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Jacques LezraDirector of Graduate Studies; Professor of English
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Degrees and InstitutionsPhD, Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1990 Research InterestsComparative literature and literary theory; Shakespeare; the literary and visual culture of Early Modern Europe. Selected PublicationsUnspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (Stanford 1997); Visión y ceguera: Ensayos sobre la retórica de la crítica contemporánea, an ed. and tr. of Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1992); ed. Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading (Yale 1995); ed., Suplemento al Tesoro de la Lengua Española Castellana de Sebastián de Covarrubias (Polifemo 2001); articles on Althusser, Freud, Foucault, Goya and Wittgenstein, Stein, Cervantes, Shakespeare. Current ProjectsI am completing work on two books, The Political Economy of the Soul: Imagining "Spain" in the Golden Age, on the uses to which Spanish fascism in the 1930's to middle 1940's puts the literary and visual culture of the Golden Age; and The Ethic of Terror in Radical Democracy, on the notion of "constitutive antagonism" in the social sphere (with chapters on Poe, Marx with Kant, the Unabomber, Levinas's essay "Substitution," ETA's assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco, Pontecorvo's film The Battle of Algiers, etc.). The forthcoming Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory features my long entry on "Kant and Hegel." Graduate TeachingGraduate seminars on critical methods, on "The Subject in Theory," on "Ethics/Terror/Aesthetics," on "Allegory and Materialism," on "Literature and Philosophy of the Sublime," and on "Fetishism." Undergraduate TeachingClasses on "Aesthetics and Social Change" in 20th Century American literature; on "Postmodernism in 'America';" on "Literature and Philosophy," "Literature and Psychoanalysis,"and "Literature and Ideology;" on "El Barroco transatlántico." |
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