(Research)
My research examines twentieth-century literature’s engagement with questions of aesthetic and political theory. In my dissertation, titled “Sovereignty and World-Making: States of Exception in Modernist Literature 1915-1941,” I argue that during the inter-war period, British, Irish, and German writers represent figures of absolute power as grounded in concepts of craft and making. In light of this orientation, which diverges significantly from accounts of sovereignty available in contemporary political philosophy, their narrative innovations tackle problems of leadership, security, and democracy, making critical interventions in global affairs.
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Upcoming Conferences
XXIst International James Joyce Symposium
Re-Nascent Joyce
June 15-20, 2008
Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France
Presenter: Joyce with Spinoza: Legal Fiction and Double Truth
Recent Conferences
International Conference on Narrative
May 1-4, 2008, Austin, TX
Panel Chair: Ethics and/of Formalism in the Twentieth Century
Presenter: “Epic Ethics in Modernity”
American Comparative Literature Association: Arrivals and Departures
April 24-27, 2008, Long Beach, CA
Seminar Organizer: Middle Passages: Poetics and Ethics of Suspension
Presenter: Suspension, not Suspense
Modernist Studies Association: Geographies of Visual and Literary Culture
November 1-4, 2008, Long Beach, CA
Panel Chair: Properties of Utopia: Joyce and Benjamin
Presenter: Sovereign Making in David Jones’ In Parenthesis