Teaching and Supervision

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Graduate Courses at University of Western Ontario

Romanticism

  • Romanticism and Reading
  • Romantic Narrative
  • Romanticism, Narrative, Historiography
  • Romantic Historiographies
  • Romanticism and the Idea of Literature
  • The 1790s and their Afterlives
  • Romanticism and Revolution
  • Revolution and Deconstruction: Literature and Thought 1790-1825
  • Aesthetics and Pathology in Romanticism 

 

Theory

  • Critical Method
  • Modes of Theoretical Discourse
  • Deconstruction Before and After Post-Structuralism
  • The Persistence of Phenomenology in Contemporary Theory
  • Revisiting Idealism
  • Idealism and the Margins of Philosophy: (Inter)Disciplnarity in Kant, Hegel, and Schelling 
  • Zones of Entanglement: Philosophy, The Life Sciences and Medicine, 1785-2012
  • What is Philosophy?: Philosophy and Theory from Kant to the Late 20thc.
  • The Pharmakon of Nature: Philosophy, Speculation, and the Life Sciences 
  • Life and Organisms: The Impact of the Life Sciences on Philosophy

 

Theses Supervised at University Of Western Ontario

Ph.D. Theses in English

  • Marc Mazur, “Unread: The (Un)published Texts of Romanticism,” November 2018, Chief Supervisor.
  • Gord Barentsen, “Romantic Metasubjectivity: Rethinking the Romantic Subject Through Schelling and Jung,” August 2017, Joint Supervisor (with Joel Faflak).
  • Derek Shank, “The Aesthetics of Romantic Hellenism,” October 2015, Chief Supervisor.
  • Elizabeth Effinger, “The Romantic Posthuman and Posthumanities,” March 2014, Chief Supervisor.
  • Jeffrey King, “Dark Sympathy: Desiring the Other in Godwin, Coleridge and Mary Shelley,” November 2013, Chief Supervisor.
  • 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.
  • Kim Murphy, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Reading as a Dialogue Between Ideological Horizons," September 1993. Second Reader.

 

Ph.D. Theses in Theory

  • Justas Patkauskas, “An Archaeology of Contemporary Speculative Knowledge,” November 2020, Chief Supervisor (international student)
  • Jonathan Doering, “The Weak Survival of French Rhetoric,” October 2019, Chief Supervisor.
  • Ben Woodard, “Schelling’s Naturalism: Motion, Space and the Volition of Thought,” September 2015, Chief Supervisor (international student).
  • 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)

  • Colby Chubbs, “Hegel Avec Kleist on Marriage,” October 2019.
  • Domenic Hutchins, “The Passing Away of Nature: Two Essays on Natural History,” June 2018. (International student)
  • Andrew Kingston, "Hegel's Unconscious: Analysing Matter in The Philosophy of Nature," August 2013.
  • Marc Mazur. "The Cruelty of Reading: Reading and Writing in the Works of Friedrich Schelling," September 2012. 
  • 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. 

 

Master's theses in Comparative Literature

  • Naqaa Abbas, “Organizations of Knowledge About the Orient in German and British Romanticism 1780-1820,” Comparative Literature, August 2016. Joint Supervisor (with Angela Esterhammer)
  • Nashifa Dharshi, "The Romantic Absolute," 2011.

 

Ph.D. Theses in Progress

Department of English

  • Andrew Sargent, “Citational Selves: Citation and the Ruins of Romanticism,” Chief Supervisor.
  • Rajarshi Banerji, “Fearless Asymmetry: De-Ciphering Life in Romanticism.” Chief Supervisor.
  • Adam Mohamed. “Romantic Poetry and Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Spaces of Difference.” Chief Supervisor.
  • Ileana Zavala Gonzalez. “Unknowing the Self: Spectrality as the Meconaissance of Romantic Subjectivity.” Second Reader.

 

Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism

PhD Theses

  • Thomas Wormald, “Pathways and Peregrinations: A Genealogical and Philosophical Exploration of Plasticity.” 
  • Grant Dempsey, “Worlds and World-Making: An interdisciplinary Theory of Ontological-Existential Pluralism.” 
  • Dylan Vaughn, “Moralités Lyotardiennes: The Metaphysical Retort of Lyotard’s Philosophical Dialogue.” 
  • Jeremy Arnott, “Systematic Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Idealist Architechtonic.” 
  • Thomas Doerksen, “The Rational Materialist Attitude of Modern Science.”
  • Nicholas Birmingham, “Diagrammatic Thought from Maimon to Chatelet.”

 

MA Theses

  • Daniel Le Blanc, “Hegel’s Philosophy of the Two."

 

Postdoctoral Students Supervised

  • Jan Plug (Ph.D., SUNY- Buffalo)
  • Kevin Hutchings (Ph.D., McMaster)
  • Jonathan Murphy (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo)