CURRICULUM VITAE

Paul A. Bové
1354 Royal Oak Drive
Wexford, PA 15090
(724) - 935 - 6992 - home
(412) - 624 - 6523 - office
bove@pitt.edu

PRESENT POSITION: Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh,

January 1, 2005—present)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh (1984 – 2004)
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia
University (1975 - 1979)
CONCURRENT POSITIONS:
Editor, boundary 2, an international journal of literature
and culture (appointed 1989);
Published three times each year by Duke University Press;
annual volume published in Chinese translation, the
People's Literature Publishing House, starting with volume
27;
selected by the MLA to be archived in the Mellon
Foundation's "JSTOR" system of electronic retrieval of
historically important journals;
selected for the “Literature” index produced by the
European Research Index for the Humanities (ERIH),
directed by the European Science Foundation (ESF);
bibliographed in SCOPUS (Elsevier)
General Editor, boundary 2 books, an imprint of books for Duke
University Press (1993 - 2003);
Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Spring 2006;
Appointed as ‘Examiner,’ the Department of English, the
University of Hong Kong, 2002 – 2005.
Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature, Beijing
Language and Culture University (appointed July 2000);
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Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and Communications, University of

Pittsburgh (1994 - 1999);
Fellow, Center for West European Studies, University of
Pittsburgh, (1990 - present);
Core Faculty Affiliate, Global Studies Program, University of
Pittsburgh, (2002 – present)
Appointed Research Associate of the Unit for Cross Cultural
Studies at the Centre for International Political Studies, Pretoria
SA (March, 2000);
Member of Board of Directors, Institute of Postmodern Studies,
University of Beijing (1994 - 1999);
Fellow, Institute for Cultural Studies, Universitat de València
(Spain) (1996 - present);
Associate Editor, boundary 2, 1976 - 1989;
EDUCATION:
1970 - 75: Ph. D., SUNY at Binghamton (awarded 1976)
Dissertation: "A `New Literary History' of Modern American
Poetry: History and Deconstruction in the Works of Whitman,
Stevens, and Olson"
Director: William V. Spanos
1966 - 70 A. B. (Honors), (magna cum laude), St. Joseph's
College, Philadelphia, PA
HONORS:
Elected a Member of the International Association of University
Professors of English, March 6, 2008.
Judge for the Margaret Church Award for the best essay in
Modern Fiction Studies.
Elected to the Executive Committee of the Literary Criticism
Division of the MLA, 2000;
Appointed to the PMLA Advisory Committee, 2001 – 2004;
Arts & Sciences (University of Pittsburgh) Faculty Research and
Scholarship Program award (with Ronald Judy), 2000 – 2001;
2001 - 2002; to fund research and conference on W. E. B. Dubois
and Henry Adams;
Nominated for a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, January 2000 (Possible
acceptance delayed.);
Invited to become Neustadt Professor of Comparative Literature,
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Director of the Neustadt Prize in Literature and of World

Literature Today (1999; refused);
Invited to become Visiting Citizens' Chair Professor, the University
of Hawaii (1993 - 95) (refused);
Third-Term Faculty Research Award, University of Pittsburgh,
1984;
NEH Summer Fellow, 1986;
Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1979 – 80.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books, Editions, and Parts of Books:
Poetry Against Torture: Criticism, History, and the Human.
University of Hong Kong Press, 2008.
Henry Adams’s America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
under contract.
Selected Essays. Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Press, forthcoming in translation; series edited by Wang
Fengzhen, member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Co-editor with Wang Fengzhen of an annual Chinese volume of
boundary 2, published by the People's Literature Publishing
House.
Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power,
ed. with Introduction. Raleigh-Durham: Duke University Press,
2000.
Chinese translation, the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences Press, 2003.
Arabic translation from Sutuor Publishing House, London
and Cairo, Fall 2001.
My essay from this volume has also appeared in Arabic
translation on the Al Jazeera web-site, October, 2001.
The University in an Age of Globality, ed. with Introduction.
Special Issue of boundary 2 vol. 27, no. 1 (Spring 2000).
In the Wake of Theory. Wesleyan University Press, 1992.
In Spanish translation as En la Estela de la Teoría,
translated by Antonio Méndez Rubio. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra,
1996.
Mastering Discourse: The Politics of Intellectual Culture. Duke
University Press, 1992.
Intellectuals in Power: A Genealogy of Critical Humanism. New
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York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

