Jacques Lezra

Curriculum Vitae · August 2026
Distinguished Professor, Departments of Hispanic Studies and English
University of California, Riverside · 2401 HMNSS Building · Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-3746 · jacques.lezra@ucr.edu · jacques.lezra@gmail.com · Academia.edu · ORCID

Contents

  1. 01Academic Employment
  2. 02Education and Degrees
  3. 03Awards, Honors, Grants
  4. 04Bibliography — Monographs
  5. 05Bibliography — Edited Volumes
  6. 06Articles, Chapters, Review Essays, Conference Proceedings
  7. 07Translations
  8. 08Work Forthcoming, Under Contract, or In Progress
  9. 09Dissertation
  10. 10Invited Guest Lectures, Plenary Talks and Conference Papers (since 2018)
  11. 11Other Publications and Other Media
  12. 12Roundtables and Public Discussions
  13. 13Professional Service — Editorial
  14. 14Other Professional Service
  15. 15University Service — UC Riverside
  16. 16University Service — NYU
  17. 17University Service — UW–Madison
  18. 18Research Groups and Grants
  19. 19Teaching Interests
  20. 20Languages
  21. 21Dissertations Directed and Supervised

01Academic Employment

8/2020–
Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and English, University of California—Riverside
3/2025–6/2025
Visiting Professor, Université Paris-8, Department of Philosophy
1–12/2022
International Chair in Contemporary Philosophy, Université Paris-8 (Vincennes/St. Denis)
9–10/2021
Visiting Professor, Université Paris-8, Master de traduction and Master d’études transnationales et transculturelles
6/2017–2021
Chair, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of California—Riverside
6/2016–8/2020
Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of California—Riverside
11/2018
Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago (Chile). Graduate seminar on “De la institución defectiva”
8/2018
Visiting Professor, Instituto de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile). Graduate seminars on “¿Qué significa ‘fundar’?” and (with Valeria Campos Salvaterra) “Cuestiones fundamentales de la ética: Fundamentos de ética recursiva en Descartes”
1/2008–8/2017
Professor of Spanish, English, German and Comparative Literature, New York University
9/2008–2014
Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University
9/2008–2017
Co-director, Program in Poetics and Theory and NYU International Center for Critical Theory (Beijing-Tokyo-New York)
1991–
Literature Faculty, Bread Loaf School of English Summer Program, Middlebury, Vermont; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Juneau, Alaska; Monterey, CA.
2011–12
Director of Academic Planning, NYU-Madrid
1/2010–3/2010
Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California--Irvine
9/2007–1/2008
Visiting Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, New York University
6/2001–12/2007
Professor of English and Spanish Literature, University of Wisconsin at Madison
6/2003–7/2007
Director of Graduate Studies in English, University of Wisconsin at Madison
8/2002–7/2003
Resident Director, Wisconsin-Indiana-Purdue Study Abroad Program, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
9/99–1/2000
Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
5/96–5/2001
Associate Professor of English and Spanish, University of Wisconsin at Madison
8/93–5/96
Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin at Madison
1991 Summer
Visiting faculty, NEH Summer Program on "Boccaccio and Medieval / Renaissance Narrative" at Yale University
1991–2
Director of Undergraduate Studies, The Literature and Comparative Literature Majors, Yale University
1/89–6/1993
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Yale University

02Education and Degrees

5/90
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Yale University
5/87
M.Phil. Comparative Literature, Yale University
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École Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne, Paris (in residence Jan.-Sept. 1987)
1985
Scuola di Lingua e Cultura per Stranieri, Siena (Jul.-Aug. 1985)
1984
B.A. summa cum laude in Comparative Literature, Yale University
1979–81
Deep Springs College

03Awards, Honors, Grants

5/2025–
Chercheur International Associé, Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches sur les Logiques Contemporaines de la Philosophie (LLCP – Ea 4008), Université Paris-8, Department of Philosophy
2025
Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Université de Paris-8 (St. Denis-Vincennes)
2023–24
Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College (Oxford) (Hilary term)
2024–2029
Member, International Advisory Committee
European Research Council Starting Grant: The Spontaneity of Freedom ($1,604,786)
2022
Chaire Internationale de Philosophie Contemporaine, Université de Paris-8 (St. Denis-Vincennes)
2021–2022
Supervisor/co-PA (with Idoia Quintana), Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, ‘A forgiveness-based approach: An analysis of forgiveness and its uses in the Basque conflict,’ MSCA IF Global program
2014–15
Remarque Fellow, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
2010
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for “The Problem of Translation,” a Dissertation Seminar in the Humanities for AYs 2011-2012. (With Emily Apter)
2010
Robert Frost Chair in Literature, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury, VT
2009
Chercheur associé, Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris (Summer 2009)
2006
Research and Publication Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture & United States Universities, for Sebastián de Covarrubias: Biografía documental y crítica (below)
2004
University of Wisconsin Center for European Studies Faculty Travel Award
University of Wisconsin Graduate Research Committee Research Award (for Sebastián de Covarrubias: Biografía documental y crítica)
2002
Laurence Urdang-Dictionary Society of North America Award for Tesoro de la lengua castellana, o española
2001
Department of English UW-Madison Distinguished Graduate Teaching Prize
1999–2000
NEH University Faculty/High-School Collaborative Exchange Grant, with Cassandra Gniady (Bread Loaf School of English)
1999
Spanish Ministry of Culture Publication Grant for Sebastián de Covarrubias: Suplemento al ‘Tesoro de la lengua castellana, o española’
1999–2001
Vilas Research Associate, University of Wisconsin
1998
Frank and Eleanor Griffiths Chair in Literature, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury, VT
1997
University of Wisconsin Faculty Development Grant (on leave Spring 1998)
1997 Summer
University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research Grant
1994–1995
University of Wisconsin--Hilldale Student-Faculty Research Grants
1993
PEN Club of Puerto Rico, First Prize in Literary Criticism for Visión y ceguera: Ensayos sobre la retórica de la crítica contemporánea (Puerto Rico: Editorial Universitaria de Puerto Rico, 1991.

04Bibliography — Monographs

Disciplina moriendi: Derrida, la mediación 'Hispana'. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Grapho, 2024.
Defective Institutions: A Protocol for the Republic. New York: Fordham University Press, 2024. doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9781531506902.001.0001
— Review essay: Thomas Cryer (University College London). “Jacques Lezra, Defective Institutions: A Protocol for the Republic.” H-History-and-Theory, H-Net Reviews, November 2024.
República salvaje: De la naturaleza de las cosas. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Macul, 2020.
— Review essay: Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, “Singularidad, forma y gobierno. Lucrecio y los términos de un republicanismo material y salvaje.” OXÍMORA: Revista Internacional De Ética y Política 17 (2020), 139–145.
On the Nature of Marx’s Things: Translation as Necrophilology. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. fordhampress.com
— Review in Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, April 2019. At marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/16858_on-the-natu…
— Syndicate “Forum” on On the Nature of Marx’s Things, with extended comments by Jason Read, Peter Gratton, and Tracy McNulty, and responses by Jacques Lezra, at syndicate.network/symposia/literature/on-the-natur…
— De la Naturaleza de las Cosas de Marx: Traducción como necrofilología. A translation into Spanish, by Valeria Campos Salvaterra et al., of On the Nature of Marx’s Things. With a new Prologue by Pablo Oyarzún. Santiago, Chile: Metales Pesados, 2022.
— Named one of the best books of 2023 in the field of “Traducción e interpretación,” La Vanguardia (Spain), June 24, 2023. www.lavanguardia.com/libros/genero/traduccion-e-in… .
Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought. London: Rowland & Littlefield International, 2017. rowmaninternational.com
— Review in Tropelías. Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada 31 (2019), 476-479.
— Review essay by Brian O'Keeffe, The Comparatist 44 (2020), 332-353.
— Máquinas Intraductoras. A translation into Spanish of Untranslating Machines, by Rodrigo Zamorano et al. Buenos Aires: Palinodia, 2023.
“Contra todos los fueros de la muerte”: El suceso cervantino. Buenos Aires: Editorial La Cebra, 2016.
— Review in Hispania 101: 3 (2018), 463-465.
— Review by Zachary Brandner and John Beusterien, "Jacques Lezra. ’Contra todos los fueros de la muerte': El suceso cervantino." Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, 39:1, spring 2019.
Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823232352.001.0001
— Reviews in Choice (April 2011: “Recommended”), Umbra (Fall 2011), Journal for Cultural Research (Spring 2012).
— Materialismo salvaje: La ética del terror y la república moderna. Madrid: Siglo XXI/Biblioteca Nueva, 2012. A translation into Castilian Spanish, by Javier Rodríguez, of Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic. With a new Introduction by Étienne Balibar.
— Reviews in Diario de Sevilla and Diario de Cádiz (www.diariodesevilla.es/article/delibros/1421011/vi…), Ágora: Papeles de filosofía (Spring 2013).
— 野性唯物主义. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2013. A translation into Chinese, by Wang Qin, of Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic. With one new chapter; Étienne Balibar’s Introduction to Materialismo Salvaje; and a new Foreword.
Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
— Reviews in: Cervantes, MLQ, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et de la Renaissance, Shakespeare Studies, The Comparatist, Modern Philology, Shakespeare Survey.

