THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
FACULTY OF ARTS
CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: TILOTTAMA RAJAN
POSITION: Professor; Canada Research Chair in English and Theory, University of Western Ontario
PREVIOUS POSITIONS AT UWO: Director, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, 1995-2001.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS: Assistant Professor, Huron College, 1977-80; Assistant Professor, Queen's Univ., 1980-83; Associate Professor, Queen's Univ., 1983-5; Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984-90; H.I.Romnes Chair, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987-90.
VISITING APPOINTMENTS: Univ. of California-San Diego (Spring, 1984); International Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Univ. of British Columbia (Summer, 1988); Visiting Canterbury Professor, Univ. of CAnterbury, New Zealand (Summer, 1996); Northrop Frye Professor of Theory, Univ. of Toronto (1998-9).
EDUCATION: B.A. Honours Trinity College, Univ. of Toronto, 1968-72; M.A. in English, Univ. of Toronto, 1973; Ph.D. in English, Univ. of Toronto, 1977.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS: A.S.P. Woodhouse Prize for best PhD thesis in Univ. of Toronto English Dept. (1978); SSHRCC Fellowship, 1984-85; A.C.L.S. Grant-in-Aid, 1986-87; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1987-88; H.I. Romnes Fellowship, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1987-90; Keats-Shelley Association Prize for best article (1989); SSHRCC Individual Research Grant, 1991-94; SSHRCC Individual Research Grant, 1998-2002; SSHRCC Conference Grants for "Romanticism and the Ideologies of Genre" (1993) and "The Histories of Theory" (1998); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1994-
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Romantic literature and its connections to contemporary and nineteenth-century theory; Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, William Godwin, the 1790s novel; romantic narrative (poetry, prose and philosophy); romanticism and psychoanalysis.
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Aesthetics and Theory: the emergence of "theory" in the nineteenth century; grand narratives, encyclopedias, fragments and systems; intertextual relationships between postKantian idealism and contemporary theory; Leibniz, Hegel, Kant, Schelling, Schlegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard.
Contemporary theory and continental philosophy: hermeneutics; the relationship between phenomenology and deconstruction; the persistence of romanticism in contemporary theory; encyclopedic thought from postKantian Idealism to deconstruction; Sartre, Blanchot, Bataille, early Foucault, early Derrida, de Man, Baudrillard, Kristeva, psychoanalytic Marxism (e.g. Jameson, Zizek).
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS: Advisory Board of PMLA, 1990-4; Editorial Board of PMLA, 1997-9; Editorial Boards of Clio: A Journal of Literature, Philosophy, History; European Romantic Review; The Wordsworth Circle; Studies in the Novel; Nineteenth-Century Feminisms; Chadwyck and Healey Database for Literary Theory.
Founder and President, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 1991-; Executive member, MLA Division for Non-Fictional Prose, 1985-88; Executive member, MLA Division for the English Romantic Period, 1992-7; Executive Member, MLA Division for Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, 2001-6; Member, Steering Committee, Consortium for the Humanities, 1996-9.
MANUSCRIPTS EVALUATED (Books):
Harvard University Press, University of California Press, University of Wisconsin Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Canadian Federation for the Humanities, Cornell University Press, Princeton University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Modern Language Association, Cambridge University Press, State University of New York Press, Blackwell Publishers, Duke University Press, Broadview Press, Bucknell University Press, Macmillan.
(articles): PMLA (284); Studies in Romanticism (3); English Studies in Canada (5); Mosaic; Signature; Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics; Eighteenth-Century Fiction; Eighteenth-Century Life; Clio; Studies in the Novel (3); Nineteenth-Century Feminisms; Gothic Studies; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; European Romantic Review; Romanticism on the Net.
DEPARTMENTAL REVIEWS : Member, Committee of Overseers, Dept. of English and American Literature, Harvard University, 1991-97; External Assessor, Contemporary Studies Programme, King's University, Halifax, 1999; External assessor, relationship between King's University and Dalhousie University, 1999.
PROMOTION AND TENURE REVIEWS:
(Promotion to Full Professor): Boston College, University of California-Riverside, University of Colorado-Boulder, Dalhousie University, University of Michigan, Rutgers University, Stanford University, University of Texas at Austin
(Promotion to Associate and/or Tenure Reviews): Boston University, University of Calgary, Columbia University, Duke University, University of Melbourne, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Oklahoma State University, University of Pennsylvania, Purdue University, Queen's University, Rutgers University, Washington University- St. Louis, Yale University
Scholarship and Award Panels: OGS (review panels for English and Interdisciplinary Studies); John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; Assesor for individual SSHRCC research grants.