Choice "Outstanding Academic Book, 1986 - 87."
Paperback edition, Columbia University Press, King's Crown
Book, 1988.
Chinese translation, Jiangsu People’s Press, 2006, with a
new introduction. [Special series on ‘Intellectuals.’]
“Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power,” reprinted in
Edward Said, Vol.1 ed. Patrick Williams. Sage Publications, 2001.
Destructive Poetics: Heidegger and Modern American Poetry.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
Co-ed. with Silvestra Marienello, Gendered Agents: Women and
Institutional Knowledge, a boundary 2 book, with
“Introduction,” by Silvestra Marienello. Duke University Press,
1998.
Ed. Early Postmodernism, a boundary 2 book, with Introduction,
"Literary Postmodernism," pp. 1 - 16. Duke University Press,
September 1995.
ed. with William V. Spanos and Daniel T. O'Hara, The Question of
Textuality: Strategies of Reading in Contemporary American
Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982;
"Introduction," pp. 1 - 10. Reprint of boundary 2 (Fall 1979).
The End of Thinking (working papers). Eutopías, 2a época, Centro
de Semiótica y Teoría del espectáculo, Universitat de València,
1994.
“The Challenge of Understanding America in a Changing World,”
in American Exceptionalism and the Security State, ed. & intro.,
Donald E. Pease, Jr. Duke University Press, forthcoming.
German translation in Amerika denken, Argument:
Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften vol. 45, nos.
4/5 (2003): 511 – 21.
“Henry Adams and the ‘American System,’” forthcoming in Hindi
as "Henry Adams O Markini Byabosthya," Abobhash volume 3, no.
2: July-September 2003.
“Henry Adams and the Need to Know,” Henry Adams And The
Need To Know (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society Studies
in American History and Culture, No. 8, 2005).

“Can we Judge the Humanities by their Future As a Course of

Study?”, afterword to Globalization and the Humanities: Field
Imaginaries, Virtual Worlds, and Emergent Sensibilities, ed. &
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intro. David Leiwei Li. (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong

Press, 2003, pp. 273 – 84.
“New Knowledge Paradigms in Area Studies,” for Learning Places:
Asian Studies, Area Studies, Conventional Disciplines, Cultural
Studies, Identity Politics, Multiculturalism, eds. Harry
Harratoonian and Masao Miyoshi. Duke University Press, 2002.
• “Political Acoustics: A Note on the Left Conservatism Debate
Political Acoustics: A Note on the Left Conservatism Debate,”
edited and introduced, boundary 2 1999 Fall; 26(3): 1-61.
“Recycler la ‘culture,’ in Recyclages, Économies de l’appropriation
culturelle (Montreal: Les Éditions Balzac, 1996), pp. 65 - 94.
"Anarchy and Perfection: Henry Adams's Anti-American
Discourse," in America's Modernism: Revaluing the Canon, Essays
in Honor of Joseph N. Riddel, eds. Joseph G. Kronick and Kathryne
V. Lindberg. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1996, pp.39 - 53.
“Afterword: ‘Global/Local’ Memory and Thought,” Rob Wilson and
Arif Dirlik, eds., Global/Local, Culture and Locality in the Pacific
Rim (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996), pp. 372 - 86.
Foreword to Marcia Landy's, Beyond Common Sense
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), pp. i - xvii.
“Afterword,” Critical Zone 1: A Forum of Chinese and Western
Knowledge/Preview, Tong, Q. S. (ed. and introd.). Hong Kong:
Hong Kong UP; 2004. 232 pp.
"The Foucault Phenomenon: The Problematic of Style,"
introduction to Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1988, pp. i - xxxix. Choice
"Outstanding Academic Book, 1988."
Ed., Revising the Anglo-American Tradition. boundary 2, Part 1,
(Winter 1978); Part 2 (Spring 1979); "Introduction: Friedrich
Nietzsche and the Problems of Revisionism, `Latecomers live truly
an ironical existence,'" 1 - 15.
"Paul de Man: Some Notes on the Critic's Search for Authority
Against Consensus," The Ends of Theory, eds. Jerry Herron et al.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994, pp. 7 - 22; reissued
and expanded in 1996, essay reprinted pp. 36 - 48.
"Notes towards the Politics of `American' Criticism," in Critical
Conditions ed. Michael Hays. University of Minnesota Press,
1993, pp. 1 - 19.
"Madness, Medicine, and the State," Rewriting the History of
Madness, eds. Irving Velody and Arthur Still (London: Routledge,
1992), pp. 51 - 64.
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"Helpless Longing, or, the Lesson of Silas Lapham," New

