Ushering in Banality
Stuart Barnett

 

curriculum vitæ
 
   Jeff Koons, Ushering in Banality

 
EDUCATION


Ph.D., Comparative Literature (with distinction), State University of New York at Buffalo, 1990

M.A., Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1988

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1985-1986

M.A., German, University of Virginia, 1985

B.A., Columbia University, 1983

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1981-82

BOOKS


Friedrich Schlegel: On the Study of Greek Poetry,Stuart Barnett, ed. and trans. (SUNY Press, 2001).

Hegel After Derrida,ed. Stuart Barnett (London & New York: Routledge, 1998).

ARTICLES



"Eating My God," in Hegel After Derrida, Stuart Barnett, ed. (London & New York: Routledge, 1998) 131-144.

"Divining Figures in Flaubert's Salammbô,"in Nineteenth-Century French Studies 21(Fall-Winter 1992-1993) 73-87.

"Resisting Subjects: Habermas On the Subject of Foucault," in Transitions in Continental Philosophy, Arleen B. Dallery and Stephen H. Watson, eds.  (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994) 43-56.

"Refused Readings: Narrative and History in Thomas Pynchon's 'The Secret Integration,'" PynchonNotes 22-23(1988) 79-85.

"Über die Grenzen:  Semiotics and Subjectivity in Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie,"GermanQuarterly 60(1987) 407-419.

INTERVIEWS



"Turning Japanese: An Interview with Donald Richie," Connecticut Review (Spring 2002)

"Literature in Theory: An Interview  with Andrew Parker," Connecticut Review19(Fall 1997): 117-126.

"Apart From Philosophy: A Part of a Conversation with Andrew Benjamin," Connecticut Review19(Spring 1997): 91-105.

"Geistersprache:An Interview  with Geoffrey Hartman," Connecticut Review18(Fall 1996): 21-38.

TRANSLATIONS



Jean-Luc Nancy, "The Surprise of the Event," Hegel After Derrida, (Routledge).

Heinz Kimmerle, "On Hegel's Derrida Interpretation," Hegel After Derrida, (Routledge).

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, "Required Reading: On Victor Farias' Heidegger et le nazisme,"DiacriticsFall-Winter 19(1989): 38-48.

Hans-Jost Frey, "Literature, Ideology," Responses: On Paul de Man'sWartime Journalism, Werner Hamacher, Neil Hertz, and Thomas Keenan, eds. (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1989) 185-192.

INVITED LECTURES



"After Goethe: The Culture of Coprophagia," Harvard University, April 8, 2002. 

"The Age of Romanticism: Schlegel From Antiquity to Modernity," Yale Universty, October 7, 1999.

"On the Masochistic Pleasure of High Theory," SUNY Buffalo, March  27, 1999.

"Der Postmoderne Krieg," Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, June 9, 1997.

"Foucault and Sexuality," Rochester University, April 9, 1992.

LECTURES



". . . being . . . transitive . . ," presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 3-8, 2002.  Special Session: Close Encounter with Jean-Luc Nancy. 

"From Weimar With Love," presented at the Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland, July 25-31, 1999.

"Postmodernism Institutionalized," presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, May 11-15, 1999.

"Goethe und kein Ende," presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 27, 1998.

"The Drama of Finitude: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Ethics of Deconstruction," presented at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, George Mason University, May 9-12, 1996.

"Hegel and Derrida on Citizenship," Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, England, Sept. 14-17, 1994.

"The Sense of Art: Baumgarten and the Invention of Aesthetics," presented at the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Northeast American Society for Eigtheenth-Century Studies, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, September 30-October 3, 1993. (Also served as chair of the session).

"Origins of the Aesthetic Ideology" presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, Missouri, November 1-3, 1990.

"Habermas On the Subject of Foucault," presented at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 11-13, 1990.

"The Polytexts of Adorno," presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Buffalo, New York, October 4-7, 1990.

"Richard Rorty and the Idea of a Post-Philosophical Culture," presented at The Ends of Theory, Detroit, Michigan, March 15-18, 1990.

"Naming Gender in Schnitzler's Reigen,"presented at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 6-9, 1988.

"Kant's What is Enlightenment ? and the Question of Self-Government," presented at the annual meeting of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, October 29-31, 1987.

"Habermas On Post-Modern Rationality," presented at the Eleventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, St. Louis, Missouri, October 15-18, 1987.

"Theoretischer Sansculottismus: Classicism as a Way of Reading," presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 22-26, 1987.
 

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES



Session Chair, "Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics,"the SeventeenthAnnual Conference of the Northeast American Society for Eigtheenth-Century Studies, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, September 30-October 3, 1993

Respondent, "Money and Language in the Eighteenth Century," Annual Meeting of the MLA, San Francisco, California, December 27-30, 1991.

