Klaus Li Kytayko
MA Student
| Degrees: | BA (Carleton University) |
Research Topic
Reconceptualizing gender as a form of existential self-expression and/or style
Research Interests
- Continental philosophy (existentialism, critical theory)
- Queer/gender theory
- Aesthetics
Biography
Klaus completed their Bachelor of Arts (Honours with High Distinction) in Philosophy at Carleton University. His research surrounds the possibility of deconstructing gender and moving towards an expressive paradigm that interprets, holistically, the body as an opening through which individual modes of style can be both freely recognized and proliferated without appeal to reified concepts (namely, gender). In her free time, Klaus enjoys reading and writing queer literature, as well as exploring how queer subjectivities are realized and expressed in various cultural and literary contexts.