Approaches to William Dean Howells, ed. Donald E. Pease.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991: 29 - 47.
"Discourse," Critical Terms for Literary Study, ed. Frank
Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1990, pp. 50 - 65.
"The Rationality of Disciplines: The Abstract Understanding of
Stephen Toulmin," After Foucault, ed. Jonathan Arac. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988, pp. 42 - 70.
"The Function of the Literary Critic in a Postmodern World,"
Criticism Without Boundaries, ed. Joseph A. Buttigieg. South Bend:
Notre Dame University Press, 1987, pp. 23 - 50.
"The Ineluctability of Difference: Scientific Pluralism and the
Critical Intelligence," Postmodernism and Politics, ed. Jonathan
Arac. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp. 3 -
25.
Italian translation in Il Giornale della Filosofia Edizioni
Copernico di Mariola Weronika Gladysz
"Variations on Authority: Some Deconstructive Transformations of
the American New Criticism," The Yale Critics, eds. Jonathan Arac,
Wlad Godzich, and Wallace Martin. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 20; reprinted in Spurlin, William J.
And Michael Fischer, eds., The New Criticism and Literary Theory.
Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History, and Culture,
William E. Cain, general editor. New York: Garland Publishing,
Inc., 1995, pp. 161- 84.
"Mendacious Innocents, or, the Modern Genealogist as
Conscientious Intellectual: Nietzsche, Foucault, Said," Why
Nietzsche Now?, ed. Daniel T. O'Hara. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1985, pp. 359 - 88.
"The Penitentiary of Reflection: Søren Kierkegaard and Critical
Activity," in Kierkegaard and Literature, ed. Ronald Schleifer.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984, pp. 3 - 35.
"Beckett's Dreadful Postmodern: The Deconstruction of Form in
Molloy," Postmodern Studies in Fiction, ed. Leonard Orr. New
York.
"The Long Poem in the Twentieth Century," published in Italian
translation as "Il mondo e la terra di William Carlos Williams:
Patterson come `poema,'" trans. Isabella Spera. (Postmoderno E
Letteratura: Percorsi e visioni della critica in America), ed. Peter
Caravetta and Paolo Spedicato. Milan: Bompiani, 1984, pp. 161 -
82.
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Ed., "Supplement on Modern Irony," (boundary 2): 9 (Fall 1980): 1

- 125.
Essays and Review Articles:
“Louis Menand and the American System,” forthcoming in
German translation. Das Argument: Journal for Philosophy and
Social Sciences.
“Philology and Poetry: The Case against Descartes,” forthcoming
in Law and Literature.
“Continuing the Conversation,” Critical Inquiry, 2005 Winter; 31
(2): 399-405.
Forthcoming in German and Japanese translation.
“The Crisis of Editing,” ADE Bulletin 2002 Spring; 131: 34-40.
“History and Fiction: The Narrative Voices of Pynchon's Gravity's
Rainbow,” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 2004 Fall; 50 (3): 657-80.
"Das unausweichliche Imperium,” in: Das Argument (Berlin) 264,
48. Jahrgang, 2006, Heft 1, 47-58.
“Essaying the Form: Henry Adams and American Democracy,”
Annals of Scholarship vol. 17, no. 1&2, Spring 2006.
“American Universalism and Its Democracy,” Exporting
Democracy: Critical Interventions: A forum for social analysis, ed.
Josiah Bunting, III (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006.
“Henry Adams's America,” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of
American Literature, Culture, and Theory, 2002 Spring; 58 (1): 57-
76.
"Rights Discourse in the Era of US/China Trade," New Literary
History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation (NLH). 2002
Winter; 33 (1): 171-87; forthcoming in Chinese translation.
“The University,” boundary 2: an international journal of literature
and culture, 2000 Spring; 27 (1).
"Intellectuals in Power--Revisited," Annals of Scholarship, Fall,
2001.
“Afterword,” Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the
Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field. Ed. and introduced, Rey
Chow. Duke University Press, 2000.
“Chauvinism und Neoliberalismus: Fortschritt bei Richard Rorty,”
trans. Tilman Reitz; Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und
Sozialwissenschaftern, 41. Jahrgang Heft 2/3 (1999): 383 – 95.
“Chauvinism and Neo-Liberalism: American ‘Left’ Intellectuals,”
Theory & Event (an electronic Political Science journal published
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by The Johns Hopkins University Press), 25 ms. pp. fall 1998.

“Intellectual work in an age of Transition,” Yale Journal of
Criticism, 10, 2 (1997): 455 - 62.
“Policing Thought: On Learning how to Read Henry Adams,”
Critical Inquiry 23 (Summer 1997): 939 - 46.
“Should Cultural Studies Take Literature Seriously?” Critical
Quarterly, (UK) Spring (1997).
"Giving Thought to America: Intellect and The Education of Henry
Adams," Critical Inquiry 23 (Autumn 1996): 80 - 108.
With Lynn Emanuel and David Bartholomae, “On Poetry,
Language, and Teaching: A Conversation with Charles Bernstein,”
boundary 2: An international journal of literature and culture,
1996 Fall; 23 (3): 45-66.
"Abandoning Knowledge: Disciplines, Discourse and Dogma -
Henry Adams's Mont Saint Michel and Chartres," New Literary
History 25 (Summer 1994): 601 - 620.
A review of Seth Lehrer's Literary History and the Challenge of
Philology, Vol. 96, No. 4 (May, 1999), pp. 555-557.
"Hope and Reconciliation: A Review of Edward W. Said's Culture
and Imperialism," boundary 2 20 (Summer 1993): 266 - 82.
"An Interview with Edward W. Said" (with Joseph Buttigieg)
boundary 2 20 (Spring 1993): 1 – 25; reprinted in Edward Said,
Vol.1 ed. Patrick Williams. Sage Publications, 2001. Reprinted in
Viswanathan, Gauri (ed. and introd.); Said, Edward W. (preface);
Power, Politics and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said.
London, England: Bloomsbury; 2005.
"`The Problem of the Contemporary Intellectual,'" Surfaces, 25
pp., (December 1992; Vol 2, #2.
"Literary Criticism," Grolier Encyclopedia.
Zadankai Sekai, October, 1992, pp. 232 - 250 (in Japanese).
"Dante Among the Moderns," Rethinking Marxism, Spring 1991:
73 - 84.
"Paul de Man: Some Notes on the Critic's Search for Authority
Against Consensus," Criticism, Spring 1990, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, 149
- 161.
"The Love of Reading/The Work of Criticism: F. O. Matthiessen
and Lionel Trilling," Contemporary Literature 31 (Fall 1990): 373 -
82.
"Power and Freedom: Opposition and the Humanities," October
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53 (Summer 1990): 78 - 92.