Session Chair, "Disciplines of the Body: The Eye, the Ear and the Hand," Herder: Disciplines of Knowledge, University of Virginia, April 12-15, 1990.

Session Chair, "Issues in Romanticism," Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, University Park, Pennsylvania, March 29-31, 1990.

Session Chair, "Science of/as Literature," at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference: Literature and Science,.Louisville, Kentucky, February 25-27, 1988.
 
 

BOOK REVIEWS


Gary K. Browning,  Lyotard and the end of grand narratives, Choice (Sept. 2001).
Hans Althaus, Hegel: An Intellectual Biography, Choice(Jan 2001). 
Theodor W. Adorno, Problems in Moral Philosophy, Choice (Dec 2000).
Theodor W. Adorno, Introduction to Sociology, Choice 
Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Correspondence,Choice. 
Thomas Wall, Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot, Agamben, Choice (Jan. 2000). 
Giorgio Agamben, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy, Choice (Sept. 2000). 
Peter Lawler, Postmodernism Rightly Understood, Choice (April 2000). 
David Levin, The Philosopher’s Gaze, Choice (March 2000) 3852. 
Ladelle McWhorter, Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization, Choice (Feb. 2000). 
Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo, Religion, Choice (Sept. 1999) 160.
Albrecht Wellmer, Endgames, Choice (June 1999) 1803. 
Jonathan Dollimore, Death, Desire, and Loss in Western Culture, Choice (March 1999) 1278. 
Jeffrey Bell, The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Post-Structuralism, Choice (March 1999) 1278. 
Christoph Menke, The Sovereignty of Art, Choice (Jan 1999) 902. 
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Sense of the World, Choice, (Sept. 1998) 145. 
John Caputo, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, Choice (1998) 1202.
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner, The Postmodern Turn, Choice  (May 1998) 1543. 
M. J. Delaney, "Since at least Plato . . ." and Other Postmodernist Myths, Choice (Dec. 1997) 647. 
Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, Choice (Sept. 1997) 140. 
John Caputo, Deconstruction in a Nutshell, Choice (July/August 1997) 1816. 
Terry Eagleton, The Illusion of Postmodernism, Choice (March 1997) 1174. 
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Muses, Choice (March 1997) 1176.
Peter Bornedal, The Interpretations of Art, Choice(January 1997).
David Cooper, Heidegger, Choice (December 1996). 
Jerrold Levinson, The Pleasures of Aesthetics, Choice  (October 1996). 
Richard Etlin, In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters, Choice (September 1996). 
Arthur Goldman, Aesthetic Value, Choice.
Jacques Derrida, Points, Choice.
Christopher Norris, Truth and the Ethics of Criticism forthcoming in Choice.
Art Berman, Preface to Modernism Choice (June 1995).
Suzanne Nalbantian, Aesthetic Autobiography, Choice.
Maria Tymoczko, The Irish Ulysses, Choice (October 1994): 189.
Martha Woodmansee, The Author, Art, and the Market, Choice (June 1994): 268.
Jeffrey Nealon, Double Reading, Choice.
Gordon Slethaug, The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction, Choice (Feb. 1994): 172. 
Linda Marlow, The Concept of Tugend, Lessing Yearbook, XXII, (1991).
Franz Kafka und die Prager Deutsche Literatur, Hartmut Binder, ed., German Studies Review 19(1990): 339-340.
Die Aufklärung als Prozeß, Rudolph Vierhaus, ed.,Lessing Yearbook, XXI (1990): 315-317.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Kafka:Toward a Minor Literature, Criticism, 29(1987): 552-554.

LECTURES ORGANIZED



Organizer, Lecture Series: Culture and Criticism, 1997-1998
Speakers: Paul Fry, Peter Burgard

Organizer, Lecture Series: Culture and Criticism, 1996-1997
Speakers: Geoffrey Hartman, Andrew Benjamin, Winfried Menninghaus, Andrew Parker
 

ACADEMIC HONORS & GRANTS



University of Pennsylvania Japan Seminar, 2001
NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship: Adorno, Mann, Schoenberg; James Schmidt, Director, Boston University, 2000.
Phoenix Award of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for "most improved academic journal" to Connecticut Review (served as editor in charge of academic articles), 1998
Yale University-Mellon Visiting Faculty Fellow, 1995-1996 (sponsored by Geoffrey Hartman)
DAAD Fellowship, 1985-1986

 

Kelly Jarvis,

Joan Sussler, Nobody's Fault:

Thomas Wankerl, On the Imperial Storyteller: A New Historicist View of the Changing Image of India in Victorian Writing, M.A. Thesis, Director
Women in the Palliser Novels, M.A. Thesis, Director
Walt Whitman, M.A. Thesis, Second Reader 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS



Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, 2001-
Associate Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, 1996-2001
Assistant Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, 1992-1996
Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Rochester, 1991-1992
Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Hampshire College, 1990-1991
 
 



 

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