Julia Ng is Reader in Critical Theory and founding Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her publications include her translation and co-edition of Walter Benjamin’s Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition (Stanford University Press, 2021) and “Each Thing a Thief: Walter Benjamin on the Agency of Objects” (Philosophy and Rhetoric 44.4 [2011]), the first sustained analysis of Benjamin’s “Karl Kraus” essay and Timon of Athens. In 2018, she co-organized a conference on Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare at the Warburg Institute.
Julia co-organized the event on Thinking about Shakespeare and Film (2023), at which she also spoke, and was a speaker at the events on Shakespeare and the Frankfurt School (2022) and Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare (2019).
Shakespeare in Philosophy 