05Bibliography — Edited Volumes

Ed., with José Luis Villacañas, Erin Graff Zivin, and Alberto Moreiras. Terror. La perspectiva hispana. Madrid: Escolar, 2020.
Ed., with Stathis Gourgouris and Ann Stoler. Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823288519.001.0001
Ed., with Tara Mendola. Allegory and Political Representation. A special issue of Yearbook of Comparative Literature, YCL 61 (2015). 2017.
Ed., with Liza Blake. Lucretius and Modernity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56657-7
Ed., with Emily Apter and Michael Wood. Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon. Princeton: Princeton University Press. February 2014. press.princeton.edu A translation into English of Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies, ed. Barbara Cassin. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2004. Winner of a 2015 Outstanding Reference Sources Award, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association; One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2015; One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2014; One of The Times Higher Education Supplement's Books of the Year 2014; One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014.
— Reviewed by Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker.
— Reviewed by Christopher Prendergast, London Review of Books.
— Reviewed by Tim Crane, The Times Literary Supplement.
— Reviewed by Douglas Kerr, South China Morning Post.
— Review essay by Lucie Mercier, Theory, Culture & Society 33:7–8 (2016), 355–360.
— Reviewed by Michael Punt, Leonardo / Leonardo Reviews (ISAST), May 2022.
— Also reviewed in Asymptote and The Independent.
Ed. Spanish Republic. A special issue of Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 6:2 (2005). Includes an “Editor’s Introduction: Distracted Republic,” by Jacques Lezra.
Ed., with Georgina Dopico Black. Sebastián de Covarrubias: Suplemento al ‘Tesoro de la lengua castellana, o española’. A transcription of Covarrubias’s manuscript “Suplemento” (after 1611), with an introduction and critical apparatus, by Jacques Lezra and Georgina Dopico-Black. Madrid: Polifemo, 2001. Reviews in: ABC (5/20/01); “A Dictionary of Español,” Chronicle of Higher Education (5/25/01); Ronda Iberia (Summer 2001); “Autobiografía de la lengua,” Babelia: Suplemento Cultural, El País (8/11/01).
Ed. Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. A special issue of Yale French Studies, YFS 88 (1995). 228 pp.
— Review in The French Review.