with Daniel T. O'Hara, “Mask Plays: Theory, Cultural Studies, and
the Fascist Imagination,” boundary 2, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer,
1990), pp. 129-154.
“A Conversation with William V. Spanos,” boundary 2: an
international journal of literature and culture, 1990 Summer; 17
(2): 1-39.
"Theory as Practice," Works and Days 16 (Fall 1990): 11 - 28.
Review of Daniel O'Hara's Romance of Interpretation, Dalhousie
Review, 1988.
"Agriculture and Academe: America's Southern Question," The
Legacy of Antonio Gramsci, ed. Joseph Buttigieg, A Special Issue
of boundary 2, 14 (Spring 1986), 169 - 96.
"Closing Up the Ranks: Xerxes' Hordes Are at the Pass,"
Contemporary Literature 26 (Spring 1985): 91 - 106.
"The Metaphysics of Textuality: Nietzsche's Use and Abuse of
History and Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,"
After Theory, a special issue of The Dalhousie Review 64
(Summer 1984): 401 - 22.
Review essay on David Halliburton's Poetic Thinking, SubStance
13 (1984): 136 - 39.
"R. P. Blackmur and the Job of the Critic: Turning from the
American New Criticism," Criticism 25 (1984): 359 - 80.
Review essay on John Haffenden's The Life of John Berryman,
Contemporary Literature 25 (1984): 103 - 09.
"The Ineluctability of Difference: Critical Intelligence as Scientific
Pluralism," boundary 2 11 (1983): 155 – 75, translated into
Italian in Il Giornale della Filosofia, (Edizioni Copernico di Mariola
Weronika Gladysz), forthcoming, 2002.
"Celebrity and Betrayal: Postmodern Intellectuals and the Media,"
Minnesota Review (Fall 1983): 72 - 91.
"Intellectuals at War: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power,"
SubStance 11 no 4 & 12 no 1 (1983): 36 - 56.
"Restoring Humanism," Contemporary Literature 24 (1983): 379 -
87.
"Modern Irony and the Ironic Imagination," Contemporary
Literature 23 (1982) 244 - 53.
"Mendacious Innocents, or, the Modern Genealogist as
Conscientious Intellectual," boundary 2 9 no 3 & 10 no 1 (1981):
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359 - 88.
"The End of Humanism: Michel Foucault and the Power of
Disciplines," On Foucault, Humanities in Society 3 (1980): 23 - 40.
"The Penitentiary of Reflection: Søren Kierkegaard's Critical
Activity," boundary 2 9 (1980): 233 - 58.
"The Image of the Creator in Beckett's Molloy," Philosophy and
Literature," 4 (1980): 47 - 65.
A review of Gerald Graff's Literature Against Itself, Criticism 22
(1980): 77 - 81.
"Literary History and Literary Interpretation: Paul de Man and the
Case for Textuality," Union Seminary Quarterly Review, special
issue on hermeneutics, ed. Cornel West: 36 (1979): 107 118.
"The World and Earth of William Carlos Williams: Paterson as a
`Long Poem,'" The Long Poem in the Twentieth Century, ed.
Joseph Riddel, a special issue of Genre 9 (1978): 575 - 96.
A review of C. K. Seung's Cultural Thematics, Thought (Fall 1977):
206 - 08.
"The Poetics of Coercion: An Interpretation of Literary
Competence," boundary 2 5 (1976): 263 - 84.
"Cleanth Brooks and Modern Irony: A Kierkegaardian Critique,"
boundary 2 4 (1976): 727 - 59.
Interviews:
"Paul Bove: Ekti Kothopokothon," Abobhash volume 3, no. 2: July
– September 2003.
"Voices from Other Lands," Tian Wei, Radio China International
English Service, August 1 - 4, 2000.
Books in Progress:
An as yet untitled second volume of my critical history of Henry
Adams.
“The Neoliberal Imagination,” preparing proposal for Harvard UP.
"The End of Thinking." This tentatively titled collection of essays
is in preparation for Duke Press.
"Spiritual Solitude," a book on Edmund Wilson, under contract
with University of Minnesota Press, American Culture Series.
A book on R. P. Blackmur is under contract with the University of
Wisconsin Press.
A book on culture and theory is under contract with Routledge.
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PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

July 2 and 3, 2009 (scheduled): Keynote Address to “Irish
Seminar,” Dublin Ireland, “Apocalypse and Utopia.”

