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Interests: <\/strong>Modernist literature and visual art; critical theory and continental philosophy; the politics of aesthetics
and literary form; dialectical thinking; theories of modernity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD, English, Boston College, expected 2022
MA, Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2012
BA, Anthropology and Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Aesthetic Death Drive of Modernism.\u201d difference<\/em>s, vol. 31, no. 2, 2020, pp. 58\u201385.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Chapters:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAdorno as a Reader: Writing the Mediation of Literature and Philosophy.\u201d Modernism, Theory, and Responsible<\/em>
Reading: A Critical Conversation<\/em>, edited by Stephen Ross, Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Kafkaesque in the Trial of George Bluth.\u201d A State of Arrested Development: Critical Essays on the Innovative<\/em>
Television Comedy<\/em>, edited by Kristin M. Barton, McFarland, 2015, pp. 180\u201396.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Reviews:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review of Suzana Zink, Virginia Woolf\u2019s Rooms and the Spaces of Modernity<\/em>. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Modern Language Review<\/em>, vol. 115, no. 1, 2020, pp. 170\u201371.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review of Linda Nicole Blair, Virginia Woolf and the Power of Story: A Literary Darwinist Reading of Six<\/em> Novels<\/em>.
(McFarland, 2018). Modern Language Review<\/em>, vol. 114, no. 3, 2019, pp. 559\u201360.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review of Audrey Wasser, The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary<\/em> Form<\/em>
(Fordham UP, 2016). Twentieth-Century Literature<\/em>, vol. 63, no. 3, 2017, pp. 370\u201375.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Task of the Inheritor.\u201d Review of Gerhard Richter, Inheriting Walter Benjamin<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2016). Mediations<\/em>,
vol. 30, no. 1, 2016, pp. 91\u20135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public Writing:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKurt Vonnegut\u2019s Socialism From Outer Space.\u201d Tribune<\/em>. April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll Too Human: On Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s Legacy.\u201d Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>. February 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVonnegut and Labor.\u201d Jacobin<\/em>. September 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSocialism on the Small Screen: On \u2018Parks and Recreation.\u2019\u201d Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>. April 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fellowships:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Fellowship, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College. 2019\u20132020,
2021\u20132022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dalsimer Fellowship, Boston College Irish Studies Program. 2020\u20132021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matilda White Riley Fellowship, Bowdoin College. Summer 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grants and Awards:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presidential Award, Boston College. 2015\u20132020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Travel Grant, Modern Language Association. Spring 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College. Spring 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark of Distinction, Doctoral Qualifying Exams, Boston College. Spring 2017 and Fall 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Travel Grant, Modernist Studies Association. Fall 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Travel Grant, American Comparative Literature Association. Spring 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Student Association Conference and Research Funding Grant, Boston College. Spring 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Graduate Student Proposal, Literary London Conference. Summer 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MA Scholarship, University of Chicago. 2011\u20132012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Participation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited Talks:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Severed Ear: Kristevan Abjection in Blue Velvet<\/em>.\u201d Graduate Symposium on Kristeva at the Harvard University
Mahindra Humanities Center. Cambridge, MA. February 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papers Presented:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFlirting with Hegel: The Aesthetics of Marx\u2019s Fetish.\u201d Marxist Literary Group Institute for Culture and Society.
Online. Upcoming June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Simplest and Most Hegelian Manner Possible: Adorno\u2019s Proustian Dialectic.\u201d American Comparative Literature
Association Annual Meeting. Online. April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPolitical Ecology and Postindividualist Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf\u2019s To the Lighthouse<\/em>.\u201d Modern Language
Association Annual Convention. Seattle, WA. January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Work of Art in the Age of Its Supersensual and Suprasensible Fetishization.\u201d Modernist Studies Association
Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada. October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAdornian Theory: The Dialectical Mediation of Literature and Philosophy.\u201d Modernist Studies Association Annual
Conference. Toronto, Canada. October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLate Modernist Lacan: Beckett\u2019s Narrative Drive.\u201d LACK III: Psychoanalysis & Separation. Worcester, MA. May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStyle, Reification, and the Nightmare of History in Ulysses<\/em>.\u201d American Conference for Irish Studies. Boston, MA.