06Articles, Chapters, Review Essays, Conference Proceedings

99. “Del defecto de las instituciones.” Bellas Letras: Semanario Político-cultural, 3/25/2025. Santiago, Chile. Online at bellasletras.cl/1209-2
98. “Magna parens terra est.” In “Radical Aesthetics: Imagining, Organising, Enacting Democratic Futures.” Krisis 45:1 (2025). Pp. 91-104. krisis.eu/article/view/42408
97. “Du Reste du deuil. ” In Claire Buchbinder, ed. Nurith Aviv: Filmer la parole. Paris: Éxils, 2025. Pp. 218-220.
96. “Triomphes d’Épicure.” In Elias Jabre et al., eds. Plus d'une discipline: actualités de La vie la mort, Paris: Hermann, 2024. Pp. 271-279.
95. “Lacrimae rerum: Institution of Grief.” In Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin, eds., Niobes: Antiquity Modernity Critical Theory. Columbus, OH:Ohio State University Press, 2024. Pp. 223-237.
94. “’[C]ounting your heads / As I’m making the beds’: Piratesthetics, Weill-Brecht to Simone.” In Laura Chiesa, ed. Resonances Against Fascism: Modernist and Avant-Garde Sounds from Kurt Weill to Black Lives Matter. SUNY Press, 2023. Pp. 35-48.
93. “Like.” Political Concepts (2023). At www.politicalconcepts.org/like-jacques-lezra
92. “Bad Laws: Torture Yoo.” In Left Theory and the Alt-Right. Ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Sophia McClennen. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 163-171.
91. “Instituciones defectivas: Un protocolo para la república.” Enrahonar 71 (2023), 1-21. doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1484
90. “Institución del duelo.” Palabra y razón 23 (2023), 279-301.
89. “One Badiou?: Parodies of Philosophy.” JFFP: Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 30: 1 (2022), 1-16. doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2022.1006
88. 「警察の審級――不完全な制度について ("Keisatsu no shinkyu: fukanzen na seido nitsuite,” “Instance of the police: on defective institutions.” Trans. Yuki Ueda. In『主権の諸条件』(Shuken no sho jouken). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2022. Pp. 5-24
87. “Art and Class struggle: The Diagrammatic Imaginary.” ArtMargins 10.3 (2022), 99-103.
86. “The Schema of Institution.” Philosophy Today, 66:2 (2022), 385–404. doi.org/10.5840/philtoday202224443
85. “Defective Institutions, or, Critique.” In Thiele, Kathrin and Birgit Kaiser, eds. Ends of Critique. London: Rowland Littlefield, January 2022. Pp. 201-218.
84. “Du rien-pour-nous que la mort: Derrida Épicure.” Síntesis: Revista de filosofía IV:2 (2021), 131-140.
83. “The Diagrammatic Imaginary.” Escritura e Imagen 17 (2021), 287-290.
82. “Derrida en ‘América Latina.’” Rizoma 1:1 (2021), 34-47.
81. "El concepto que me consta: Constant Performance." JSCS 20 (2021), 1-11.
80. "Insufficiency." Interfere 1:1 (2020). Online at interferejournal.org/current-issue. Spanish translation, “Insuficiencia,” by Gonzalo Díaz Letelier. Pléyade 37:1 (2026), 117 – 141. Online at www.revistapleyade.cl/index.php/OJS/article/view/5… .
79. "Introducción" and “Efeméride/Institución.” In Terror. La perspectiva hispana, eds. José Luis Villacañas, Erin Graff Zivin, Jacques Lezra, and Alberto Moreiras. Madrid: Escolar, 2020. Pp. 9-19 (“Introducción”). Pp. 161-168 (“Efeméride/Institución”).
78. “Relation.” In Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice, eds. Jacques Lezra, Stathis Gourgouris, and Ann Stoler. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. Pp. 211-230. Video of the concept-talk in the Political Concepts Video Lexicon (Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University), at youtu.be/Lc7oaI2y5MA.
77. "Introduction: '...beneath these clouds'" to Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice: Three Essays on Walter Benjamin, Tr. Stephen Gingerich. Cambridge (UK): Polity Press, 2020. Pp. ix-xxix.
76. “Introduction” to Carlo Diano, Form and Event. Tr. Timothy Campbell. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. Pp. 1-27.
75. “Le type espagnol.” In Kate Jenckes and Patrick Dove, eds. YCL. Yearbook of Comparative Literature 63 (2020), 138-159.
74. “Malêtre: de l’axiome de la traduction.” In “Étienne Balibar: Les singularisations de l'Universel,” ed. Susana Villavicencio. Revue des Cahiers critiques de philosophie 22 (2019), 173-182. Spanish translation by Francisca Gómez Germain in Balibar, Universales, tr. Lezra, Trujillo, Gómez Germain. (Santiago: Pólvora Editorial, 2021).
73. “Ragozine’s Beheading: Dramatic and Civil Logics of the European State-Form.” In M. A. Katritzky and Pavel Drábek, eds. Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. 242-259.
72. “Imaginary Labour.” In Marina S. Brownlee, ed. Cervantes’ ‘Persiles’ and the Travails of Romance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. 223-242.
71. “Deshacerse (castral).” Introduction to Valeria Campos Salvaterra, Comenzar con el terror: Ensayos sobre filosofía y violencia. Santiago (Chile): Editorial Prometeo, 2019. Pp. 9-15.
70. “Entonces—Acotaciones al Hegel de Trujillo.” Introduction to Iván Trujillo, Arte y Hostilidad: La estética hegeliana y la violencia del pensamiento. Santiago (Chile): Editorial Pólvora, 2019. Pp. 9-17.
69. “El tipo español.” In “Contingencias.” Santiago (Chile): Editorial Mimesis. Online at: edicionesmimesis.cl/index.php/2019/08/21/el-tipo-e…
68. “Necrophilology.” In Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, ed. Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media After Melville. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2019.
67. “De la naturaleza de las cosas de Marx.” Escrituras americanas 3:1 (2018), 190-240. (Expanded version of “On the Nature of Marx’s Things,” [52 below], translated into Spanish by Claudio Aguayo and Miguel Carmona.)
66. “Contrainstitución de la razón populista.” In ¿El populismo por venir?, ed. Ángel Loureiro. Madrid: Escolar y Mayo, 2018. Pp. 187-201.
65. “Better.” In Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon (New School for Social Research), v. 5:1: “The Trump Edition” (2018). Online at www.politicalconcepts.org .
— “Conceptos políticos: ‘Mejor’.” Tr. into Spanish by Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier.¨ Ficción de la Razón November 25, 2024. Online at ficciondelarazon.org/2024/11/25/jacques-lezra-conc… .
64. “Absolutización de las violencias, violencia de la absolutización: la universidad desde la contingencia.” Tr. Rodrigo Zamorano. In La universidad (im)posible, eds. Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby, Mary Luz Estupiñán, raúl rodríguez freire and Willy Thayer. Santiago: Ediciones Macul, 2018. Pp. 113-124.
63. “The Object of Allegory (A Polemic).” In Allegory and Political Representation, eds. Jacques Lezra and Tara Mendola. YCL61(2015). Pp. 86-102.
62. “Cervantes on ‘Derrida’: Hispanism in the Open.” In Erin Graff Zivin, ed. The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism. New York: Fordham University Press, November 2017. Pp. 15-30.
61. “Translation.” In Jay Bernstein, Adi Ophir, and Ann Stoler, eds., Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. New York: Fordham University Press. November 2017. A reprint of “Translation.” In Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon (New School for Social Research), v. 2, online at www.politicalconcepts.org ; full version in Hebrew translation, at Mafte'akh (University of Tel Aviv), mafteakh.tau.ac.il/en . Tr. Liron Mor. Pp. 208-231.
60. “Trumplatonism.” In Translating Trump/Traduire Trump. Contemporary French & Francophone Studies/SITES. Vol. 21.5. New York, London: Routledge, 2017.
59. “Diese Unübersetzbarkeit, die (k)eine ist.” In Sage Anderson, Sebastian Edinger, Jakob C. Heller, and Emanuel John, eds., Übergänge: Perspektivierungen aus Literaturwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaft und Philosophie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017. Pp. 193-208. (Translation into German, by Sage Anderson et al., of “This Untranslatability Which Is Not One.”)
58. “Uncountable Matters.” Oxford Literary Review 39:1 (2017), 17-41.
57. “Soberanía o traducción: las decisiones de Sancho.” Tr. Rodrigo Zamorano. In Juan Pablo Hormazábal, Josefina Rodríguez and Nicolás Vicente, eds. El lugar de la literatura en el siglo XXI. Valparaíso: Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso, 2016. Pp. 133-161.
56. “End of Translation.” In Humanities Futures. John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University. Available online at humanitiesfutures.org/papers/end-of-translation .
55. “La ética del terror.” (Reprint of ch. 1 of Materialismo salvaje.) In Geroratutako bakea: Erakusketa baten inguruko dokumentu eta testuak = La paz aplazada: Documentos y ensayos en torno a una exposición. Artium (Barcelona): Fundació Antoni Tàpies, L.G. (2018).
54. “Terror” and “Translation.” In Mercedes Bunz, Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele (eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary. Lüneburg: Meson Press, 2016. Pp. 211-217 and 223-231.
53. 雅克·莱兹拉：“不可数的物质” [Bukeshu de wuzhi]. Trans. by Qin Wang of “Uncountable Matters.” Journal of Hangzhou Normal University 5 (2016), 24-34.
52. “On the Nature of Marx’s Things.” In Lucretius and Modernity. Ed. Jacques Lezra and Liza Blake. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 125-143.
51. “Foreword.” To José Luis Villacañas, Populismo. Madrid: La Huerta Grande, 2015. Pp. 9-11.
50. “Corpora caeca: Discontinuous Sovereignty in Il Principe.” In The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy and Language. Ed. Filippo del Lucchese, Fabio Frosini and Vittorio Morfino. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. 128-143.
49. “On Contingency in Translation.” In Early Modern Cultures of Translation. Eds. Karen Newman and Jane Tylus. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 153-174.
48. “This Untranslatability Which is Not One.” Paragraph 38:2 (2015), 174-188. doi.org/10.3366/para.2015.0156
47. “The Animal in Translation.” Postmodern Culture 24.1, September 2013 (March 2015). At muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v024/24.2… .
46. “Bestialität: Vermittlung more ferarum.” In Tiere als Medium und Obsession. Zur Politik des Wissens von Mensch und Tier in Literatur, Wissenschaft und Okkultismus um 1900. Eds. Cornelia Ortlieb, Patrick Ramponi, and Jenny Willner. Tr. by Barbara Natalie Nagel. Berlin: Neofelis, 2015. 303-316.
45. “Bestiality: Mediation More Ferarum in Jensen and Freud.” In Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction. Eds. Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Barbara Natalie Nagel, and Lauren Shizuko Stone. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. 125-135.
44. “Helen’s List.” PMLA 130:1 (January 2015), 163-166. doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2015.130.1.163
43. “Post-hegemonía/Contingencia.” In Post-hegemonía. El Final de un Paradigma de la Filosofía Política Contemporánea en América Latina. Eds. José Luis Villacañas and Rodrigo Castro Orellana. Madrid: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, 2014. Pp. 113-123.
42. "Gegenstände in der Übersetzung. Eine Zukunft der Kritik." In Gegen/Stand der Kritik. Eds. Andrea Allerkamp, Pablo Valdivia Orozco, and Sophie Witt. Tr. Pablo Valdivia Orozco. Zürich/Berlin: diaphanes, 2014. Pp. 29-48.
41. “Assez, assez de vérité.” In Les Pluriels de Barbara Cassin: Ou le partage des équivoques. Ed. Philippe Büttgen, Michèle Gendreau-Massaloux and Xavier North. Paris: Éditions le Bord de l’eau, 2014. Pp. 117-129
40. “Trade in Exile.” In Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater. Eds. Rob Henke and Eric Nicholson. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2014. Pp. 199-216.
39. “El caso del soberano en el inconsciente: La escena primaria de la teología política.” Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas. 17:1 (2014), 151-179.
38. “Enough.” In Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon (New School for Social Research), v. 3, online at www.politicalconcepts.org .
37. “Machiavelli’s The Prince, ch. XXV.” A video commentary. Available online at www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/research-groups-and-… .
36. “Geography.” In Christopher Marlowe in Context. Eds. Emma Smith and Emily Bartels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 125-137.
35. “The Disciplining of don Quijote and the Discipline of Literary Studies.” eHumanista/Cervantes 1 (2012), 488-513. Online at www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/Cervantes/volume%201/index…
34. “Translation.” In Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon (New School for Social Research), v. 2, online at www.politicalconcepts.org ; full version in Hebrew translation, at Mafte'akh (University of Tel Aviv), mafteakh.tau.ac.il/en . Tr. Liron Mor.
33. “The Primal Scenes of Political Theology.” In Political Theology and Early Modernity. Ed. Julia Lupton and Graham Hammill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. 183-212.
32. “Adorno’s Monsters.” In Escape to Life: German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933. Eds. Eckart Goebel and Sigrid Weigel. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012. 27-54.
31. “The Futures of Comparative Literature.” Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (Shanghai), January 2012, 82-89.
30. “La mora encantada: Covarrubias en el alma de España.” Académica, Boletín de la Real Academia Conquense de Artes y Letras, 6 (January 2011), 459-493. (A reprint of “La mora encantada: Covarrubias en el alma de España,” from Sebastián de Covarrubias: Suplemento al ‘Tesoro de la lengua castellana, o española,’ above).
29. “A New Cultural Studies, or, Fratricide.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 11:3-4 (2010), 277-289.
28. “The Pleasures of Infanticide.” Qui Parle 19:1 (2010), 153-180.
27. “Hispanism: disciplina moriendi.” “Afterword” to Death and Afterlife in the Early Modern Hispanic World. Eds. John Beusterien and Constance Cortez. Hispanic Issues Online 7, 2010. At hispanicissues.umn.edu .
26. “’Want-wit’ Discipline.” Shakespeare Quarterly 61:2 (2010), 240-245.
25. “Marranes que nous sommes?” Rue Descartes 66 (2009), 44-57.
24. “Filología y Falange.” In USA Cervantes. Treinta y nueve cervantistas de la academia norteamericana. Eds. Georgina Dopico and Francisco Layna. Madrid: Polifemo, 2009. Pp. 761-797.
23. “’A Spaniard Is No Englishman’: The Ghost of Spain and the British Imaginary.” In “Intricate Alliances: Early Modern Spain and England,” ed. Marina Brownlee. A special issue of Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:1 (2009),119-141.
22. “The Indecisive Muse: Ethics in Translation and the Idea of History.” Comparative Literature 60:4 (2008), 301-330.
21. “Translated Turks on the Early Modern Stage.” In Theater Crossing Borders: Transnational and Transcultural Exchange in Early Modern Drama. Eds. Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2008. Pp. 159-180.
20. “Phares, or Divisible Sovereignty.” In Sovereign, Citizens, and Saints: Political Theology and Renaissance Literature. Eds. Julia Reinhard Lupton and Graham Hammill. A Special Issue of Religion and Literature (38:3, Autumn 2006), 13-39. Longer, revised version in Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic.
19. “Last Summers in Tangier: Immigration and Colonial Melancholia.” In Voices of Tangier. Ed. Khalid Amine et al. Tangier: Abdelmalek Essâdi University, 2006. Pp. 17-23.
18. “Sade on Pontecorvo.” Discourse 26:3 (Fall 2005), 48-75. Revised version in Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic.
17. “Nationum Origo.” In Nation, Language and the Ethics of Translation. Eds. Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 203-229.
16. “The Ethic of Terror in Radical Democracy.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 7 (2003), 173-93 (appeared January 2005). Longer, revised version in Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic.
15. “Unrelated Passions.” Differences 14:1 (Spring 2003), 74-87.
14. “Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, and German Idealist Philosophy.” In The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Literary Criticism and Theory 1945-2000. Ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
13. “Disastrous Looking.” ALH 12:3 (Summer 2000), 407-416.
12. “’La mora encantada’: Covarrubias in the Soul of Spain.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 1:1 (February 2000), 5-30 (longer version, in Spanish, included as part of the introduction to Sebastián de Covarrubias: Suplemento al ‘Tesoro de la lengua castellana, o española’, above).
11. “La economía política del alma.” In ‘En un lugar de la Mancha’: Estudios en honor de Manuel Durán. Eds. Roberto González-Echevarría and Georgina Dopico-Black. Salamanca: Colegio de España, 1999. Pp. 149-78.
10. “How to Read How to Write.” Modernism/Modernity 5:1 (1998), 117-29. (Published with responses from Charles Altieri and Linda Voris.)
9. “Odontologies.” In Madness, Melancholy, and the Limits of the Self. Graven Images 3 (1996), 90-102.
8. "Spontaneous Labor" and Editor's Introduction: "Labors of Reading.” In Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading, ed. Jacques Lezra (above). 78-117 and 1-5. Longer version of "Spontaneous Labor" included in Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic.
7. "Freud's Sickle.” Yale Journal of Criticism 8 (1995), 59-101. Revised version in Unspeakable Subjects.
6. "Foucault's Perfection.” Contemporary Literature 35:3 (1994), 593-623.
5. "El cíclope.” Editor's introduction to Visión y ceguera.
4. "'The lady was a litle peruerse': The 'Gender' of Persuasion in Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie.” In Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism. Eds. Joseph Boone and Michael Cadden. New York: Routledge, 1990. Pp. 53-65.
3. "Pirating reading: The Appearance of History in Measure for Measure." ELH (1989), 255-92. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 13 (1990), 112-127. Longer version in Unspeakable Subjects.
2. "Squared circles, encircling bowls: Reading Figures in Tres Tristes Tigres.” Latin American Literary Review 16:31 (1988), 6-23.
1. "La estética del poder: los tiempos de la promesa en Don Juan Manuel.” Cuadernos para investigación de la literatura hispánica 8 (1987), 63-74.

