Josh Torabi

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Josh Torabi is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies where he is working on two book projects: an edited collection on Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche and his second monograph, tentatively entitled In Search of the Universal: The Aesthetics of Wagner, Nietzsche, and Joyce. Prior to joining the ILCS, Dr Torabi was a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin from 2022 to 2024. Dr Torabi is a comparatist working on the aesthetic intersections between literature, music, and philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from University College London 2020 and has held funded scholarships and visiting fellowships at Yale University, the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, the ILCS, and Queen Mary University of London. His first book, Music and Myth in Modern Literature, was published by Routledge in 2021. He has published several journal articles and book chapters on the relationship between music and literature. He has taught 19th- and 20th-century literature, literary theory, health humanities, and modern German thought at Trinity College Dublin, Queen Mary University of London, University College London, and Richmond American University London.