April 2, 2009 (scheduled): Penn State University, American

Studies Institute, “The American Need for Henry Adams.”

April 3, 2009 (scheduled): Graduate Student Colloquium on

American Studies, Penn State University

March 13 – 14, 2009 (scheduled): hosting and speaking to an

invited symposium on the Future of the Secularism Debate,
University of Pittsburgh.

December 4, 2008: Respondent to James Livingston on William

James and Radical Empiricism, Columbia University Seminar in
Literary Theory, NY, NY.

November 22, 2008: “Henry Adams, History, and the Human,”

Dartmouth College, Hanover NH

November 3 – 4, 2008: Brown University, Colloquium on “the

Human.”

January 27, 2008: Presentation to University of Pittsburgh

Cultural Studies Reading Group of my book ms, “Poetry and
Torture.”

December 6, 2007: Made an invited three hour presentation on

the Vico sections of my new book, Poetry Against Torture, to the
University Seminar in Critical Theory, Columbia University, NY, NY
10027.

October 27, 2006: Discussant in closing session, African Novel

Conference, University of Pittsburgh.
October 25, 2006: Respondent to David Attwell, “On Coetzee’s
Estrangement,” African Novel Conference, University of
Pittsburgh,

October 26, 2006: Respondent to Mohammed Hassan, “On

Aboulela's, The Translator,” African Novel Conference, University
of Pittsburgh,

November 10, 2006: “Doing Critical Intellectual Work Today,”

Thinking and Working in the Critical Humanities, Center for
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African Studies

September 29, 2007: "Vico and Philological Criticism,"

OUTSOURCING PHILOSOPHY: WHO DOES THE WORK?
Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, Haverford College

September 28, 2007: “Criticism on Philosophy’s Claims to Truth,”

English Department Seminar, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

September 8, 2007: “The Security/Diversity Dilemma,”

“Workshop on Immigration and Integration in a
Transatlantic Perspective,” sponsored by Ford Institute for
Human Security, Ridgeway Center, University of Pittsburgh
February 21, 2007: Lecture to the Cultural Studies Colloquium,
University of California, Santa Cruz, “Poetry against Torture.”

December 28, 2006: Special Session of the Modern Language

Association National Convention, “William Empson and the Cause
of Close Reading,” Philadelphia.

June 23, 2007: “Louis Menand and the American System,”

“Futures of American Studies,” International Colloquium on
America in the World, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH.

November 9, 2006: Chair of and Discussant in Seminar, “The

Quest for Interdisciplinary Method in the Humanities …Folly or
Fruit,” Thinking and Working in the Critical Humanities Center for
African Studies, University of Cape Town.

“The Ways from God to Man: John Milton's Road to Secular

Perfection,” Inaugural Lecture as Distinguished Professor of
English, November 22, 2005.

September 23, 2005: “The Paradox of Freedom: Growing from

God,” English Department Seminar, Hong Kong University.

August 9, 2005: “The Paradox of Freedom: Growing from God,”

Dartmouth College.

August 10, 2005: "Mind against Faith: Driving the Sacred Back to
Earth," MALS Summer Seminar, Dartmouth College.

May 29, 2005 – “Henry Adams and Europe,” American Literature

Association National Conference, Boston, Copley Place Marriott
Hotel
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“The Ineluctability of American Empire,” “Forms of Empire,”

Conference, University of Notre Dame, May 3, 2005.

Closing Panel Discussion on Empire, Conference, University of

Notre Dame, May 3, 2005.

“American Universalism and its Democracy,” Jackson

Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, West Virginia University,
November 11, 2004.

“Edward W. Said and Criticism’s Engagement with Life and Art,”

In Homage to Edward W Said Université Paris 7 – Denis-Diderot
(Jussieu), September 24, 2004.

“The American University and Neo-Conservatism: Paul Wolfowitz,”

NYU, Conference entitled, “Imminent Questions,” New York, April
30, 2004.

“Humanism and Democratic Criticism: Edward Said on America,”

lecture, invited by Columbia University Press to launch
publication of Said’s posthumous book, Humanism and
Democratic Criticism, Columbia University, Faculty House, New
York, April 27, 2004.

“American Universalism and Its Democracy,” invited lecture

prepared for Guggenheim Foundation Conference on “Exporting
Democracy,” Ascona, Switzerland, April 23 – 25, 2004.

“Censorship and the Disciplines,” Florida Atlantic Foundation,

April 17, 2005.

Seminar on Michel Foucault, English Department, Florida Atlantic

University, April 14, 2005.