07Translations

“’El más eficaz defensor de la soberanía ‘: El diálogo oculto entre Arendt y Schmitt sobre la soberanía,” by Viktoria Huegel. Translated into Spanish by Jacques Lezra. In Carl Schmitt: New Readings on Dictatorship, Sovereignty, and the Concept of the Political, ed. Santiago M. Zarria. Lima, Peru: Central University of Ecuador Press, 2026.
“Interview with Nurith Aviv.” In Presskit for ‘Prénoms,’ dir. Nurith Aviv. Translated into English by Jacques Lezra. Les Films D’Ici, 2025.
The One: Descartes, Plato, Kant, by Alain Badiou. Translated into English by Jacques Lezra, with Susan Spitzer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Reviewed by Hassan Melehy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), H-France Review 24 (September 2024), no. 59.
Universales: Feminismo, deconstrucción, traducción, by Étienne Balibar. Translated into Castilian Spanish and with postscript essays by Jacques Lezra, Iván Trujillo, and Francisca Gómez. Santiago (Chile): Pólvora Editores, 2021.
Selections from María Zambrano, Pueblo y Democracia. In María Zambrano Amongst the Philosophers: A Reconsideration, ed. by Mari Paz Balibrea, Francis Lough, and Antolín Sánchez Cuervo. History of European Ideas 44:7-8 (2018). A translation into English by Jacques Lezra. Available at doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2018.1517002 .
“’God is God’: Essay on the Violence of Tautological Propositions,” by Stanislas Breton. A translation into English by Jacques Lezra of Breton’s “’Dieu est Dieu’: Essai sur la violence des propositions tautologiques,” in Stanislas Breton, Philosophie buissonnière (Grenoble: Millon, 1989), 133-140. In “Allegory and Political Representation.” A special issue of Yearbook of Comparative Literature (2017), pp. 203-211.
Visión y ceguera, by Paul de Man. A translation into Spanish (with Hugo Rodríguez Vecchini) of de Man's Blindness and Insight. With an introduction, bibliography and notes by Jacques Lezra and Hugo Rodríguez Vecchini. Puerto Rico: Editorial Universitaria de Puerto Rico, 1991; 1992. 365pp + ci pages.

08Work Forthcoming, Under Contract, or In Progress

Books, collections of essays

De la deconstrucción del fascismo. Leer con Paul de Man. Forthcoming 2026, Santiago: Ediciones Macul.
The Politics of Little Words. (Under consideration)
“¿Cómo se piensa la IA?” Co-editor (with Gonzalo Díaz Letelier and Lucila Tosolino), special issue of Pléyade: Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales 40 (2027). (In preparation.)
Accidental Modernity: The Drama of Translation Between Spain and England, 1499-1625. (In preparation.)
Sebastián de Covarrubias: Biografía documental y crítica, with Georgina Dopico. Madrid: Polifemo. (Under contract.)

Articles, occasional essays

“¿En Pa-?” Introduction to Andrés Ajens, La Máscara Más Cara (De Un Baciyelmo En Pausa) Santiago, Chile (2026).
“Can There Be Populist Institutions?”’ In Viktoria Huegel, ed. Populist Movements and Democratic leadership. Forthcoming, Routledge 2026.
“Derrida as an ‘American’.” In Catherine Malabou, ed., “Memoires For Jacques Derrida.” Derrida Today. Forthcoming inFall 2027.
“Atroce économie: Char” In Futures of Resistance: Translating the (Untranslatable) wartime poetry of Rene Char, ed. Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood. Forthcoming.

Scholarship about my work, press and interviews (sel.)

