Lindsay Parkhowell is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Doctoral Program in Literary Studies. While their dissertation project analyses mouring and time in the literature and media of the Black Atlantic, they have broad interdisciplinary interests and have also published in theatre and performance studies, extinction studies, the history and philosophy of science, and creative writing (poetry).

They hold first-class degrees from Bard College Berlin and the University of Potsdam, and were previously employed as an editor, translator and media officer in the ERC research project Early Modern Cosmology at Ca' Foscari University, Venice (PI Pietro D. Omodeo). Their research has previously been awarded a DAAD Fellowship and a 4-year PhD Fellowship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk, Villigst, and their Master’s thesis was nominated for the GAPS Prize under Prof. Lars Eckstein. They are a founding member of the radical democratic arts collective Avtonomi Akadimia convened by Ioulia Strauss and have presented at documenta 14, the Athens Biennale and other venues.   

Belonging to Time: Mourning and Futurity in Black Diasporic Imaginaries is a dissertation project centered on how to mourn for the 'loss of loss itself'. This research question emerges from Judith Butler's afterword to Loss: The Politics of Mourning (2003), where they write that "somewhere, sometime, something was lost, but no story can be told about it; no memory can retrieve it..." (467), and yet the challenge of mourning for such unidentifiable losses has been consistently faced and even overcome by writers in the Black Diaspora. By analysing six temporal and archival strategies employed in post-war Black art and literature—anterospection, untelling, discontinuity, the ensemble, ancestral infinity, and longevity—it is possible to show that mourning for the 'loss of loss itself' is achievable as a means to imagine alternative, more collective futures. Furthermore, the performance of such radical mourning undermines the strictly Freudian binary between mourning and melancholia, and redefines mourning itself as the project of re-establishing the temporal boundaries between past, present and future that were invaded or even dissolved by colonial modernity. This definition reads the Black Arts movement and its legacies against post-structuralist theories of subjectivization in order to produce a more pluralist and anti-monadic definition of the subject. Furthermore, the variety of case studies involved, from jazz music to sculpture to the original slave narratives and contemporary novels, also suggests a crucial connection between artistic practice and these future imaginaries. By raising a set of questions common to both Black and Gender studies, including the ideas of impossible speech, chosen origins, and alternative temporalities, it is possible to argue against a normative definition of time and tell the story that Butler argues can never be retrieved. Finally, due to the ascendant relevance of mourning in the environmental humanities, this dissertation project will also be of interest to scholars working in the field of "minor" ecologies. 

A Political Epistemology for Extinction Studies? On the Ideas of Preservation and Replenishment. Prisms: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Postdramatic Katharsis and Milo Rau’s Global Realism. Documenta (43:1), (forthcoming 2025).

Healing the Sacred Wound through Haptic Renewal. European Women’s Journal Special Issue, 2025 (forthcoming 2025).

Antigone and the Sublime: Acts of Impossible Affirmation. Humanities Bulletin, 7(1), 2024.

Alexius Meinong: General Remarks on the Theory of Dispositions. Trans. Lindsay Parkhowell and Sascha Freyberg. JOLMA The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 2020. 

Towards Another Sublime, Away from the Aesthetics of Destruction, co-authored with Pietro Omodeo, published in Azimuth: Philosophical Coordinates Between Modern and Contemporary Age, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2019.

Book Reviews: 

Die Rückeroberung der Zukunft: Ein Essay. European Journal of Theatre and Performance (2025, forthcoming).

Irony and Historical Detachment, Public Seminar, June 2018 (New School for Social Research online journal).

Edited, co-edited or translated Volumes:

Elkana, Yehuda, and Krois, John Michael. Rethinking the Enlightenment: Dialogues with Ernst Cassirer. Venice: Verum Factum, 2022.

Miguel, Marlon, et al., eds. Materialism and Politics. Berlin: ICI Press, 2021.

Omodeo Pietro D. Political Epistemology: The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies. Dordrecht: Springer, 2019.

Winkler, Rose-Luise, An unpublished manuscript from Boris M. Hessen: “Materials and Documents about the History of Physics.” Venice: Verum Factum, 2019.

Strauss, Ioulia et. al. Education/Migration. Athens: Krytyka Polityczna, 2017