Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures (on leave spring term)
B.A.,
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; Critical and Cultural Theory; Gender Studies; Problems of Ecology and Technology.
The War Against the Beavers: Learning to Be Wild in the North Woods (Minnesota, 2005) |
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Major Publications:
- Fictional Spaces: Space, Globalization and Subjectivity in Contemporary French Thought (in progress)
- Littérature, Politique et communisme: Lire "Les Lettres françaises," 1942-1972 (New York: Lang, 2004)
- The War with the Beavers: Learning to be Wild in the North Woods (Minnesota, 2003; 2005)
- Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought (Routledge, 1997)
- Rethinking Technologies, ed. (Minnesota, 1993; 1997)
- Hélène Cixous (Toronto, 1992)
- Hélène Cixous, Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector and Tsvetaeva, ed., trans and introduced (Minnesota, 1991).
- Hélène Cixous, Reading with Clarice Lispector, ed., trans. and introduced (Minnesota, 1990).
- Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine (Nebraska, 1984; 1991)
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Some Recent Articles:
"Chaosmopolis," Theory of Culture and Society 19, 1-2 (2002), special issue on "Cosmopolis,"185-198.
"Processual Practices," Southern Atlantic Quarterly, 100.2 (Spring 2001), special number on Michel de Certeau, 483-500.
"The Passenger: Paul Virilio," Theory of Culture and Society 16, 5-6 (October-December 1999); reprinted in Paul Virilio (Sage, 2000).
"Whither the Virtual: Slavoj Zizek and Cyberfeminism," in Angelaki, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 4. 2 (1999), 129-137.
"Becoming Woman Now," in Deleuze and Feminist Theory, Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook eds. (Edinburgh, 2000), 18-37.
"Hommage à Hélène Cixous," in H.C., Croisées d'une oeuvre (Galilée, 2001), 343-352. |
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Courses taught 2008-2009:
French 170. The City (spring term)
Literature 146. Space and Place in Postmodern Culture (spring term)
Other courses offered:
[
Literature 104. On Theory
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[ Literature 143 (formerly *Literature 136). Writers and Their Medium ]
[ French 271. Legacies of Poststructuralism: An Introduction ]
[ French 273. Globalization and French Culture ]
For more information, go to the Romance Languages and Literatures course catalogue.
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