THESES SUPERVISED
Theses Completed
(at Queen's University) [10]
David Gay, on Blake, 1981 (M.A., second reader)
Donna Campbell, on Keats, 1982 (M.A., second reader)
Peter Sims, on Wordsworth, 1983 (M.A., supervisor)
Sandra Binns, on Doris Lessing, 1983 (M.A., supervisor)
Catherine Taylor, on Coleridge's notebooks, 1983 (M.A., second reader)
Julia Tilden, Allegory and myth in Romantic theory and practice, 1984 (M.A., supervisor)
Julia Emberley, feminist criticism, 1984 (M.A., second reader)
Peter Thoms, on Wordsworth, 1984 (M.A., supervisor)
Onno Oerlemans, Faulkner and metafiction, 1984 (M.A., second reader)
Anne Todkill, Marxist criticism, 1985 (M.A., supervisor)
(at University of Wisconsin) [3]
Hong-Sang Yeo, on Browning's The Ring and the Book, 1990 (Ph.D., second reader)
Eric Meyer, "Narratives of Development: Romanticism, Modernity, and Imperial History -- A Study of the Romantic Epic in Goethe, Blake, Byron and Wordsworth," 1991 (Ph.D., supervisor)
Steven Gores, "Verbal and Visual Spaces in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Cultural Artifacts," 1991 (Ph.D., second reader)
(at University of Western Ontario, Department of English) [12]
Monika Lee, "The Presence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the Writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Comparison of Theories of Language," 1992 (Ph.D., Chief Supervisor).
Peter Georgelos, "The Daughters of Beulah: a critique of gender in Blake's poetry," 1992 (Ph.D., Chief Supervisor).
Kim Murphy, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Reading as a Dialogue Between Ideological Horizons." 1993 (M.A., Second Reader).
Miglena Nikolchina, "The Polylogic Text: Reading Woolf via Kristeva." 1993 (Ph.D., Second Reader).
Michael Sider, "The Dialogic Keats." 1993 (Ph.D., Chief Supervisor).
Julia Wright, "The Politics of Textuality: `Unceasing Practise' in Blake's Works." 1994 (Ph.D., Chief Supervisor).
Michael O'Driscoll, "The Truth in Pointing: Whitman, Pound, Cage, and Text as Index." 1996 (Ph.D., Second Reader).
Peter Jaeger, "ABC of Reading TRG: Steve MacCaffrey, bp nichol, and Critical Care." 1997 (Ph.D., Second Reader).
Irena Nikolova, "Envisioning the Transcendental: The Problematics of Darstellung in Shelley, Keats, Novalis, and Hölderlin." 1997 (Ph.D., Chief Supervisor).
Ranita Chatterjee, "Dialogues of Desire: Intertextual Narration in the Works of Mary Shelley and William Godwin." 1998 (Ph.D., Chief Supervisor).
Joel Faflak, "Subjects Presumed to Know: The Scene of Romantic Psychoanalysis." 1998. (Ph.D., Chief Supervisor).
Mark Hewitt, "Romancing Aesthetics: Literary Theory in Hegel's Philosophy and the Jena Fragments." 2001 (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
(at University of Western Ontario, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism)
[16]
William McConnell, "Figuring Paul de Man: Literary History and the Indeterminacy of the Reading/Writing Subjects." 1993 (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
Mark Rozahegy, "Levinas and the Architecture of Alterity." 1995 (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
James Brouwer, "Over and Over: From Derrida to Hegel and Beyond," 1995 (M.A., Second Reader)
Robert Diab, "The Crisis of Modernity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Natural Science," 1995 (M.A., Second Reader)
Nandita Biswas, "The Anxiety of Conscience: On the Non-concept of Community," 1996 (M.A., Second Reader)
John Sawicki, "Towards an Aestheticized Politics (and/or a Politicized Aesthetics) of Radical Apathy," 1997 (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
Scott Bakker, "Theochrony and Anatopy: Bakhtin, Derrida and Time," 1997 (M.A., Second Reader)
Laura Penny, "Spent," 1998 (M.A., Second Reader).
Neil Gohill, "Spirit in Schelling's Freedom Essay," 1998 (M.A., Chief Supervisor).
Dorian Stuber, "Waving/Drowning: Trauma, Representation, Corporeality," 1999 (M.A., Second Reader)
Mark Asberg, "Towards a Kantian Ethics of (In)decisive Obligation," 1999 (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
Brett Buchanan, "Who is Nietzsche's Philosophy: Psychological Remainders of Post-Kantian Anthropology," 1999 (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
Heather Snell, "Spacing the Event: The Theoretical Performance of Jean Baudrillard," 2000 (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
Katherine Kiloh, "A girl, being, a sculpture," 2000 (M.A., Second Reader)
Randy Innes, "Architecture at Sea: Desire, Rhythm, and the Poetic Image," 2000 (M.A., Second Reader)
Surti Singh, "Negativity in Hegel," (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
Theses in Progress
(Department of English) [5]
Justin Baird, "History's Recesses: The Counter-historical Fictions of Sophia Lee, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley," (Ph.D., Chief Supervisor)
Rebecca Gagan, "Learned Bodies: Romantic Epistemology and the Idea of the Existential University" (Ph.D., Chief Supervisor)
Margaret Toye, "Revolutions in Space and Time: Writing Feminism, Ethics and Narrative in a Postfeminist Age, With Angela Carter, Michel Foucault, and Luce Irigaray," (Ph.D., co-Supervisor)
Rodica Ieta, "The Faces of Hypertext: James Joyce's Discontinuous Storytelling," (Ph.D., Second Reader)
(Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism) [4]
John Vanderheide, "The Paralogical Search: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Allegory," (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
Elana Commisso, "Simulate This! Figurations of Simulacra: The Truth(s) That Belie Representation," (M.A., Chief Supervisor)
Heidi Arsenault, "Adorno's Beethoven," (M.A., Second Reader)
Jonathan Murphy, "The Uncanny Science of Psychoanalysis" (M.A, Chief Supervisor)
PhD Theses Examined Externally
Joanne Buckley, "Keats in the Service of the Time Being," Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, April 1983.
