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Raphael Koenig is currently a Leonard A. Lauder Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum’s Research Center for Modern Art (NYC). He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, where he defended his dissertation on the French and German avant-gardes’ reception of the “art of the insane” and “art brut” in 2018. He is a graduate of the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, and holds an agrégation in Modern French Literature. He published art and cinema criticism in Artpress, Raw Vision, Art Papers, and La Nouvelle Quinzaine Littéraire.