Michael Mango studies the intersection of philosophy and religious thought in twentieth-century Europe, with a particular interest in Germany and France in the years between the world wars. His current research examines the varied and often contradictory functions that appeals to the body and to nature served in the philosophical, theological, and political debates of this period. In his dissertation he approaches this topic through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s ambivalent reception of vitalist currents in interwar culture. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School.