Teaching
Graduate Courses at University of Western Ontario
- Romanticism and Reading
- Critical Methods
- Deconstruction Before and After Post-Structuralism, Winter 1990
- Modes of Theoretical Discourse
- Romantic Narrative
- Deconstruction Before and After Post-Structuralism
- The Persistence of Phenomenology in Contemporary Theory
- Revisiting Idealism
- Romanticism, Narrative, Historiography
- Revolution and Deconstruction: Literature and Thought 1790-1825
- Romantic Historiographies
Theses Supervised at University Of Western Ontario
Ph.D. Theses in English
- Jeffrey Miles, "Hazardous Experiments: The Elusive Prefaces of William Godwin, Mary Hays, William Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley," January 2012.
- Gregory Brophy, "Graphomania: Composing Subjects in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction and Technology," November 2010. Second Reader.
- Christopher Bundock, "'Composing Darkness': Romantic Prophecy and the Phenomenology of History," September 2010. Chief Supervisor.
- Nigel Joseph, "Repression and Imperial Power: Contractualism in John Locke, Jane Austen, and the Victorian Romance," 2006.
- Joshua Toth. "The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary," 2006. Second Reader.
- Nathaniel Leach., "'Refusing Form in Vain': Ethics, Literature, and the Gothic-Romantic Imagination," 2004.
- Justin Baird, "History's Recesses: The Counter-historical Fictions of Sophia Lee, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley," 2003.
- Rodica Ieta, "The Faces of Hypertext: James Joyce's Discontinuous Storytelling," 2003. Second Reader.
- Ranita Chatterjee, "Dialogues of Desire: Intertextual Narration in the Works of Mary Shelley and William Godwin." 1998.
- Joel Faflak, "Subjects Presumed to Know: The Scene of Romantic Psychoanalysis," 1998.
- Peter Jaeger, "ABC of Reading TRG: Steve MacCaffrey, bp nichol, and Critical Care." 1997. Second Reader.
- Irena Nikolova, "Envisioning the Transcendental: The Problematics of Darstellung in Shelley, Keats, Novalis, and Hölderlin." September 1997. Chief Supervisor.
- Michael O'Driscoll, "The Truth in Pointing: Whitman, Pound, Cage, and Text as Index," 1996. Second Reader.
- Julia Wright, "The Politics of Textuality: `Unceasing Practise' in Blake's Works," 1994.
- Miglena Nikolchina, "The Polylogic Text: Reading Woolf via Kristeva." 1993. Second Reader.
- Michael Sider, "The Dialogic Keats." 1993.
- Peter Georgelos, "The Daughters of Beulah: a critique of gender in Blake's poetry," September 1992. Chief Supervisor.
- Monika Lee, "The Presence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the Writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Comparison of Theories of Language," 1992.
Master's Theses in English
- Joshua Lambier, "Romantic Disaster: Kant, Shelley, and the Question of History," May 2006.
- Mark Hewitt, "Romancing Aesthetics: Literary Theory in Hegel's Philosophy and the Jena Fragments," 2001.
Ph.D. Theses in Theory
- Cristian Melchiorre, "Cinema and the Culture of Trauma." Second Reader, September 2011.
- Jared McGeough. "The Potencies of a Romantic Anarchism: Schelling, Blake and Godwin," June 2011.
- John Vanderheide. "The Allegory of Apokastasis," January 2011.
- Mark Asberg, "Go On, Give Up: Cynical Aporias," 2008.
Master's Theses in Theory (Chief Supervisor only)
- Andrew Kingston, "Hegel's Unconscious: Analysing Matter in The Philosophy of Nature," August 2013. Chief Supervisor
- Marc Mazur. "The Cruelty of Reading: Reading and Writing in the Works of Friedrich Schelling," September 2012. Chief Supervisor
- Christopher Morrison, "PostHeideggerianism and the Co-ontological Horizon," 2005.
- Andrea Dumbrell, "A History of Care in the Work of Michel Foucault," 2005.
- Shea Coulson, "Art-Object: Adorno's Aesthetics of Critique," 2005.
- Joshua Lambier, "Justice, Community, and the Romantic Political Unconscious," 2005.
- Jonathan Murphy, "OntoEpistemology After Metaphysics: A Critique of the Space of Representation," 2004.
- Jeremy Proulx, "Non-Contemplative Idealism: A Reading of Schelling's Early and Middle Work," 2004.
- Elana Commisso, "Simulate This! Figurations of Simulacra: The Truth(s) That Belie Representation," 2003.
- Surti Singh, "Negativity in Hegel," 2002.
- John Vanderheide, "The Paralogical Search: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Allegory," 2002.
- Heather Snell, "Spacing the Event: The Theoretical Performance of Jean Baudrillard," 2000.
- Mark Asberg, "Towards a Kantian Ethics of (In)decisive Obligation," 1999.
- Brett Buchanan, "Who is Nietzsche's Philosophy: Psychological Remainders of Post-Kantian Anthropology," 1999.
- Neil Gohill, "Spirit in Schelling's Freedom Essay," 1998.
- John Sawicki, "Towards an Aestheticized Politics (and/or a Politicized Aesthetics) of Radical Apathy," 1997.
- Mark Rozahegy, "Levinas and the Architecture of Alterity," 1995.
- William McConnell, "Figuring Paul de Man: Literary History and the Indeterminacy of the Reading/Writing Subjects." September 1993. Chief Supervisor.
Master's theses in Comparative Literature
- Nashifa Dharshi "The Romantic Absolute."
Ph.D. Theses in Progress
Department of English
- Rebecca Gagan, "Learned Bodies: Romantic Epistemology and the Idea of the Existential University."
- Joshua Lambier, "Romanticism and the Vital Life of Right."
- Jeffrey King, "Dark Sympathy: Desiring the Other in Godwin, Coleridge, and Shelley."
- Elizabeth Effinger, "The Romantic Posthuman and Posthumanities."
- Gord Barentsen, "Romantic Metasubjectivity." Second Reader
- Derek Shank, "The Aesthetics of Romantic Hellenism."
Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
- Elana Commisso. "The 'College de Sociologie' and Its Progeny: French Theory or the After-Lives of Inter-war Intellectual Communities."
- Adina Arvatu, "The (Un)thought of the Archive: Materialism and Transcendentalism in Foucault, Derrida, and Benjamin."
- James DePew. "After Anthropology: From University History to Metamodelling." Co-supevisor.
- Ben Woodard, "Dynamics Ungrounded: Speculative Physics and the Physics of Speculation in F.W.J.Schelling's Realist Theory of Nature."
- James Hall, thesis on Delay in 19th century thought and literature. Chief Supervisor.
Comparative Literature
Ph.D. theses
- Naqaa Abbas, "These Samples of the Finest Orientalism: Resistances to a Readability of the Orient in British and German Romanticism," Graduate Programme in Comparative Literature Co-supervisor.