John Whatley, "Shelley's Human Spirits of Language," Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, April 1990.
Bruce Wyse, "Repetition, Genre and Excess in Romantic Closet Tragedy: The Borderers, Remorse, and Manfred," University of Toronto, March 1992.
Paul Endo, "Shelley, Stevens, and the Non-Idealist Sublime," University of Toronto, April 1993.
Warren Cariou, "Mixed Media: Intention and Contrariety in Blake's Art," University of Toronto, February, 1998.
Adam Carter, "Irony and Ideology: A Critical Genealogy," McMaster University, March 1998.
BOOKS PUBLISHED (Title, Publisher, Place and Date of Publication,
Number of Pages):
Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980; paperback edition, 1986), 281 pp.
The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990, cloth and paper), xii + 361 pp.
BOOKS EDITED (Title, Publisher, Place and Date of Publication, Number of Pages):
(with David L. Clark) Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), vii + 386 pp.
(with Julia Wright), Romanticism, History and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature 1789-1837 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), xiv + 291 pp.
Mary Shelley, Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1998), 492 pp. [includes Introduction and Notes, 76 pp.].
BOOKS FORTHCOMING
Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Baudrillard, Foucault (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2002).
(coed. with Michael O'Driscoll), After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2002)
(coed. with Arkady Plotnitsky), Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming, 2003)
SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS EDITED:
"Nietzsche and Romanticism," Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1990).
(with Angela Esterhammer), "Romanticism and the Ideologies of Genre," The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Winter, 1994).
BOOKS IN PROGRESS
Romantic Narrative
SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS COMMISSIONED:
(coed. with Linda Woodbridge), special issue of PMLA on "Imagining History Before 1900" (2003).
ARTICLES PUBLISHED (Title, Journal, Volume, Date, Page Numbers): [50]
"`Nothing Sooner Broke': Donne's Songs and Sonets as Self-Consuming Artifact," English Literary History, 49 (1982), 805-828.
"Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Prometheus Unbound," Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Fall, 1984), 317-338.
"Romanticism and the Death of Lyric Consciousness," Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism, ed. Patricia Parker and Chaviva Hosek (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 194-207.
"Displacing Post-Structuralism: Criticism of the Romantics after Paul de Man," Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 1985), 451-474.
"Deconstructing Wordsworth," in Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry, ed. Spencer Hall and Jonathan Ramsey (New York: Modern Language Association, 1986), pp. 157-162.
"The Supplement of Reading," in New Literary History, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Spring 1986), 573-594.
"The Future of Deconstruction in Romantic Studies," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 11 (1987), pp. 131-147.
"Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel: Godwin and Wollstonecraft," Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer, 1988), 221-152.
"Is There a Romantic Ideology? Some Thoughts on Schleiermacher's Hermeneutic and Textual Criticism," Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, Vol. 4 (1988), pp. 59-77.
"Introduction" to issue of Studies in Romanticism on "Nietzsche and Romanticism," Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring 1990), 3-8.
"The Erasure of Narrative in Post-Structuralist Representations of Wordsworth," Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory, ed. Kenneth Johnston et al. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 350-370.
"The Eye/I of the Other: Self and Audience in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads," Symposium on Romanticism, ed. Deirdre Coleman and Peter Otto (Adelaide: Centre for British Studies, 1990), pp. 49-89.
"Allegories of Intertextuality: The Controversy Over Paul de Man," Modern Philology, Vol.89, No.2 (1991), 231-46.
"The Web of Human Things: Narrative and Identity in Alastor," The New Shelley: Later Twentieth Century Views, ed. G. Kim Blank (New York: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 85-107, 251-252.
"Intertextuality and the Subject of Reading/Writing," Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History, ed. Jay Clayton and Eric Rothstein (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), pp. 61-74.
"Teaching Keats from the Standpoint of a Deconstructive Phenomenology," Approaches to Teaching Keats' Poetry, ed. Walter H. Evert and Jack W. Rhodes (New York: Modern Language Association, 1991), pp. 70-76.
"En-Gendering the System: Blake's Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion," The Mind in Creation: Essays in Honour of Ross Woodman , ed. J. Douglas Kneale (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992), pp. 74- 90, 155-57.