“Disciplina moriendi: Entrevista a Jacques Lezra por Inger Flem Soto.” In Esferas 17 (April 30, 2026), 80-88.
Roundtable discussion about Jacques Lezra, Defective Institutions: A Protocol for the Republic. 2025 Convention of SPEP, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. With Jason Read (University of Southern Maine), Massimiliano Tomba (University of California Santa Cruz) and Elissa Marder (Emory University).
Dossier Disciplina moriendi. Escrituras Americanas. (2025) Essays about Disciplina moriendi by Valeria Campos, Matías Bascuñán, Alejandro Fieldbaum, Rodrigo Karmy and Marcela Rivera.
Valeria Campos and Matías Bascuñán, “Presentación: Disciplina moriendi,” in «Aporías de la traducción. Perspectivas Transdisciplinares», International colloquium organized by Niklas Bornhauser (UNAB), Inger Flem Soto (USC), Diego Fernández (UDP) and Manuel Ugalde-Duarte (UChile), September 2024.
Valeria Campos and Alejandro Fieldbaum, “Presentation: Disciplina moriendi.” Librería FCE (Valparaíso, Chile).
Rodrigo Karmy and Marcela Rivera, “Presentation: Disciplina moriendi.” Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (Santiago, Chile).
Rubén Bracero Salvat, “Impression: The definition of an (auto)biography: Professor Jacques Lezra and Sebastián de Covarrubias.” University of Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies. Online at earlymodern.web.ox.ac.uk/definition-autobiography-… .
Vanessa Gubbins, “Salvaje performance, soberana (in)decisión. Leyendo República salvaje de Jacques Lezra.” Escrituras americanas. Serie III (2024), 159-168.
Oliver Feltham, “Interview with Jacques Lezra.” American University of Paris, 17th May 2022. In S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, S 13 (2022): 15-30.
Res Publica 25: 1 (2022): Monográfico sobre Jacques Lezra. dialnet.unirioja.es/ejemplar/599019 Ed. Juan Leal Ugalde, Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott. Essays by Erin Graff Zivin (“De la naturaleza de las cosas de Lezra,” 3-9); Matías Bascuñán (“Poder, representación, imaginación. El republicanismo salvaje de Jacques Lezra ante el fantasma de la soberanía,” 11-21); Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier (“Noema, institución y universidad en el giro de la principialidad a la axiomática. Jacques Lezra, necrofilología y deconstrucción afirmativa,” 23-30); Alejo Stark (“Marx, ciencia de la contingencia,” 31-39); Claudio Aguayo Bórquez (“Jacques Lezra: posición defectiva,” 41-48); Matias Beverinotti (“De lo vampírico a lo salvaje: mordida y política de las relaciones de producción capitalistas,” 49-57); Vanessa Gubbins (“Salvaje performance, soberana (in)decisión. Leyendo República salvaje de Jacques Lezra,” 59-64); Karen Benezra (“Sobre la transferencia: Lacan y Althusser,” 65-74); Sol Peláez (“El republicanismo como terror femenino,” 75-85); Juan Leal Ugalde (“El terror del plano especular: el nudo entre cine y materialismo salvaje,” 87-96); Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott (“República y poema,” 97-108).
“Remaining faithful to contingency. A dialogue with Jacques Lezra.” In K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts 6:1 (2021), 249-255. Available at revue-k.univ-lille.fr/numero-6-1-2021-lucretius-un…
“La materia y el accidente. Conversación con Jacques Lezra y su pintura.” Interview with Paula Cucurella. DobleA Editores (Santiago, Chile). Available at dobleaeditores.cl/2020/12/15/paula-cucurella-la-ma…
"La institución como objeto psicoanalítico." Yoica. September 28 2020 (Av. Alvaro Obregón 270, Colonia Hipódromo, Ciudad de México. C.P. 06100). Available at www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=yoica%20lezra&e… and www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSIUs9TrZQA&ab_channel… )
"Objects in 'Relation': Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and Political Philosophy." Interview with Wang Qin. In Journal of Modern Chinese Studies, Vol. 5 (2018), 4-10
“Sovereignty, Subject, and Predication: An Interview with Jacques Lezra." Interview with Wang Qin. In Reviews and Research on Chinese Literature (现代中文学刊) 3 (2017)
“La filosofía internacional veranea en Cuenca.” An interview about “Pensamiento y Terror Social: El Archivo Hispano,” III Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional. Real Academia Conquense de Artes y Letras. Cuenca, Spain. Cadena Ser Castilla-La Mancha. July 6, 2016. Available online at cadenaser.com/emisora/2016/07/06/ser_cuenca/146781…
“Entrevista con Jacques Lezra.” An interview about Materialismo salvaje, with Iván Pinto. El Desconcierto (Santiago, Chile), “Cultura y Calle.” June 5, 2016.
Available online at www.eldesconcierto.cl/cultura-y-calle/2016/06/05/j… . Reprinted in culturacanibal.blogspot.com .
“Translating the Untranslatable.” On “Please Explain.” The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC. Friday, November 6, 2015. Available online at www.podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program/episode.jsp?prog… .
“Dossier: Conceptos defectivos y materialismo salvaje.” Res publica, November 2015. Collecting interviews of Jacques Lezra by Wang Qin and Claudio Aguayo; the Spanish translation of the foreword to 野性唯物主; and “Materialismo salvaje: Terror, concepto débil y república,” an essay about Materialismo salvaje by Claudio Aguayo.
“Materialismo y soberanía divisible. Entrevista con Jacques Lezra.” An interview about Materialismo salvaje with Claudio Aguayo. In Demarcaciones: Revista Latinoamericana de estudios Althusserianos, 3 (April 2015). At revistademarcaciones.cl/?page_id=606
“How to Translate an Untranslatable Book.” The Washington Post—PostEverything, July 16, 2014. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/1…
“Intraducible: (adj.) del latín, 'tradere'...” An interview with Luis Alemany. El Mundo (Madrid), 6-17-2014, EM2 : 67, online at www.elmundo.es/cultura/2014/06/17/539f1dcb268e3ed7…
“Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Approach to Problems in Early Modern Literature.” A conversation with Jane Tylus. NYU-Florence, Dec. 22, 2014. Available online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSjw9S5PS0g
“‘Fei zhuti’: dongwu, quexianxing gainian yu jijin gonghezhuyi: laizila jiaoshou fangtan” (“’Non-subjects’: Animal, the Defective Concept, and the Radical Communitarianism—An Interview with Jacques Lezra”). Interview with Wang Qin. Hangzhou shifandaxue xuebao (Journal of Hangzhou Normal University), no. 1 (Hangzhou: 2013).
“When Humanities Falter…” Remarks at “The Humanities and Personhood,” a faculty forum at the NYU Humanities Initiative, May 8, 2013, online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG8TNRgJYsk at 39’:58
“Don Quixote.” A one-hour interview aired on Wisconsin Public Radio’s University of the Air, February 27, 2005.
“Peeling Back the Layers of a Touchstone of Spanish Culture.” Peter Monaghan, The Chronicle of Higher Education 47.37 (2001): A18-9. Article concerning the publication of Covarrubias’s Suplemento al ‘Tesoro de la lengua.’

09Dissertation

"Icarus Reading: Trope, Trauma and Event in Shakespeare, Cervantes and Descartes," Thomas Greene and Roberto González Echevarría, directors. Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University. 1990.

10Invited Guest Lectures, Plenary Talks and Conference Papers (since 2018)

May 2026
“Dilapidar: Desvíos o transformaciones de la plusvalia en el ia-ceno.” A paper presented at the VI Coloquio Internacional Louis Althusser, Universidad de Los Lagos/ Universidad de Chile—Santiago, Chile.
February 2026
“Alien (Values).” A paper presented at the annual convention of the American Comparative Literature Association, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montreal, 26 February–1 March 2026.
December 2025
“Fascismos.” Invited Guest Lecture. Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, Seminario de Investigación Avanzada Estudios del Cuerpo (ESCUE). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
October 2025
“Alien Values.” Keynote presentation, conference on “Alienation in History, Estrangement in Language.” Università di Firenze DILEF, Florence, Italy.
September 2025
“Fascismos: Del objeto de la literatura (Cómo leer a Paul de Man).” Seminar, Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile.
June 2025
“Theatre as Tyrannicide as Theatre: Lope's El divino africano, Augustine and Anti-theatricalism.” A paper presented at “Theatre Without Borders 21,” Hotel Chellah, Tangier, Morocco.
May 2025
“Paleo-resistances” (with Emily Apter). A paper presented at “Resistance and its Futures: Translating the (Untranslatable) Wartime Poetry of René Char.” A conference held at the Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University.
April 2025
“Machines à fragments.” Invited guest lecture, Laboratoire d’études et de recherches sur les Logiques Contemporaines de la Philosophie. Department of Philosophy. Université de Paris-8, Paris.
April 2025
“Derrida in ‘America’.” A paper presented at “Memoires—for Jacques Derrida.” A conference held at the University of California—Irvine.
March 2025
“Magna parens terra est:” The logic of catastrophism.” A paper presented at “Thinking with Wendy Brown: Democracy in Nihilistic Times.” Brighton. University of Brighton Center for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics (CAPPE) and School of Humanities and Social Science.
March 2025
“Série événement/contingence/nécessité: Deleuze et Guattari.” Invited guest lecture, Séminaire “L’acte et la coupure.” Department of Philosophy. Université de Paris-8, Paris.
March 2025
“What is Now? Sabotage, Hallucination?” A workshop at Center for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics (CAPPE). Brighton. University of Brighton.
March 2025
“Ce qui reste à faire.” Atelier “Concepts politiques.” Paris. Université de Paris-8.
February 2025
“Now.” A paper presented at “The End(s) of Democracy? Political Concepts.” Brown University.
December 2024
“Now.” A paper presented at “Southern Political Concepts.” University of California—Irvine.
October 2024
“Little Words.” A paper presented at “Urgencies: Political Concepts X.” New School for Social Research.
June 2024
“All Eyes on Gaza.” A paper presented at “Theatre without Borders 20.” Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
March 2024
“A Rule for Anarchism (Graeber or Malabou).” A paper read at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference Seminar “Reading Catherine Malabou’s Stop Thief!”, Montreal, CA.
March 2024
“Translation as Institution.” Invited Guest Lecture, University of Illinois—Chicago. “Forum on 15.”
March 2024
“Can there be ‘Populist’ institutions?” Keynote address, conference “Populist Movements and Democratic leadership.” Heidelberg University--Karl Jaspers Centre.
February 2024
"Being Definitive: Early Modern Lexical Culture and the Politics of Conversion in Sebastián de Covarrubias's 1611 Tesoro de la Lengua Castellana Española": CEMS Masterclasses. Centre for Early Modern Studies, Oxford University.
January 2024
"Disciplina moriendi: Derrida's Hispanism.” Invited Guest Lecture, Oxford University Spanish Research Seminar.
June 2023
“Theatre of Abolition, Abolition of Theatre: Shiloë, Siloam.” A paper presented at “Theatre without Borders 19.” Verona, Italy.
— “Strategies: Ecocide.” A paper presented at “Terra Critica X: Rural Imaginations.” Veenhuizen and Amsterdam (Netherlands).
March 2023
“Waking up in the South, from the South.” A paper read at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference Seminar “Southern Concepts,” Chicago, IL.
November 2022
“Lacrimae rerum: Del gesto mortal en filosofía.” Keynote address, Seminario Políticas del gesto. Pontificia Católica Universidad de Valparaíso/Universidad Diego Portales.
November 2022
--“Traducir lo intraducible.” Invited Guest Lecture, Centro de Estudios en Literatura Comparada Maiorana (CELC, FFyL), Universidad Católica Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
— “La institución defectiva.” Invited Guest Lecture, Facultad de Ciencias Religiosas y Filosóficas, Universidad Católica del Maule (Talca, Chile). Online at cutt.ly/CMV4hs0.
October 2022
“Intuicionismo.” Invited Guest Lecture, Jornadas Américo Castro, “Historia y Aspectos del Vivir Hispánico (1885-1972),” Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Universidad Carlos III (Madrid).
June 2022
“Vers l’institution du non-commun.” Plenary lecture, with a response by Étienne Balibar. Maison de l’Amérique Latine (Paris), under the joint auspices of Université de Paris-8, École Normale Supérieure, EHESS, and Université de Paris-1 (Sorbonne).
June 2022
--“Memento mori, or, deflection.” Position paper delivered at “Terra Critica IX: Critical Transformations.” Universiteit Utrecht. Online at terracritica.net/publications/#2022
September 2021
“ACAB.” Invited Guest Lecture, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics, University of Brighton.
July 2021
“Qualified Immunity or Conditional Sovereignty.” Inaugural lecture, University of Tokyo Global Studies Initiative.
May 2021
Discussant, “Spinoza After Marx.” Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Jewish Studies Program, Program in Comparative Literature & Theory, University of Pennsylvania.
November 2019
"Defective Institutions: Or, Critique." Invited guest lecture and seminar, Brown University Pembroke Center seminar, "The Question of Critique."
July 2019
"El tipo español: Derrida, Borges, intraducibilidad." Keynote address, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago, Chile). Conference on "Challenges of Translation. Translation’s Theoretical Issues, Practical Densities: Violence, Memory, and the Untranslatable.” Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Filosofía, Artes y Humanidades de la Universidad de Chile (CIEFAH).
April 2019
“‘[C]ounting Your Heads / As I’m Making the Beds’: ‘Piratesthetics,’ from Weill-Brecht to Simone.” Plenary talk, “Sounds: Avant-Garde, Modernism, Fascism. A symposium exploring the intersection of aesthetic experimentation and critical theory in connection to music and the work of Kurt Weill.” University at Buffalo Humanities Institute.e
— “No Untranslatability, Not Now!” Invited guest lecture, University at Buffalo Department of Romance Languages.
April 2019
--“No Untranslatability, Not Now!” Invited guest lecture at workshop on “Europe in Translation: Multilingualism in Theory and Practice.” Center for European Studies, University of Wisconsin—Madison.
March 2019
“Spanish type, type of Babel.” A paper read at the American Comparative Literature
October 2018
“Cervantes and Populism.” Department of Spanish, University of California—Santa Barbara. Invited public lecture.
— "Pueblo frío, sujeto cruel: del masoquismo como virtud populista." Plenary address, conference on “Populism across Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics.” University of California—Riverside.
August 2018
“Cervantes, la Contrainstitución.” Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile). Invited public lecture.
August 2018
“Singular multitud: Breve manual para hacer de literaturas, filosofía." Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Playa Ancha. Viña del Mar (Chile). Invited public lecture.
June 2018
“Grounds for Materialism.” Public Talk and Master Class. Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) / Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
June 2018
--“The Right to Theatre, the Theatre of Rights.” A paper presented at “Theatre without Borders 14.” University of Hull Department of Drama. Hull, UK.
May 2018
“De la ‘Soberanía’ de la Institución.” Plenary address, conference on "Latinoamérica en Perspectiva: nuevas conceptualizaciones en tiempos de cambio." Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
May 2018
--“Intensity: Abstraction.” A paper read at the Latin American Studies Association convention panel on “Aesthetics and Thought.” Barcelona.
— “Malêtre, axioma.” A paper read at the V Seminario Crítico Político Transnacional. Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
April 2018
“The Ends of Populist Reason: Celluloid Cervantes.” Plenary talk at JSCS@20: A Conference to Celebrate 20 Years of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. New York University.
March 2018
“The Grundrisse.” Invited seminar, Program in Experimental Critical Theory, UCLA.
January 2018
“‘[C]ounting Your Heads / As I’m Making the Beds’: ‘Piratesthetics,’ from Brecht to Simone.” A paper read at the Modern Languages Association convention, New York.