March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe silence of la gr\u00e8ve<\/em>: Divine Poetic Violence and the Form of the General Strike.\u201d American Comparative
Literature Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFragments Minus Ruins: The Waste Land<\/em> as Materialist Historiography.\u201d Modernist Studies Association Annual
Conference. Columbus, OH. November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImages, Not Stories: Montage as the Form of History.\u201d Modernist Studies Association Conference Annual
Conference. Columbus, OH. November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Aesthetic Death Drive of Modernism and Its Politics.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association Annual
Convention. Pittsburgh, PA. April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe \u2018last cess-pool in the universe\u2019: History as Hell in Ezra Pound\u2019s The Cantos<\/em>.\u201d Northeast Modern Language
Association Annual Convention. Pittsburgh, PA. April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Sublime Abject of Ideology: Revolting Intimacy and the Social Order in Blue Velvet<\/em>.\u201d The Kristeva Circle
Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. October 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Dialectic of Dreaming and Awakening in Marxism and Psychoanalysis.\u201d LACK II: Psychoanalysis and Politics
Now. Colorado Springs, CO. October 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn Apocalypse of Meaning: Language, Trauma, and Geography in the Londons of Woolf and Eliot.\u201d Literary London
Conference. London, UK. July 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnthropocene Ontology, Agency, and History in the Literary Ecosystem of For Whom the Bell<\/em> Tolls<\/em>.\u201d American
Literature Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Gospel from Outer Space: The Messianic Political Theology of Kurt Vonnegut,\u201d American Literature Association
Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. May 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Organization:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seminar Organizer, \u201cThe Knowledge of Art.\u201d American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Online.
April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel Organizer, \u201cHow Red Is Modernism?\u201d Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada.
October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading Group Organizer, \u201cWhat Is to Be Done with Non-Identity?\u201d Marxist Literary Group Institute for Culture and
Society. Chicago, IL. June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seminar Organizer, \u201cMarxism and Form, Revisited.\u201d American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting.
Washington, D.C. March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session Organizer, \u201cThe Spatial Language of Literature: Sovereign Space and the Borders of Capital.\u201d Northeast
Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Pittsburgh, PA. April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Organizer, \u201cGlobal Encounters.\u201d Boston College English Department Graduate Student Colloquium.
Keynote Speaker: Rebekah Mitsein. November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Organizer. \u201cLiterary Environments.\u201d Boston College English Department Graduate Student Colloquium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Howard. April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Organizer, \u201cTheory After Theory.\u201d Boston College English Department Gradate Student Colloquium.
Keynote Speaker: Frances Restuccia. November 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Positions:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Fellow, Boston College. 2017\u20132019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Assistant, British Literature II, Boston College. Spring 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Courses Taught:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elective: \u201cEpic Modernism.\u201d Boston College. Fall 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literature Core: \u201cLiterature, History, Politics.\u201d Boston College. Spring 2018\/2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First-Year Writing Seminar: \u201cWriting as a Critical Practice.\u201d Boston College. Fall 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Activity and Service<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director, Boston College English Department Graduate Student Colloquium, 2016\u20132019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President, Boston College English Department Graduate Student Association. 2017\u20132018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Director, Boston College English Graduate Student Colloquium. 2015\u20132016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Affiliations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Comparative Literature Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Conference for Irish Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marxist Literary Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern Language Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modernist Studies Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northeast Modern Language Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Lehman, Associate Professor of English
Boston College
Stokes Hall S411
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
617-552-3736
robert.lehman@bc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frances Restuccia, Professor of English
Boston College
Stokes Hall S379
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 
617-552-8277
restucci@bc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Ohi, Professor of English
Boston College
Stokes Hall S377
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
617-552-3733
ohi@bc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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