PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

“Indifferent Memory: Beckett, Naipaul, and the task of Textuality.” The Journal of Beckett Studies 19.1 (April 2010): 56-77.

“Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and the Intentionality of the Image.” Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, and Memory. Ed. David Bathrick, Brad Prager, and Michael Richardson. Rochester: Camden House, 2008. 138-61.

“Proust, Beckett, et la typologie de la modernité.” La cérémonie: entre le protocolaire et l’intime. Ed. Daniel Vaillancourt. London, Ontario: Mestengo Press, 2008. 159-72.

“Adorno, Beckett, and ‘the duty of reason’ after Auschwitz.” The Journal of Beckett Studies 16.1-2 (2006/2007): 259-77.

“The Task of the Listener: Beckett, Proust, and Perpetual Translation.” Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 12 (2002): 35-52.

“Beckett’s Proust: The Musical Cogito and the Problem of Allegory.” Travelling Concepts II: Meaning, Frame, Metaphor. Ed. Michael Burke and Joyce Goggin. Amsterdam: ASCA Press, 2002. 376-90.

“The Commitment to Complicity: The Cathexis of the Other in Post-Colonial Theory.” Borders and Margins: Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism. Ed. Fernando de Toro and Alfonso de Toro. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1995. 103-20.

BOOKS

Pessimism, Mass Culture, and the Media of Modernism (monograph – in preparation)

Late Modernism and the Novel of Indifference

(monograph – in preparation)

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (selected)

“The Face of Proust” (Modernist Studies Association Conference, Victoria, Canada, November 2010)

“Trying (again) to understand Adorno’s Endgame essay” (Marxist Literary Group, Institute on Culture and Society, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, June 2010)

“Beckett, Proust, and the Promise of Figurality” (Back to the Beckett Text, The University of Gdansk, Poland, May 2010)

“Indifferent Images: J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man” (Modernist Studies Association Conference, Montreal, November 2009)

“Migrations of Boredom (Beckett and Naipaul)” (Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 2008).

“J.M. Coetzee, Photography, and the Auratic Image” (Symposium on “Public and Private Memory,” Laurentian University, Sudbury, March 2007)

“The Index and the Archive: Claude Lanzmann’s Cinematic Punctum” (invited lecture sponsored by The Interdisciplinary Humanities MA in Interpretation and Values, Laurentian University, January 2007)

“Beckett, Adorno, and the Corruption of Culture” (Beckett at 100: New Perspectives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, February 2006)

“Marcel Proust et le destin du rituel” (La cérémonie: entre le protocolaire et l’intime, The University of Western Ontario, London, October 2005)

“Yeats, Beckett, and the Culture of Revival” (International Association for the Study of Irish Literature Conference, Charles University, Prague, July 2005)

“Samuel Beckett’s Aesthetics of Indifference” (Canadian Comparative Literature Association Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, May 2005)

“Lanzmann’s Shoah and the Intentionality of the Image” (Visualizing the Holocaust: Taboos and Potentialities, Cornell University, March 2005)

“The Melted Image: Cinematic Memory in The Emigrants and Austerlitz ” (W.G. Sebald: Texts/Contexts, University of Western Ontario, London, January 2005)

“Proust’s Task of Translation” (American Comparative Literature Association Conference, San Juan, April 2002)

“Beckett’s Proust: The Musical Cogito and the Problem of Allegory” (Travelling Concepts II: Meaning, Frame, Metaphor, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation, University of Amsterdam, March 2001)

“In the Ditch: Molloy’s Memory” (Travelling Concepts: Text, Subjectivity, Hybridity, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation, University of Amsterdam, January 2000)