"Representation and Self-representation: The Canonical Hermeneutics of Hegel and Kierkegaard," in Aesthetic Illusion, Parabasis 5 (1993), pp. 69-81.
"Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Textual Abject," The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1993), 61-69.
"Trans-Positions of Difference: Kristeva and Post-Structuralism," in Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing, ed. Kelly Oliver (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 215-37.
"The Year's Work in the Nineteenth Century," Studies in English Literature, Vol. 33, No.4 (1993), 875-937.
"The Broken Mirror: The Identity of the Text in Shelley's The Triumph of Life," Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism, ed. Karl Kroeber and Gene W. Ruoff (Rutgers, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993), pp.352-65. [Reprint from The Supplement of Reading]
"Idealism and Scepticism in Shelley's Poetry," Shelley, ed. Michael O'Neill (London and New York: Longman, 1993), pp.241-63. [Reprint from Dark Interpreter]
"Hermeneutics: Nineteenth Century," The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), pp.375-78.
"Arthur Schopenhauer," The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), pp.657-58.
"Autonarration and Genotext in Mary Hays'Memoirs of Emma Courtney," Studies in Romanticism, Vol.32, No. 2 (1993), 149-76.
"Mary Shelley's Mathilda: Melancholy and the Political Economy of Romanticism," Studies in the Novel, Vol.26, No. 2 (Summer 1994), 43-68.
"The Other Reading: Transactional Epic in Milton, Blake, and Wordsworth," Milton, The Metaphysicals and Romanticism, ed. Lisa Low and Anthony John Harding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp.20-46.
"`The Web of Human Things': Narrative and Identity in Alastor," New Romanticisms: Theory and Critical Practice, ed. David L. Clark and Donald C. Goellnicht (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994), pp.27-51.
"Language, Music and the Body: Nietzsche and Deconstruction," Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, ed. Tilottama Rajan and David Clark (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), pp.147-69.
(with David L. Clark), "Speculations: Idealism and its Rem(a)inders," Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, ed. Tilottama Rajan and David Clark (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), pp.1-35.
"Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Prometheus Unbound," Romanticism: A Critical Reader, ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995), pp.192-214. [Reprint from The Supplement of Reading]
"Radical Phenomenology: Hegel and the Dis(place)ment of Art," Constructive Criticism: The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory, ed. Martin Kreiswirth and Tom Carmichael (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), pp.23-43.
"Phenomenology and Romantic Theory: Hegel and the Subversion of Aesthetics," Questioning Romanticism, ed. John Beer (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 155-78, 298-300.
"Promethean Narrative: Overdetermined Form in Shelley's Gothic Fiction," Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World, ed. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 240-52, 308-9.
"Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Textual Abject," in Rhetorical and Cultural Dissolution in Romanticism, ed. Thomas Pfau and Rhonda Ray Kercsmar. Special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, 95:3 (Summer, 1996), 797-820.
"(Dis)figuring the System: Vision, History, and Trauma in Blake's Lambeth Books," in Essick, Viscomi et. al. William Blake: Images and Texts (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1997), 107-36.
(with Julia Wright), "Introduction," Romanticism, History and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming British literature 1789-1837, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 1-18.
"Autonarration and Genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney," Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 213-39.
"Keats, Poetry, and `The Absence of the Work'," Modern Philology, 95:3 (1998), 334-51.
"From Restricted to General Economy: Romantic Studies and a Kantianism Without Reserve," Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire, 29 (Spring/Summer, 1998), 7-14.
"Introduction," to Mary Shelley, Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Peterbororugh: Broadview Press, 1998), 7-42.
"Uncertain Futures: History and Genealogy in William Godwin's The Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupils of Milton," Milton Quarterly, 32:3 (October 1998), 75-86.
"The Phenomenological Allegory: From Death and the Labyrinth to The Order of Things," Poetics Today, 19:3 (Fall, 1998), 439-66.
"Theories of Genre in Romanticism," The Cambridge History of Romantic Criticism, ed. Ernst Behler and Marshall Brown (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 226-49.
"System and Singularity From Herder to Hegel," European Romantic Review, 11:2 (Spring, 2000), 137-49.
"Between Romance and History: Possibility and Contingency in Godwin, Leibniz, and Mary Shelley's Valperga," in Mary Shelley in her Times, ed. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000), 88-102, 247-50.
"The Mask of Death: Foucault, Derrida, the human sciences and literature," special issue on "Rhizomatics, Genealogies, Deconstruction," ed. Constantin Boundas, Angelaki 5:2 (2000), 211-21.
"Framing the Corpus: Godwin's `Editing' of Wollstonecraft in 1798," Studies in Romanticism 39 (Winter 2000), 511-31.
"The University in Crisis: Cultural Studies, Civil Society, and the Place of Theory," Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire, 18:35 (2001), 8-25.
REVIEW ARTICLES: [5]
"In Search of System," University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 1 (1981), 93-102.
"Romantic Fragments," University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 3 (1983), 306-310.
