Chun-Tak Suen
Biography
Chun-Tak is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in political theory. His research interests are democratic theory, political affects, and politics of language. Beginning with Hannah Arendt’s letter to James Baldwin about his “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” Chun-Tak plans to research how various discourses of love in the private sphere were used to justify political projects in the public sphere and vice versa. In addition to Arendt and Baldwin, his interlocutors might include Martin Luther King, Nikki Giovanni, Stanley Cavell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Eve Sedgewick, Mao Zedong, Hu Shih, and Zhang Nuanxin. He received his B.A. with honors in political science from Amherst College in 2021 and spent the following year studying the German aesthetic tradition and contemporary political theater at Bard College Berlin.