"The Obsolescence of Freedom: Henry Adams's Dread Vision of

the US Future," lecture to The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts
and Letters, FAU, March 18, 2003

“Professional Standards: A Colloquium on Publishing Journals in

the Humanities,” The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and
Letters, FAU, March 18, 2003

Organized with The Center for Comparative Literature and

Society, a Conference: “The Stakes of Reading: Globalization and
Literary Study: a conference in association with boundary 2,”
March 6th, 2004, 301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, New
York.
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“Essaying the Form,” invited lecture, Temple University, Mellon

Lectures in the Humanities, March 3, 2004.

“Critical Poetics: American Resources for Theorizing America,”

invited lecture, Cultural Analysis Colloquium Series, University of
California, Santa Barbara, February 11, 2004.

Presiding Organizer, "Is Now the Time for Paul de Man?" Special
Session (Literary Criticism Division), MLA National Convention,
December 2003, San Diego, CA.

Invited speaker to "Theorizing the Profession" at the 2003 MLA

Convention in San Diego. Invited by the MLA Committee on the
Status of Graduate Students in the Profession, part of a Forum
entitled "Critical Theory Meets Academic Labor." December,
2003.

Reading in Honor of Edward W. Said, MLA National Conference,

San Diego (Manchester Grand Hyatt Ballroom), December 28,
2003.

Forum: “The Humanities and the Changing Role of Worldly

Engagement,” NCTU, Hsinchu (Taiwan) December 11, 2003.

“America's Method for Knowing the World: What Should We Know

About It,” Academica Sinica, Institute for the Humanities,
December 13, 2003.

“America in a New World,” Institute of Euro-American Studies,

Academica Sinica, December 15, 2003.

“What Does War Think,” invited lecture, Department of

Comparative Literature, University of Montreal, October 31, 2003.

Invited participant in a Roundtable on my essay “Can American

Studies be Area Studies,” (Miyoshi et al., eds. Learning Places,
Duke University Press, 2002), American Studies National
conference, October 16 – 19, 2003, Hartford, Ct.

NPR, Odyssey, on “The Life and Work of Edward Said,” October 1,

2003, 1 hour.

Interview, Chronicle of Higher Education on the career of Edward

Said, September 25, 2003.

“A Symposium on Globalism and the Humanities in Academia,”

Binghamton University, February 21 -22, 2003. “Teaching and
Editing,” colloquium for graduate students and faculty; “Can we
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Judge the Humanities by their Future As a Course of Study?”

Plenary lecture to symposium.

Presiding Organizer, “Why Aesthetics Now,” Special Session

(Literary Criticism Division), MLA Convention, December 29,
2002, New York, NY.

“The Challenge of Understanding America in a Changing World,”

Inauguration of the American Studies Network, CNRC, Université
de Montreal - October 7, 2002

“The Challenge of Understanding America in a Changing World,”

ConcateNations, A conference hosted by the Department of
French and Italian of the University of Pittsburgh, November 15,
2002, (by invitation of conference organizers).

“The Challenge of Understanding America in a Changing World,”

The Future of American Studies After the Cold War in Light of
9/11,” conference sponsored by the Master of Arts in Liberal
Studies, Dartmouth College, November 22, 2002.

“New Reasons for Reading Henry Adams,” Panel organized by the

Henry Adams Society at the American Literature Association
Meeting, Long Beach California, May 30—June 2, 2002;

Paper on Henry Adams, the American ‘Transnationalist,’ for

"Theories of American Culture" Conference, The John F. Kennedy
Institute For North American Studies (Free University, Berlin), May
9 – 11, 2002;

Colloquium on Postmodern Literary Theory, English Department,

University of Hong Kong, May 2, 2002;

“Henry Adams and the ‘American System,’” University of Hong

Kong, May 3, 2002;

Chair, Special Session MLA convention, New Orleans, December

28, 2001, sponsored by Division on Criticism and Theory;

“Teaching and Editing,” University of Notre Dame, Department of

English, November 29, 2001;

Colloquium with graduate students and faculty on graduate

education, Department of English, University of Notre Dame,
November 30, 2001;

“Curiosity in The Education of Henry Adams,” University of

Pittsburgh, lecture invited by the Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate
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Admissions, November 16, 2001;

"Curiosity: What Motivates the Polymathic Adams?" invited

lecture, Massachusetts Historical Society, May 19, 2001; filmed
and broadcast by C-Span as Forum: Henry Adams and the Life of
the Mind, part of a conference entitled “Henry Adams and the
Need to Know.” Part of C-Span’s American Author Series.