V.A. De Luca, Thomas DeQuincey: The Prose of Vision, English Studies in Canada, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1983), 105-112.
Jean-Pierre Mileur, Vision and Revision: Coleridge's Art of Immanence, Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 1984), 262-268.
"Some Trends in Romantic Studies," review article on Cynthia Chase, Decomposing Figures; Marjorie Levinson, Wordsworth's Great Period Poems; Jon P. Klancher, The Making of English Reading Audiences 1780-1830; Charles Rzepka, The Self as Mind. Southern Review 21 (1988), pp. 85-98.
NOTES: [2]
"Quarles' Emblems and Coleridge's 'Time Real and Imaginary'," Notes and Queries, Vol. 27, No. 3 (June 1980), 205-206.
"The Romantic Backgrounds of Yeats' Use of Dante in 'Ego Dominus Tuus'," Yeats-Eliot Review, Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2 (June 1982), 120-122.
ARTICLES ACCEPTED (Title, Journal, Expected Date of Publication): [10]
"The Double Detour: Sartre, Heidegger, and the Genealogy of Deconstruction," in After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory, ed. Rajan and O'Driscoll (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2002)
(with Michael O'Driscoll), "Introduction," After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory, ed. Rajan and O'Driscoll (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2002).
"Hegel's Indigestion: Disease and Dialectic in the Philosophy of Nature," Eating Romanticism: Cultures of Taste, Theories of Appetite, ed. Timothy Morton (London: Palgrave, forthcoming 2003).
"F.W.J. Schelling," The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 2nd ed., ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2003).
"Genre," The Cambridge History of Romanticism, ed. James Chandler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2003)
"The Unavowable Community of Idealism: Coleridge and the Life Sciences," forthcoming in European Romantic Review, 2003.
"Still (to be) Born: Reproduction, Community and Natural History in the 1790s Novel," forthcoming in The New Centennial Review, 2003.
"Towards a Cultural idealism: negativity and Freedom in Hegel and Kant," in Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2003)
"Introduction" (sole author), Idealism Without Absolutes, ed. Rajan and Plotnitsky.
"In the Wake of Cultural Studies: Globalization, Theory and the University," forthcoming in Diacritics.
ARTICLES COMPLETED:
BOOK REVIEWS (Author and title of Book Reviewed, Journal, Volume,
Date and Page Numbers): [14]
Review of Geoffrey Hartman, Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy, South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 4 (Autumn 1982), 465-467.
Review of Jonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs, Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 90, No. 1 (1983), 229-230.
Review of Christopher Norris, Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Winter 1983), 1193-1195.
Review of David Simpson, Wordsworth's Figurings of the Real, Wordsworth Circle, Vol. XIV, No. 43 (Summer 1983), 122-124.
Review of Douglas Atkins, Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading, Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Spring 1987), 222-225.
Review of Geoffrey Galt Harpham, The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism, Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 96, No. 2 (Summer 1989), 514-517.
Review of Norris and Machin (eds.) Post-Structuralist Readings of English Poetry, Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Autumn 1988), 109-202.
Review of Andrew Cooper, Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry, Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1 (1989), 72-76.
Review of Jerrold Hogle, Shelley's Process: Radical Transference and the Development of His Works, Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 39 (1990), pp. 182-185.
Review of William Galperin, Revision and Authority in Wordsworth: The Interpretation of a Career, Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 22, No.4 (Autumn 1991), 188-192.
Review of John Hodgson, Coleridge, Shelley and Transcendental Inquiry: Rhetoric, Argument, Metapsychology, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol.91, No.2 (1992), 258-61.
Review of Drew Leder, The Absent Body, Semiotic Inquiry, Vol. 12, Nos.1-2 (1992), 261-67.
Review of Mary Jacobus, Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 91, No. 4 (1992), 571-75.
Review of Andrew Bennett, Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing, European Romantic Review, Vol. 6, No.1 (Summer, 1995), 137-41.
Review of Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K. Mellor and Esther Schor (eds.), The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein, In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March, 1995), 51-6.
Review of David Simpson, The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature: A Report on Half-Knowledge, Modern Philology. Vol. 96, No.1 (August 1998), 48-52.
Review of Orrin Wang, Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 97 (July, 1998), 452-4.
Review of Mary Jacobus, Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading, The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 32, No. 4 (2001), 203-206.
PAPERS READ (Title, Occasion, Date): [144]
"Beckett's Early Work: Anti-Romantic or Post-Romantic?" Romantic Ireland, Canadian Association of Irish Studies, University of Western Ontario, March 1980.
"Donne's Songs and Sonets: A Post-Structuralist Reading," University of Western Ontario, November 1981; also read at University of Toronto, February 1982.
"Deconstructive and Reader-Response Theory as Applied to Donne's Songs and Sonets," session on "Deconstructing Renaissance Texts," Modern Language Association, New York, December 1981.
"The Problem of Textual Disunity in Prometheus Unbound," session on "The Unity of Text," Association of Canadian University Teachers of English, University of Ottawa, June 1982.