11Other Publications and Other Media

“Lettre Errante: Un Film de Nurith Aviv,” directed by Nurith Aviv (Paris, Les Films d’Ici). Translation and English subtitles.
— Presentation 3/6/2024, Cinéma Les 3 Luxembourg
67 rue Monsieur le Prince, 75006 Paris.
“Des Mots Qui Restent: Un Film de Nurith Aviv,” directed by Nurith Aviv (Paris, Les Films d’Ici),. Translation and English subtitles.
— Presentation 3/22/2022, with Barbara Cassin, Cinéma Les 3 Luxembourg
67 rue Monsieur le Prince, 75006 Paris.
“You three” (2020) Acrylic and gesso, 4’ x 5’. Cover image for Tara S. Mendola, Strange Fire: Jewish Voices from the Pandemic. Teaneck, New Jersey: BenYehuda Press, 2021. With “You Three,” an “Artist’s statement,” pp. 4-6.
“Redembrace” (2018) Acrylic, ink on canvas, 4’ x 5’. Cover image for Barbara N. Nagel, Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond: Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence
“Burning Cities 1” (2013) Oil on canvas, 3’ x 3’ Cover image for vv.aa., Sujeto: Una categoría en disputa. La Cebra: Buenos Aires, 2015.
"Blue Shadow" (2017) Acrylic and gesso on canvas, 40" x 30". Cover image for Roni Hennig, On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death. Philadelphi: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.
“Lateral Red” (2016) Acrylic and mixed media, 4’ x 5’. Cover image for Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús, Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023.
“An idea of order” (2019) Acrylic and ink on raw canvas, 5’ x 5’. Cover image for Carla Mazzio, ed. Histories of the Future: On Shakespeare and Thinking Ahead. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

12Roundtables and Public Discussions

May 2025
“Philosophizing in Languages/Theorizing in Untranslatables.” Barbara Cassin in discussion with Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra (UC Riverside), John Hamilton (Harvard), Hent de Vries (NYU), Lydia Liu (Columbia). Maison Française, NYU.
April 2025
Centro Primo Levi and Anthology Film Archives (New York). Post-screening conversation about Nurith Aviv's Translating (2011) and Sacred Language, Spoken Language (2008) with Nurith Aviv, Aviya Kushner, James Redfield, Ofer Dynes, and Moulie Vidas. Part of “Filming Words: A Retrospective of Nurith Aviv’s Films,” co-sponsored by the Fordham University Center for Jewish Studies, Centro Primo Levi, and the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture.
January 2021
Doing Justice, a conversation with the author Pablo Oyarzun (University of Chile), Julia Ng (Goldsmiths, University of London), Paul North (Yale University), M. Ty (University of Wisconsin, Madison), moderated by Jacques Lezra (UC Riverside).
March 2015
“The Mellon Languages Initiative.” Roundtable discussion. The Humanities Center, NYU.
October 2010
“The Cosmopolitan Idea and Translation: A Conversation with Tahar ben Jelloun and David Damrosch.” NYU-Abu Dhabi Center, NY. Available online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0BK7rvY4p8
May 2009
“On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Evil.” Roundtable discussion with Richard Bernstein, Jacques Lezra, Edward Nersessian, Kent Reynolds, and Joel Whitebook. Philoctetes Center (New York), May 20, 2009. Available online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Qqhi5Jh0

13Professional Service — Editorial

Editor, Political Concepts (New York).
Co-Director, Ediciones Macul (Santiago, Chile).
Co-editor, with Paul North, of IDIOM, a book series at Fordham University Press (New York).
Editorial Advisory Board, “History of the Present,” a book series at Edinburgh University Press (05/2026- ).
Editorial Board, “New Critical Humanities” (Rowman and Littlefield International).
Associate Editor, Contemporary Literature.
Member, editorial board, JEMCS: The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies; Demarcaciones: Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Althusserianos; Political Concepts; Parallax; Décalages: An Althusser Studies Journal; Interfere; Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía; Colección “Discursos de la Post-modernidad” (Sevilla: ArCiBel); Res Publica: Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas.
Advisory Board, Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory (11/2018-12/2019).

