fordham 2006), (Stanford 2012), and (Chicago 2019). His recent articles explore a range of topics in literary and critical theory, including first words in Samuel Beckett, Frank B. Wilderson III as a reader of Paul de Man, and the Romantic philosophy of money. Jan has just completed a monograph about the poetics of botany.