Degrees and institutions granting the degree

• SUNY at Buffalo, PhD (2007)
• University of Debrecen (Hungary), University Diploma (1999)

Professional Areas of Specialty

• Critical and Literary Theory; Psychoanalysis; Contemporary Political Theory;
• Twentieth Century Literatures; Modernism; Cold War Studies;
• Translation and Translation Studies;

Selected Publications

Book:

• The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture. Forthcoming from Fordham University Press in 2012.

Selected Articles:

• "Modern and Postmodern Developments." In Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume 5: The Twentieth Century (1900-2000). Ed. Lawrence Venuti. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2013.
• "The Parapraxis of Translation." Forthcoming in CR: The New Centennial Review 12.1 (Spring 2012).
• "Affirmative Judgments: The Sabbath of Deconstruction." parallax 56.3 (2010): 74-84.
• "The Mother Tongues of Modernity: Modernism, Transnationalism, Translation." Journal of Modern Literature 33.2 (Winter 2010): 24-46.
• "Deconstruction and Experience: The Politics of the Undeconstructible." In A Leftist Ontology: Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics. Ed. Carsten Strathausen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 125-146.
• "Faulkner in the Fifties: The Making of the Faulkner Canon." Arizona Quarterly 63.2 (Summer 2007): 81-107.
• "Freud and the Prophetic." Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 11.3 (December 2006): 265-81.

Selected Translations

Book:

• Rodolphe Gasché. Phenomenology and Phantasmatology: System and Metaphoricity in Georges Bataille's Philosophy. Forthcoming from Stanford University Press (From German to English).

Selected Articles:

• Werner Hamacher. "The Relation." CR: The New Centennial Review 8.3 (2008): 29-69. (From German to English)
• Rodolphe Gasché, "Dé-lire: Bataille and the Delirium of Reading." theory@buffalo 12 (2008): 8-33. (From German to English)
• Monique David-Ménard, "‘Stationary Process and Infinite Speed': Psychoanalysis with Psychosis." Umbr(a) 2006: 41-51. (From French to English)
• Christian Jambet, "The Stranger and Theophany." Umbr(a) 2005: 27-41. (From French to English)

Recently Taught Courses

• ENGL 200: "Introduction to English Studies"
• ENGL 270: "Literary and Critical Theory"
• ENGL 305A "The Novel: 1700-1900"
• ENGL 405E: "Transatlantic Modernism"
• ENGL 405E / 805E: "Modern Fiction: Global Modernisms"
• ENGL 871: "Literary Criticism and Theory"
• ENGL 971: "Aesthetics and Politics: Badiou, Agamben, Rancière"