"The Disappearance of Narrative Actualisation: Reading Romantic Literature," Toronto Semiotic Circle, October 1982.
"Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Strategies of Reading in Prometheus Unbound," Contemporary Literary Theory: Critical Practice and Philosophical Assumptions, Queen's University, October 1982; also read at California Institute of Technology, May 1984.
"Romanticism and the Death of Lyric Consciousness," Lyric Poetry and the New Criticism, University of Toronto, October 1982; also read at Brock University, March 1983.
"Post-Structuralism," University of Waterloo, November 1982.
"Reading Romantic Literature: Problems in Semiotics and Hermeneutics," Philosophy Department Colloquium, Queen's University, February 1983.
"The Supplement of Reading," Romanticism and Language, Graduate Centre, City University of New York, February 1983; also read at University of Saskatchewan, October 1984.
"The Supplement of Reading," in session on "Rhetoric and Romanticism," Modern Language Association, New York, December 1983; and at Association of Canadian University Teachers of English, Universite de Montreal, June 1985. [Shorter version of previous paper.]
"Unsaying his High Language: The Phenomenology of Disarticulation in Shelley," conference on Indeterminacy, University of Western Ontario, November 1984.
"Paul de Man's Criticism of the Romantics," colloquium on Deconstruction, University of Waterloo, October 1983.
"Paul de Man in Retrospect: The Future of Romantic Criticism." Wayne State University, December 1983; University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 1984; University of California-Santa Barbara, April 1984; University of California-San Diego, May 1984; University of California, Los Angeles, June 1984.
"The Canonical Hermeneutics of Hegel and Kierkegaard," Third International Colloquium on Romanticism, International Comparative Literature Association, University of Alberta, October 1984.
"Displacing Post-Structuralism: Criticism of the Romantics after Paul de Man," University of Western Ontario, February 1985.
"World Within World: Deconstructive Phenomenology and Shelley's Defence of Poetry, conference on English Romanticism: Recent Trends in Criticism, Northwestern University, October 1986; also read at Princeton University, 1987.
"Is There a Romantic Ideology? Schleiermacher and the Displacement of Textual Criticism," MLA, New York, December 1986.
"Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and the Hermeneutics of the Romantic Political Novel," MLA, New York, December 1986.
"Deconstruction and Value: Shelley's Defence of Poetry," American Comparative Literature Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1987.
"Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel: Godwin and Wollstonecraft," plenary paper for meeting of Association of Canadian University Teachers of English, McMaster University, May 1987; also read at Bryn Mawr College, February 1988; University of Chicago, April 1989.
"Beyond Heterocosmic Aesthetics: Paradise Lost and the Reader," Aesthetic Illusion II, York University, August 1987.
"The Figure of Wordsworth in Deconstruction," Romantic Revolutions, Indiana University, March 1988.
"Audience and Representation in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads," International Colloquium on The Semiotics of Representation, University of British Columbia, August, 1988.
"The Eye/I of the Other: Self and Audience in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads," Harvard University, Oct. 1988; also read at Univ. of Alberta, November 1988; University of Adelaide, July 1989.
"Blake's Perspectivism: En-gendering the System in Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion," Romanticism in Canada, University of Western Ontario, October 1988.
"Lyric and Institution in Wordsworth," MLA, New Orleans, December, 1988.
"Dialogism and Difference in Coleridge's Conversation Poems," American Comparative Literature Association, Brandeis University, March 1989.
"En-Gendering the System: Blake's The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion," keynote address at conference on the Romantic Imagination, Melbourne University, July 1989; also read at University of Western Australia, July 1989; Northern Illinois University, October 1989; Delhi University, November 1989; Princeton University, January 1990; Simon Fraser University, April 1990.
"Keats' Late Romances," Sydney University, July 1989.
"Romanticism, Hermeneutics, Culture," Australian National University, July 1989.
"Allegories of Reading: Kierkegaard and the Hermeneutics of Deconstruction," Modern Language Association, Washington, December 1989.
"The Web of Human Things: Lyric and Narrative in Shelley's Alastor," Modern Language Association, Washington, December 1989.
"Disagreement and Difference; Deconstruction and the Economy of Controversies," conference on The Rhetoric of Controversies, University of Waterloo, May 1990.
"The Web of Human Things: Narrative and Identity in Shelley's Alastor," McMaster University, October 1990 (also read at University of Western Ontario, December 1990).
"The Figure of the Body in Deconstruction," Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1990.
"Language Music and the Body: Kristeva's Rewriting of Nietzsche," International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Université de Montreal, May 1991.
"The Romantic Self: Politics, Narrative and Autobiography," Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Nice, France, June 1991.
"Figures of Difference: Nietszche and Kristeva," Dept. of Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo, Nov. 1991 (also read at University of Wales-Cardiff, July 1992).
"Language, Music, and the Body: Nietzsche and Deconstruction," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, Dec. 1991 (longer version read at
Delhi University, South and North campuses, March 1994)
"Poststructuralist or Postromantic: Varieties of Deconstruction in the Work of Samuel Beckett," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, Dec. 1991
"Autonarration and Genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney," University of Utah, April 1992.
