Professor
Office Location:
Phelps 5317
Specialization:
Professor of French
Affiliate in Comparative Literature
Director of Graduate Studies and vice-chair in Comparative Literature
Bio:
Educational Background
- New York University, 1989-97, MA 1991, Ph.D. 1997
- École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, 1994-5
- University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1984-8, BA 1988, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
- Université de Paris III, 1986-7
Academic Awards and Distinctions
- Regents' Humanities Faculty Fellowship, UCSB Fall 2008.
- Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Faculty Award, UCSB, 2002
- Faculty Career Development Award, UCSB, 1999, 2002
- Dean's Award for Best Dissertation in the Humanities, NYU 1997
- Bourse Chateaubriand, 1994-95
- Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, 1988-89
Research Interests
- Twentieth-century literature and Theory
- Francophone Literature and culture; Postcolonial Theory
- Music and literature
- Spatial studies; geocriticism
Selected Publications
Books:
- Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Selected Articles:
- "Geocriticism Meets Ecocriticism: Bertrand Westphal and Environmental Thinking." Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies. Ed. Robert Tally and Christine Battista. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016. 19-36.
- "Towards a Geocriticism of Shanty Literature." Géocritique: état des lieux/Geocriticism: A Survey. Eds. Bertrand Westphal & Clément Lévy. Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2014, 118-125.
- "Settling Scores with Vinteuil: Musical Textures in Proust and Echenoz." Romance Studies, Vol. 32 No. 2, April 2014, 99–111.
- "Koffi Kwahulé’s Coltranean Theatre of Cruelty.” Modernist Cultures 8.1 (2013), 138–156.
- "Adaptation and Adaptability in Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron." Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. 48, No. 2 (2012), 118-133.
- "Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, and Beyond." Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Robert Tally Jr. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2011. 13-27.
- "Edouard Glissant, Littérature-monde, and Tout-monde." Small Axe 33 (November 2010), 111-120.
- "Swung Subjectivity in Jacques Réda." Paragraph 33:2 (2010), 230-245.
- "Paris à l'improviste: Jacques Réda, Jazz, and Sub-Urban Beauty." SubStance, #119, Vol. 38, no. 2, 2009, 1-24.
- "Musical Imprints and Mimetic Echoes in Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe." L'esprit créateur, Vol. 47, No. 2, Summer 2007. 17-32.
- "The Uses of Landscape: Ecocriticism and Martinican Cultural Theory." Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture. Ed. DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M, Rene?e K. Gosson, and George B. Handley. University of Virginia Press, 2005. 236-246.
- "Deleuze, Music, and Modernist Mimesis." Word and Music Studies, Vol VII. Ed. Suzanne Lodato and Walter Bernhart. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2005. 3-20.
- "Rhetoric of the Belleville Novel." Sites: The Journal of 20th-Century/ Contemporary French Studies, Vol 8. No. 1, January 2004. 31-41.
Work in Progress
- Currently working on a book on the geopoetics of shanty towns and squatter cities.
Quarter | Course | Title |
Spring 2013 | CL 200 | Contingency in Caribbean Literature (with Juan Pablo Lupi) |
Winter 2013 | FR 154G | Post-Colonial Cultures |
Fall 2012 | FR 104B | Writing the Self |
Spring 2012 | FR 104B | Writing the Self |
Winter 2012 | FR 26 | Advanced Composition |
Winter 2012 | FR 154G | Post-Colonial Cultures |
Fall 2011 | CL200/Fr230B | Pan-Caribbean Literature |
Fall 2011 | C LIT 34 | Literature of the Americas |
Spring 2011 | Fr 149D | Post-War Avant-Gardes |
Spring 2011 | Fr 104B | Writing the Self |