"Henry Adams and American Modernity," invited lecture, English

Department, Penn State University, April 5, 2001;

"Academic Publishing: The Journal Form of Knowledge," Special

Session of the MLA Convention, Washington DC, December 28,
2000;

"Weltliteratur, the Globe, and the End of History," Nanovic Center

for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, December 9,
2000;

"Rights Discourse in the Era of US/China Trade," presentation to

the Plenary Sessions of the "International Conference on the
Future of Literary Theory: China and the World," Beijing, July 21,
2000;

"Can American Studies be Area Studies?” Invited talk at

Dartmouth College, July 5, 2000;

Invited Colloquium on American Studies, MAPS Program,

Dartmouth College, July 6, 2000;

"Henry Adams's America," invited lecture, English Department,

Northwestern University, May 4, 2000;

A colloquium on “Democratic Commitment and Literary

Studies/The University in an Age of Globality," The John F.
Kennedy Institute For North American Studies (Free University,
Berlin) May 18, 1999;

“Henry Adams’s America,” Graduiertenkolleg, "Problems Of

Democracy In The US" at The John F. Kennedy Institute For North
American Studies (Free University, Berlin) May 17, 1999;

Chair, “Section: Aesthetics,” International InkriT Conference,

“Rethinking Progress,” Jagdschloss Glienicke (Berlin), May 13,
1999;

“Chauvinism and Neoliberalism: American ‘Left’ Intellectuals

Today,” Plenum: Situations; International InkriT Conference,
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“Rethinking Progress,” Jagdschloss Glienicke (Berlin), May 13,

1999

Lecture to Cultural Studies Common Seminar on “The

Doctrinaire,” University of Pittsburgh, April 6, 1999;

A seminar on Charles Olson and The Maximus Poems, Poetry

Writing Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, April 1, 1999.

“Priests and Financiers: A Prologue,” Emory University, October 1,

1998; University of Pittsburgh, “Critical Exchange,” March 23,
1999;

“Teaching Literature in the Age of Global English: A Colloquium”

Emory University, October 2, 1998;

"The End of Thinking," Emory University, Department of English,

March 31, 1998;
Presentation to Director of Bourghiba Institute on English Studies
in Global Economy;
“Globalization and the Interregnum,” The Center for Maghrebian
Studies, Tunis, March 4, 1998;
Colloquium for Professors of English, University of Tunis,
"Teaching English for Special Purposes and the Economy of
Globalism," March 5, 1998
"Comparative Literature and Globalism," New York University,
February 19, 1998;
"Sexuality and Fiction: The Novels of Henry Adams," Macalester
College, February 16, 1998
Colloquium on "The German Predicament," Western European
Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, February 11, 1998;
"Marxism and the Global Intellectual," Common Seminar,
University of Pittsburgh Cultural Studies Program, February 4,
1998
“Left Conservatives,” Center for Cultural Studies, University of
California at Santa Cruz, January 31, 1998.
Colloquium for Graduate Students on current directions of critical
study in English, Literature Program, University of California at
Santa Cruz, January 30, 1998;
“Chauvinism and Neo-Liberalism: American ‘Left’ Intellectuals,”
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University,
January 29, 1998. University of Pittsburgh, Cultural Studies
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Common Seminar, April 6, 1999;

“Gramsci and the current State of the Humanities in the US,”
Annual Meeting of the International Gramsci Society, Istituto
Filosofici, University of Naples, Naples, Italy October 17, 1997;
“Problems of Emergence in Henry Adams’s History of the United
States.” The Futures of American Studies: an International
Conference, Dartmouth College, August 11, 1997;
"History and Fiction: the Narrative Voices of Thomas Pynchon's
Gravity's Rainbow," Universität Zurich, May 28, 1997;
“American and Pacific Literature,” MELUS (Multi Ethnic Literatures
of the United States) National Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, April
23, 1997;
Consultant to Directors of Certificate Program in “International
and Pacific Rim Cultural Studies,” East/West Center, Honolulu,
Hawaii, April 22, 1997;
“Intellectual Work in an Age of Transition: Against Populism,”
Cultural Studies Common Seminar, April 10, 1997;
“New Knowledge Paradigms in Area Studies,” Conference on
“East Asian Modernity in Area Studies,” Northwestern University,
March 17 - 18, 1996;
“Intellectual work in an age of transition,” Council of Editors of
Learned Journals, MLA, December 28, 1996;
“Priest to Financier: the Emblem of Knowledge in Nietzsche, Marx,
and Adams,” Seminar in Contemporaneity, University of Montreal,
November 8, 1996;
“Intelligence and Criticism: Thinking the Globe,” University of
California at Santa Cruz, October 28, 1996;
“The Role of Publishing in Knowledge Production,” University of
California, San Diego, Literature Department, October 25, 1996;
“Principles and Circumstance,” After Orientalism, Columbia
University, October 19, 1996. National U, San Diego, October 24,
1996;
"Giving Thought to America," Université de Genève, May 30,
1996. Colloquium with students and faculty (Faculté des lettres
and European Studies) May 31, 1996;
"Words and History: Erich Auerbach and the Case for Philology,"
Gronningen, Holland. May, 28, 1996. Cultural Studies Common
Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, March 28 1996;
"Some Thoughts on the Current Shape of Knowledge-Production,"
presented to "Workshop in Disciplines, Area Studies, Cultural
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Studies, Gender/Ethnic Studies," University of California, San