"Narrative and Difference: Plot, Subjectivity and Process in Romantic Narrative," University of Utah, April 1992.
"Promethean Narrative: Overdetermined Form in Shelley's Gothic Novels," Shelley Bicentenary Conference, New York, May 1992.
"Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Textual Abject," Plenary Paper, Coleridge Summer Conference, July 1992 (also read in the Colloquium Series, University of Western Ontario, 1992)
"Phenomenology and Romantic Criticism," International Association of University Professors of English, Trent University, August 1992.
"Phenomenology and Romantic Criticism: Hegel and the Sub-Version of Aesthetics," The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory, University of Western Ontario, April 1993 (also presented at ACCUTE, Carleton University, May 1993; Sahitya Academy, Delhi, March 1994; University of
California-Los Angeles, November 1994).
"Autonarration and Genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney," plenary paper, Romanticism and the Ideologies of Genre, University of Western Ontario, Aug. 1993. (also presented as plenary address at Altered States, Lexis Conference, McGill University, Oct. 1993).
"Mary Shelley's Mathilda: The Textual Abject and the Political Economy of Romanticism," special session on "Genre at the Margins of Romanticism," Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1993.
"Ross Woodman," annual dinner of the Keats-Shelley Association, Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1993.
"Mary Shelley's Mathilda: Melancholy and the Political Economy of Romanticism," Trent University, January 1994 (also presented at University of Windsor, January 1994; Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, March 1994).
"The Thought of the Outside: Phenomenology and Structuralism in Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic," University of Waterloo, April 1994; Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, January 1995; McMaster University, March 1995; University of Washington, April 1997; CUNY Graduate Centre, October 1998; University of Toronto, March 1999.
"Foucault, Literature and Phenomenology," Thinking Between Philosophy and Literature, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Alberta, May 5-8, 1994; Aesthetics and Ideologies, Michigan State University, October 6-8, 1994; Michel Foucault and Literature, University of Toronto, October 12-16, 1994.
"Dis-Figuring the System: Vision, History and Trauma in Blake's Lambeth Books," William Blake's Illuminated Books: Images and Texts, Huntington Library, October 1994; McMaster University, March 1995; Comparables, University of Western Ontario, September 1995; University of California-Berkeley, April 1997.
"Radical Phenomenology: Hegel and the Dis(place)ment of Art," University of California-Los Angeles, October 1994.
"Radical Phenomenology: Hegel, Aesthetics, and Difference," Modern Language Association, San Diego, December 27th-30th 1994.
"The Phenomenological Allegory: From Death and the Labyrinth to The Order of Things," McMaster University, March 1995.
"Displacing the System: Vision, History and Trauma in Blake's Lambeth Books," Placing and Displacing Romanticism, British Association of Romantic Studies, Bangor, Wales, July 1995.
"Hegel, Kant, and the Political Unconscious," The Cultural Legacies of Romanticism, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Maryland, July 1995.
"Keats, Literature, and `the absence of the work'," John Keats Bicentennial Conference, Harvard University, September 1995 (longer version read at University of Ottawa, November 1995; University of Wisconsin, October 1996).
"The Double Detour: Sartre, Heidegger, and the Genealogy of Deconstruction," Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1995; "Current Research in Deconstruction," University of Toronto, April 1997; The Histories of Theory, University of Western Ontario, April 1998).
"Hegel, Kant, and the Grounds of Cultural Criticism," Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Brock University, May 1996.
"The PostKantian University and the Situation of Theory," Networking the Humanities, Annual Conference of the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes, University of Illinois-Chicago, October 1996.
"From Restricted to General Economy: A Kantianism Without Reserve," plenary panel paper for Romantic Crossings, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston, November 1996.
"From History to Archeology: Keats' Hyperion Poems," Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 1996.
"History and Romance in Mary Shelley's Valperga," Mary Shelley in Her Times, Keats-Shelley Association of America, May 1997 (also presented at "Romantic Generations," biennial meeting of the British Association of Romantic Studies, Leeds University, July 1997).
"Neither Form nor Outline: Negativity and Potentiality in Hegel's Aesthetics," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, McMaster University, October 1997.
"Hegel's Orientalism: Negativity and Potentiality in The Aesthetics," Centre for Romantic Studies, Jadavpur University, December 1997.
"Between History and Romance: Possibility and Contingency in Godwin, Leibniz and Mary Shelley's Valperga," George Whalley Memorial Lecture, Queen's University, February 1998; also presented at Centre for Romantic Studies, University of Jadavpur, December 1997; University of Delhi, South Campus, December 1998.
"Uncertain Futures: Godwin's Genealogy of Milton in The Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton," annual meeting of the Milton Society of America, Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1997; special session on Romantic Historiographies, ACCUTE, University of Ottawa, May 1998; MLA, San Francisco, December 1998.
"1798 and its Aftermath: Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Revolutionary Historiography," joint meeting of NASSR and BARS, London, England, July 1998.
