Adam Rzepka, faculty at Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies

Adam Rzepka

Adam Rzepka has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago, and teaches early modern literature and critical theory at Montclair State University. Bits of his primary book project, Making Experience: Shakespeare and the Production of Immediacy, have been published in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, and multiple edited volumes from Oxford University Press, Edinburgh University Press, and Palgrave, along with articles on affective dynamics, experimental opera, mnemonic systems, and the death drive. Recently, he has been publishing short public pieces against genocide and in defense of higher education. Outside of Montclair State, he teaches in prisons.

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