Adam R. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of Global Languages and Cultures. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University in 2014. His first book, Poetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida (Edinburgh University Press 2022), traces the expansive role of gifts and gift-giving in Western poetry, while his second book, Prosthetic Immortalities: Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life (Forthcoming 2024, University of Minnesota Press), asks how tropes of poetic immortality inform biological and transhuman notions of immortal life. He has published essays in SubStance, Poetics Today, Oxford Literary Review, and MLN, is an Associate Editor for the journal Derrida Today, and is sole editor of “Derrida’s Classroom,” a special issue of Poetics Today focusing on the role of Derrida’s seminar writings in his corpus.