"Negativity and Potentiality in Kant's Analytic of the Sublime and Hegel's Aesthetics," University of Toronto, January 1999.
"Revolution and Canonisation: Godwin's `Editing' of Wollstonecraft," ACCUTE, University of Sherbrooke/Bishop's University, May 1999.
"The Mask of Death: Foucault, The Human Sciences, and Literature," Genealogies, Deconstruction, Rhizomatics, Trent University, May 1999.
"System and Singularity From Herder to Hegel," NASSR, Dalhousie University, August 1999.
"Hegel's Critique of Judgment: Negativity and Freedom in the Aesthetics," American Comparative Literature Association, Yale University, February 2000.
"The Mask of Death: Foucault, Derrida, the Human Sciences and Literature," Université de Montreal, April 2000 (longer version of above)
"The University in Crisis: Cultural Studies, Civil Society, and the Place of Theory," Global Humanities 2000, Dartmouth College, 20-22 October, 2000.
"The Illness of History: Disease and Dialectic in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature," NASSR, University of Arizona, Sept. 14-17, 2000 (also presented at the MLA, Washington DC, December 27-30, 2000).
"The Unavowable Community of Idealism: Coleridge and the Life Sciences," Plenary paper, Coleridge, Friendship and Modernity, University of Warwick, February 13-14, 2001 (also presented at conference on "Community and (Im)Possibility," University of Western Ontario, March 23rd-24th 2001).
"Framing the Corpus: Godwin's Re-membering of Wollstonecraft in the Memoirs and Posthumous Works," St. Mary's College, University of London, February 2001.
"Freedom, Illness and Negativity in Hegel's Aesthetics," University of Sussex, February 2001.
"Spirit's Body: Hegel's Discussion of Medicine in the Philosophy of Nature," London Medical Historical Association, March 20th, 2001.
"Pathologies of Spirit: Dialectic and Disease in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature," ACCUTE, Université de Laval, May 2001.
"Organ-ising Knowledge: Asystasy in Schelling and Hegel," Romantic Subjects, 9th annual NASSR conference, University of Washington, August 16-19, 2001.
"On Abjection: Kristeva With Hegel, Sartre, Levinas and Bataille," Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, October 2001.
"The Dead Runner: Sartre After Sartre," Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, November 2001.
"The Dead Runner: Sartre and the Genesis of Deconstruction," MLA, New Orleans, December 2001.
"The Prose of the World: Romanticism, the `Nineteenth Century," and the Reorganisation of Knowledge," Keynote address, Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, April 2002.
"Still (to be) Born: Natural History and the Disfiguration of Reproduction in the 1790s Novel," Plenary paper, Evolving Domains of Knowledge and Representation, 10th Annual 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2002.
"Dis-Figured Reproduction: Melancholy and Abjection in the 1790s Novel," ACCUTE, University of Toronto, May 2002.
CONFERENCES AND SESSIONS ORGANISED:
Conferences Organised
"Contemporary Literary Theory: Philosophical Assumptions and Critical Practice," Queen's University, October 1-3, 1982.
"Romanticism and the Ideologies of Genre," inaugural NASSR Conference, University of Western Ontario, August 26th- 29th, 1993.
"The Histories of Theory," University of Western Ontario, April 16-19, 1998.
"Romanticism and History," Tenth Annual NASSR Conference, University of Western Ontario, August 22nd-25th, 2002.
Sessions Organised at Conferences
"Romanticism and Reading," Modern Language Association, New York, December 1986.
"Text and Intertext," 3 sessions, Modern Language Association, New York, December 1986.
"Romanticism as a Scene of Instruction in Canadian Culture," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, The Aesthetic Education of Romanticism, Duke University, November 1994.
"The Legacies of German Romantic Theory I: History, Gender, and the Unconscious," NASSR, The Cultural Legacies of Romanticism, University of Maryland, July 1995.
"The Legacies of German Romantic Theory II: Signification, Alterity, and Process," NASSR, The Cultural Legacies of Romanticism, University of Maryland, July 1995.
"Literary Deformities: The (Un)aesthetic," Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 1996.
"Romantic Psychologies," Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 1996.
"Romantic Historiographies," Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, University of Ottawa, May 1998.
"Thinking Between English and European Romanticism," two sessions, joint between NASSR, ACCUTE and CCLA, University of Sherbrooke/Bishop's University, May 1999.
"Systematic Thought and The New," NASSR, Romanticism and the New, Dalhousie University, August 1999.
"The Body of Philosophy I: New Maladies of the Soul" NASSR, Romanticism and the Body, University of Arizona, September 2000.
"The Body of Philosophy II: Psycho-Physiologies of Idealism," NASSR, Romanticism and the Body, University of Arizona, September 2000.
"Embodying PostKantian Idealism: Public Faces/ Private Illnesses," MLA, Washington, December 2000.
"Imagining History," MLA, New Orleans, December 2001 (coorganised with Linda Woodbridge).