Assistant Professor
guyer@wisc.edu
PhD, Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley, 2001
MA, Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley, 1999
MA, Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick,
1996
BA, English and American Literature, Brandeis University,
1994
British and Continental Romanticism, critical theory, philosophy and literature, post-Holocaust writing, the lyric.
Book: Romanticism after Auschwitz (Stanford University Press, forthcoming);
Articles & Reviews:
"The Pardon of the Disaster." SubStance. Special Issue on "Law and Literature" 35: 1 (2006); "'Remembering, Repeating…': Review of Dominick LaCapra, History in Transit and Amy Hungerford, The Holocaust of Texts." Contemporary Literature 46 (Winter 2005); "Breath, Today: Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 71." Comparative Literature 57: 4 (Fall 2005); "The Girl with the Open Mouth: Through the Looking Glass." Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. Special Issue on "Hotel Psychoanalysis." Ed. Sarah Wood 9: 1 (April 2004): 159-63; "'At the Far Edge of this Ongoing Enterprise…'" Romantic Circle Praxis Series, special Issue on "The Legacies of Paul de Man." Ed. Marc Redfield (2004). http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/deman/guyer/guyer.html; Reprinted in The Legacies of Paul de Man, Ed. Marc Redfield. New York: Fordham UP, forthcoming; "Maurice Blanchot." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century European Cultural Theorists. Vol. 2. Ed. Paul Hansom (Gale, 2004): 40-52; "Wordsworthian Wakefulness." The Yale Journal of Criticism 16:1 (April 2003): 93-112; "Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness" (Book Review). Modern Language Notes 116. 5 (2001): 1115-18; "Being-Destroyed: Anthropomorphizing L'espèce humaine." Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust. Ed. Dan Stone (Rodopi, 2001): 103-26; "Albeit Eating: Toward an Ethics of Cannibalism." Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 2: 1 (1995): 63-80. "Testimony and Trope in Frankenstein." Studies in Romanticism (forthcoming); "The Rhetoric of Survival." Studies in Romanticism. Special Issue on "The Legacy of Jacques Derrida." Ed. David Clark (forthcoming); "Buccality." Derrida/Deleuze, and Psychoanalysis, ed. Gabriele M. Schwab (Columbia UP, forthcoming); "From Minor to Minoritarian (Clare)." Romantic Difference. Ed. Theresa Kelley (forthcoming); "Derridas Mouth." CR: The New Centennial Review. Special Issue on "Remainders: Of Jacques Derrida" (forthcoming).
Romanticism after Auschwitz (Stanford UP, forthcoming) analyzes the rhetoric of survival in romantic and post-Holocaust writing. Through close readings of highly canonical texts (including Frankenstein, Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, and Resnais's Night and Fog) and texts that remain under-read (including Wordsworth's sonnets "To Sleep," Celan's translations and Antelme's The Human Race) the book reveals how one of the most insistently anti-romantic discourses, post-Holocaust testimony, relies upon the figures of speech and writing central to conventional accounts of romanticism. The book demonstrates that this recurrence compels a thorough rethinking of romanticism and its rhetoric.
I am co-editor (with Steven Miller) of a forthcoming collection on Literature and the Right to Marriage, which includes essays by Branka Arsic, Will Bishop, Michel Feher, Peter Fenves, Susannah Young-Ah Gottlieb, J. Hillis Miller, and Thomas Pepper. I also am in the process of editing a special issue of Romantic Circles Praxis on "Romanticism and Form." Contributors include William Flesch, Charles Mahoney, and Forest Pyle.
Two new projects are underway: the first project focuses on the poetics of homelessness in John Clare and Friedrich Hölderlin; the second project involves readings of philosophy, literature, and psychoanalysis (from Descartes to Nancy, via Wordsworth, Carroll, Beckett, and Klein) in an effort to articulate a theory of literature that would be oriented by the mouth rather than the face.
Current and forthcoming courses on "The Theory of Romanticism," "Romantic Autobiographies, " "Romantic Natures," "Testimony," Jacques Derrida and Modern Jewish Thought, "Literature and Death," and "The Rhetoric of Survival in Post-Holocaust Literature and Theory."