14Other Professional Service

Endorsement, Gisela Catanzaro, Spectrology of Authoritarian Neoliberalism (Polity Press, “Critical South” series), February 2026.
Manuscript and translation reviews for presses (sel.): Polity Press—review of the sample translation of Pablo Oyarzún, Doing Justice (07/2019); Polity Press—manuscript review, Gisela Catanzaro, Spectrology of Authoritarian Neoliberalism (10/2024).
External Review Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon (Spring 2025)
External Review Committee, University of California—Irvine School of the Humanities (Fall 2024).
Judge, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, Modern Languages Association (2023-2024; 2008-2010; chair, 2009-2010; 2024-2025).
MLA Nominating Committee (2019-2022)
Chair, MLA Forum on “Literature and Philosophy” (2017).
MLA Committee on Honors and Awards (2014-2017).
ACLA 2014 @ NYU—organizer, Annual Convention of the American Comparative Literature Association, NYU.
“Actually/Actuellement.” An exhibit, within the “Temporary Center for Translation” at the New Museum (New York), about the Dictionary of Untranslatables. See the description online at www.newmuseum.org/blog/view/translation-is-impossi… .
"Literatura / Posthegemonía / Metapolítica"//“Literature / Posthegemony / Metapolitics”—co-organizer, Conference/Workshop, 16-19/6, 2014, Dpto. Historia Filosofía/ Grupo de Investigación Pensamiento Español y Latinoamericano, Univ. Complutense de Madrid.
Chair, External Review Committee, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University.
MLA Divisional Committee, “Philosophy and Literature,” 2012-2017.
“Lucretius and Modernity,” an International Conference at New York University (October 2011). Organizer.
Talk-back: “Cervantes, The Siege of Numantia.” Red Bull Theatre, New York (March 2009).
Supervising Committee, The English Institute (2003-2007).
MLA Publications Committee (1999-2002).
Secretary, MLA Executive Committee, Division of Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature (2000-2003).
Faculty reviews for University of Oregon, University of Massachusetts—Boston, Columbia University, Indiana University, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, University of Southern California, Cornell University, Yale University, Brown University, George Mason University, The New School for Social Research, Princeton University, Harvard University, SUNY-Binghamton, SUNY-Buffalo, University of Iowa, Wesleyan University, University of Delaware, Smith College, University of Richmond, Va., Washington University in St. Louis, Occidental College, UCLA, University of Washington, Vanderbilt University, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Referee for Political Theory; Síntesis; Cervantes; Philosophy and Rhetoric; Culture, Theory and Critique; Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism; Postmodern Culture; Modern Language Quarterly; Shakespeare Quarterly; Renaissance Drama; Nepantla; Nature, Society, Thought: A Journal of Dialectical and Historical Materialism; Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature; Mosaic; Contemporary Literature; College Literature; JSCS; Polity Press; University of Chicago Press, Stanford University Press, Fordham University Press, SUNY Press, Ashgate, University of Wisconsin Press, Cornell University Press, University of California Press, University of Delaware Press, Edinburgh University Press.

15University Service — UC Riverside

Elected to UCR Graduate Council (2025-)
Advisory Committee, University of California Humanities Research Institute

16University Service — NYU

Third-year reviews for probationary faculty in Departments of English, and NYU-Abu Dhabi Humanities faculty
Middle States Re-Accreditation Steering Committee
NYU-Library Promotion and Tenure Committee
Dean’s Committee for a Major in International/Global Studies (FAS)
Committee to Review the CNRS/NYU UMI
Dean’s Committee to Review the Department of East Asian Studies at NYU
Dean’s Committee to Review the Department of German at NYU
Search Committee, Department of German (2011; 2012)
NYU-Abu Dhabi Literature Search Committee (2009-2013; chair, 2010-2011)
NYU-Shanghai Literature Search Committee, Chair (2012-2013)
Academic Advisory Committee, “Our Shared Mediterranean: An International Conference Organized by the Center for Dialogues (NYU), with the cooperation of the French Government, the Mayor of Marseille, and the Union for the Mediterranean”
Albert Gallatin Society Scholars Program Leader, 2012-2013
CAS Sophomore Scholars Program Leader, 2009-2010, 2011-2012 (Madrid)
CAS Honors Committee, 2009-2011
FCC-Steering Committee
2009-2011 GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Committee
Encounters/Rencontres: CNRS/NYU Collaborative Research Group Steering Committee

17University Service — UW–Madison

Humanities Divisional Committee, College of Letters and Sciences (L&S) (2006-2008)
L&S Ad-Hoc Committee on Graduate Student Support (2006)
Chair, Review Committee, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies
L&S Graduate Research Committee (2003-2006)
Advisory Board, Center for the Humanities (2000-2003)

18Research Groups and Grants

European Research Council Starting Grant: “The Spontaneity of Freedom.”
Member of the International Advisory Committee
1 July 2024-30 June 2029
Amount: $1,604,786
Political Concepts. Research/conference/publication consortium (Brown, Columbia, CUNY-Graduate Center, New School, NYU, University of California—Riverside)
Beca Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación: Proyecto de investigación “Pensamiento Contemporáneo Posfundacional: Análisis teórico-crítico de las ontologías contemporáneas de la negatividad y la cuestión de la violencia del fundamento” (PID202-117069GB-100), 2021-2024. (PI: Laura Llevadot, Universitat de Barcelona)
Beca Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación: Proyecto de investigación "La contemporaneidad clásica y su dislocación: de Weber a Foucault" (PID2020-113413RB-C31), 2021-2025 (PI: José Luis Villacañas Berlanga – Rodrigo Castro Orellana)
PoliCrits: Red de Pensamiento Crítico Iberoamericano​ ​Contemporáneo www.policrits.com
SoCrit: Southern California Working Group on “Hispanism/Critical Thought”
Terra Critica: Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities (Utrecht/Hong Kong/London): terracritica.net
Theatre Without Borders, www.nyu.edu/projects/theaterwithoutborders
Seminario Crítico Político Transnacional (Harvard University—Universidad Complutense de Madrid—UCRiverside—University of Southern California)
Encuentro Argentino-Chileno de Filosofía Política, Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad de Córdoba, UMCE (Chile), Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
International Center for Critical Theory (NYU, PKU, University of Tokyo)

19Teaching Interests

Translation in theory and practice; theory of ideology; objects. The Materialist tradition, Lucretius-Malabou. Psychoanalytic and deconstructive criticism. Marx. Animal and animality studies. Contemporary Political Philosophy. Philosophical approaches to literature. Literary and critical theory. 20th century fiction, particularly post-1945 American and the contemporary Latin American novel. Early Modern Comparative Literature. Cervantes; Shakespeare. The visual culture of Early Modern Europe. Muslim Spain.

20Languages

Spanish (native); French (fluent); Italian (good reading, some speaking); German (reading); Latin.

21Dissertations Directed and Supervised

I have separated the PhD theses by Department, and within departments by whether I Directed or co-directed (both marked with a D), or advised/served on the dissertation committee. Where I know the institution at which the dissertator is currently teaching, or where s/he is working if now in a non-teaching or non-academic career, I have noted it. Order—most recent first.

Translation Studies

Juan de Miquel Figueras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) (In Process) D

Comparative Literature

Lupina Farhanà, UCR (In Process). D
Constanza Schaffner, “Romantic Anticapitalism, Aesthetic Realism, and Progressive Politics in the 60s: Bloch, Pasolini, Bresson.” NYU, 2024.
Charles Gelman, “The Extremist: Walter Benjamin and the Radical Critique of Society, 1912-1924.” NYU, 2019.
Daniel Howell, “Escritores públicos y papeles clandestinos: Labor, Literature, and Insurgency in Colonial Cuba.” NYU, 2018.
Siarhei Biareishyk, “Spinozan Mediations: The Limits of Materialist Thought in Novalis and His Contemporaries.” NYU, 2017. Senior Lecturer, Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania. D
Tara Mendola, “Manuscript Systems: Reading Floire et Blancheflor and Aucassin et Nicolette in Medieval Miscellany, 1200-1400." NYU, 2014. D
Katharina Piechocki, “Cartographic humanism: Defining Early Modern Europe, 1400--1550.” NYU, 2013. Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Michiel Bot, “The Right to Offend.” NYU, 2013. Assistant Professor, Tilburg Law School.
Liang-Hua Yu, “Unoriginal Sin: Transborder Media Flow, Visual Consumption, and the Emergence of the Chinese Global Shoppers.” NYU, 2013. Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Seton Hall University.
Magalí Armillas Tiseyra, “Dictates of Authority: Aesthetics with Politics in the Spanish American and African Dictator-Novel.” NYU, 2012. Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies, Penn State.
Daniel Hoffman Schwartz, “Tradition, Transference, Translation: Literary and Political Readings in the Burkean Imagination.” NYU, 2012. Visiting Assistant Professor, Princeton University.
Chi Man Wong, “The Chinese Latinization Movement, 1917--1958: Language, History and Politics.” NYU, 2012. Assistant Professor, University of Otago (New Zealand)
Erica Weitzman, “Returns of Laughter: Comic Irony in Walser, Kafka, and Roth.” NYU, 2012. "Associate Professor of German, Northwestern University."
Pu Wang, “The Phenomenology of "Zeitgeist:" Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution.” NYU, 2012. Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture, Brandeis University. Chair, Department of Comparative Literature.
Micaela Schweidson Kramer, “Brotherly Love: Gangs and Para-Political Formations in Latin American Literature.” NYU, 2012.
Jieun Chang, “National narrative, traumatic memory and testimony: Reading traces of the Cheju April Third Incident, South Korea, 1948.” NYU, 2009.
Ignacio Infante, “Poetics of transfer: Translation, cosmopolitanism and the intermedial in Twentieth-Century transatlantic poetry.” Rutgers 2009. Professor of Comparative Literature and Thought and Romance Languages and Literatures in Spanish, Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Co-Director of the WU Center for the Literary Arts. Washington University—St. Louis
Thomas B. Kuplic, “Poetics of revolution: Romantic imaginings of the political.” UW Madison, 2007. D
Mohammad Salama, “Reading the modernist event from the margins of history: The Denshawai incident, the trial of Djamila Bouhired and the question of Egyptian modernity.” UW Madison, 2005. Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, George Mason University. D

