Theodore Cao
M.A. Student
Theodore Cao
Contact
Email: shunci.cao@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Peking University
Research Interests
Ethics of witness and memory
Philosophy of poetry
Phenomenology and psychopathology
Feminist and queer theory
Department
Biography
Theo started from the interdisciplinary research of phenomenology and psychopathology, focusing especially on schizophrenia, ASD and anorexia nervosa. He then turned to the poetics of Paul Celan, which again led him to the ethics of memory and witness in Levinas' and Derrida's philosophy. Also, feminist and queer theory have always been his concern. He is a poet and an actor when not working on papers.
PUBLICATIONS
Cao, Shunci and Meng Yang. “The Ambiguous Image of the ‘Mediator’: Roman-Jewish Relation from the End of the Republic to the Rise of the Empire on Coins of Herod the Great.” Jewish Studies 25 (June 2025): 100-114.