Spanish

Gonzalo Díaz Letelier, “La lengua del otro: Traducción, imperialidad occidental y cibernética.” UCRiverside, 2026. D
Óscar Valle, UCRiverside. D (In Process)
Elena Cardona, “Photopoetics of Migrant Memories: Archive, Body and Listening in Venezuelan Women Photographers (2016-2022).” UCRiverside, 2023. D (Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish Language and Culture, Soka University)
Judit Palencia, “Facies Hippocratica: Transitional Justice, Amnesty, and Denial in Contemporary Spain.” UCRiverside, 2022. D (Assistant Professor of Spanish, California State University, Fullerton)
Camila Moreiras Vilarós, “Saturated Lines, Invisible Image: Registering Vision in Spain’s New Media.” NYU, 2017. D.
Rocío Pichon Rivière, “Wanton Encounters: Women Writing the Skin of Politics in Contemporary Latin America.” NYU, 2017. D. Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCIrvine.
Amaury Sosa, “The Subject of Accountability: Delation and Dilation in Early Modernity.” NYU, 2017.
Vanessa Ceia, “Cuerpo Porro: The Semantics, Circulation and Consumption of Bodies in the (Audio)Visual Culture of the Movida Madrileña.” NYU, 2015.
Javier Rodríguez Fernández, “Poética de la evasión: La tragedia de la voz en Poeta en Nueva York, de Federico García Lorca.” NYU, 2015.
David Souto Alcalde, “Ideologías de lo ficcional entre la literatura moderna y la literatura pre-moderna: El Valor Radical de la Imitación.” NYU, 2015. Assistant Professor of Spanish, Trinity College. D.
Heather Cleary, “The Translator's Visibility: Scenes of translation in contemporary Latin American fiction.” Columbia, 2014. Assistant Professor, Sara Lawrence College.
Mar Gómez Glez, “My secret for myself: Teresa of Ávila’s uses of secrecy.” NYU, 2013.
Christopher Van Ginhoven, “The theurgic image: Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, and the institutional praxis of the Counter-Reformation.” NYU, 2010.
Dale Shuger, “A Thousand and one Quijotes: Madness in life and literature in Early Modern Spain.” NYU, 2008. Associate Professor of Spanish, Tulane University.
John Beusterien, “The libro verde: Blood fictions from Early Modern Spain.” UWMadison, 1997. Professor of Spanish, Texas Tech University.
Georgina Dopico Black, “Perfect wives, other women: Signs of adultery and inquisition in Early Modern Spain.” Yale, 1995. Provost and Professor of Spanish, NYU. D
Maria Mercedes Carrión, “Casas, palacios y castillos: El diseño arquitectónico y literario como figuración autorial en la narrativa de Teresa de Jesus.” Yale, 1990. Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature," Emory University.

English

Jovana Isevski, “The Politics and Culture of Predictive Processing.” UCRiverside (In Process.) D
Adrita Mukherjee, “The Opium Form: Black Writing, Colonial South Asia, and Shadow Economies of the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade.” UCRiverside (In Process.)
Sarah Line. “Ancient Lament Transformed.” UCRiverside (In Process.)
Liza Blake, “Early Modern literary physics.” NYU, 2013. Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto. D
Katherine Vomero Santos, “Staging translation in Early Modern English drama.” NYU, 2013. Associate Professor of English, Trinity University.
Amy Johnson, “Artificial order: Ethical aestheticism in 20th-century literature and contemporary narrative.” UW Madison, 2010. Instructor, University of Louisiana. D
Jason Cohen, “Political power in Francis Bacon's systems of natural knowledge (1603--1623).” UW Madison, 2008. Associate Professor, Berea College. D
John Opel, “Transformations in the sublime.” UW Madison, 2008. Madison College. D
Jonathan Ewell, “Literary politics: British literature and public debate: 1760—1820.” UW Madison, 2008. Lecturer, San Diego State University.
Matthias Rudolf, “The poetics of discovery: Materiality, aesthetics and history in British literature, 1798—1869.” UW Madison, 2007. D
Janine Tobeck, “Altered States: Ethical Ineconomies in Post-War American Fiction.” UW Madison, 2007. Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin—Whitewater. D
Michael LeMahieu, “Making reference: American fiction between positivism and postmodernism.” UW Madison, 2005. Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies and Professor of English, Clemson University. D
Matthew Stratton, “Praxis makes perfect: The politics of irony in Twentieth-Century American fiction.” UW Madison, 2005. Associate Professor of English, UCDavis. D
Gretchen Michlitsch, “Representations of Breastfeeding in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature: Lactation in Beloved, Dessa Rose, Like Water for Chocolate, The Antelope Wife, and Brown Girl in the Ring.” UW Madison, 2005. Associate Professor of English, Winona State University.
Elizabeth J. Rivlin, “Service, imitation, and social identity in Renaissance drama and prose fiction.” UW Madison 2004. Associate Professor of English, Clemson.
Travis Koplow, “Representing the people in early national America: The flag, the constitution, and the fiction.” UW Madison, 2004.
Mitchum Huehls, “Meaningful forms: Time and knowledge in contemporary American literature.” UW Madison, 2004. Associate Adjunct Professor of English, UCLA. D
Adam Kitzes, “’This river leads to Saturn’: The paradoxes of melancholy and political states in Early Modern England.” UW Madison, 2003. Associate Professor of English, University of North Dakota.
Jody Cardinal, "’Can you decline history’: Gender and Gertrude Stein's experimental engagements with history, 1927—1940.” UW Madison, 2003. SUNY-Old Westbury, Director, Writing Center.
Robert Darcy, “Misanthropoetics: Social flight and literary form in Early Modern England.” UW Madison, 2003. Professor of English, University of Nebraska—Omaha.
Thomas Crofts, “Fifteenth-century Malory: The social reading of romance in late Medieval England.” UW Madison, 2003. Professor of English, East Tennessee State University.
James Neighbors, “’All necks are on the line’: Representing history in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature.” UW Madison, 2002. Professor of English, Wofford College. D
Warren Oberman, “Existentialism and postmodernism: Toward a postmodern humanism.” UW Madison, 2001.
Rebecca Lemon, “Trying treason: Monarchy, law and rebellion in Shakespeare's England.” UW Madison, 2000. Divisional Dean for the Humanities and Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and History, University of Southern California.
Keiko Nitta, “Toward an American literary history of new national narratives: The significance of the anti-quest romance.” UW Madison, 1999. Professor, Rikkyo University.
Lisa Yaszek, “The self wired: Technology and subjectivity in contemporary narrative.” UW Madison, 1999. Professor and Associate Chair, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech
Katherine Adams, “Publicizing privacy: The subject of citizenship in American life writing, 1840--1870.” UW Madison, 1999. Associate Professor of English and Martha McCarty Kimmerling Chair in Women's Literature, Tulane University.
William Kuskin, “William Caxton and the English canon: Print production and ideological transformation in the late Fifteenth century.” UW Madison, 1997. Professor and Associate Vice Provost for Education Innovation, University of Colorado—Boulder
Rolf Samuels, “Reflexive sex: Sexual representation and pornography in contemporary American metafiction.” UW Madison, 1997. Associate Professor, Viterbo University.
Nicola Pitchford, “Redefining postmodernism: Contemporary feminist fiction and persistent myths of modernism.” UW Madison, 1994. Dean, School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Dominican University of California.

French

Kevin McCann, “After Nietzsche: 'The Innocence of Becoming' in André Gide, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault.” NYU, 2014.

German

Barbara Natalie Nagel, “Der Skandal des Literalen: Barocke Literalisierungen bei Gryphius, Kleist, Büchner.” NYU, 2012. Associate Professor of German, Princeton University.

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Jeannie Miller, “More than the sum of its parts: Animal categories and accretive logic in Volume One of Al-jahiz's Kitab al-Hayawan". NYU, 2013. Associate Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto.

Philosophy

Paula Sánchez Mayor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Filosofía. (In Process)
Debora Oliveira Ramos, “Décoloniser le temps pour réordonner la mémoire et le futur noir de la Diaspora.” Departamento de Filosofia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. D (In Process)
Miguel Vásquez, “El concepto de ciencia política en la temprana filosofía moderna. Los casos de Maquiavelo, Hobbes y Spinoza.” Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Filosofía, 2019. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Luis Villacañas, “Giro copernicano y ciencias sociales.” Universidad de Murcia, 2009. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Universitat de València.

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