Diego, May 4, 1996;
"The End of 'Postmodernism,'" March 27, 1996. Lebanon Valley
Conference on the Postmodern, Lebanon Valley College;
Respondent, "Rhetoric Science and Authority," April 13, 1996;
conference on "Identities and Knowledge," University of
Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University;
"The End of Thinking: Intellectual Failure in American Foreign
Policy and Academic Cultural Study," Universidad Internacional
Menéndez Pelayo, Palau de Pineda, Valencia, Spain, July 19, 1994;
Seminar, El estatuto político de la teoría, Universidad
Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Palau de Pineda, Valencia, Spain,
July 18 - 22, 1994;
"Can we really talk about the Subject when there's no such thing
as Culture?" The University Honors Program's Visiting Lecture
Series, Portland State University, April 4, 1994;
"Writing History in Chaos: Henry Adams and the Future of
Criticism," MLA, Toronto, December 29, 1993;
"Abandoning Knowledge," Diskursparadigma Form, November 15,
1993, Kunsthall, Vienna. Commonwealth Center for Cultural
Studies, University of Virginia, September 23, 1993. Dartmouth
College, July 8, 1994;
Colloquium on Theory and Form, Wittgenstein House, November
12 - 13, 1993, Vienna;
Commonwealth Center for Cultural Studies, University of Virginia,
July 9, 1994, Seminar in Interdisciplinary Directions in the Study
of Knowledge;
"Hollow Nations, Hollow States," Re-figuring U.S. Nationalisms,
Dartmouth College, June 25, 1993;
"Salman Rushdie and the Concept of Literature," Troisième
Cycle, Université de Lausanne, May, 1993.
"Critical Theorists: Witnessing the Discussion of Northeners on
Global/Local Issues," University of California, San Diego, February
23, 1993;
Chair, "Prolegomena to a New Political Discourse," panel
sponsored by boundary 2, at conference, "Crises and
Possibilities: Marxism in the New World Order," Association for
Economic and Social Analysis, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, November 14, 1992;
"'The Problem of the Contemporary Intellectual," Graduate
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Center of the City University of New York, October 29, 1992;

"Anarchy and Perfection," Université de Genève, June 16, 1992;
"Paul de Man, an American Critic on `Literature,'" Université de
Genève, June 18, 1992;
"The Party After Gramsci," Socialist Scholars' Conference, NYC,
April 25, 1992;
"The Humanities in Higher Education During the Next Decade,"
Academic Symposia Leading to the Installation of J. Dennis
O'Connor, February 27, 1992;
"The Intellectual as a Contemporary Phenomenon," Repenser de
culture, Université de Montreal, April 4, 1992; Graduate Center of
the City University of New York, October 29, 1992;
"Nations, Struggles, and Dreams" Ayama Geiku University, Tokyo,
August, 1991;
Zadankai (Roundtable, with Fredric Jameson; Tetsuo Najita,
(President of the American Association of Asian Studies); Harry
Harratoonian; Masao Miyoshi; and Naoki Sakai), Sekai, Tokyo,
August, 1991;
"The Humanism of Historicism," paper presented to a workshop
on "The Construction of Literature," University of California, San
Diego, June 22, 1991;
"On Theory and Literary Study," 1991 Summer Seminar,
"Interrelated Cultural and Textual Reading," Lilly Endowment
Notre Dame University, June 17, 1991;
"Postmodernism after Comparative Literature," IAPL, Univeristé
de Montreal, May 18, 1991;
"Criticism After Theory," English Department, Dartmouth College,
April 19, 1991;
"In the Wake of Theory," paper delivered to Critical Studies
Program, University of Manitoba, March 7, 1991;
"Directions for Criticism," Colloquium given to faculty of English
Department and Critical Studies Program, University of Manitoba,
March 8, 1991;
"Willful Love in the Tradition of Henry Adams," English
Department, University of North Carolina, December 3, 1990;
"The Post of Postmodernism," Department of English, University
of Hawaii, 11/28/90;
"`History' and Criticism," Cinema and History: East and West;
Institute of Culture and Communication, East-West Center,
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Honolulu, 11/25/90;
Attended colloquium held by faculty and graduate students on
two of my then-recent essays, UC San Diego, 10/25/90;
"Notes Towards a Politics of `American' Criticism," Dartmouth
College, July 27, 1990;
Participant in a boundary 2 Colloquium on the New Historicism
with School of Criticism and Theory, July 26, 1990;
"Style and the Police: Foucault and American Academics,"
University of California, Irvine, IAPL Annual Meeting, April 26 28,
1990;
"The Social Responsibility of the American Literary Critic," Center
for the Study of American Culture, Columbia University,
Zuckerman Lecture, April 6, 1990;
"Normalization and Liberty: Power and the Humanities," (The
Humanities as Social Technology: the Impact of the Humanities in
the Social Sphere), Ohio State University, Tenth Symposium on
the Humanities, October 8, 1989; and at the Wolfe Institute for
the Humanities, CUNY, December 8, 1989;
"What Was Foucault's Freud," Freud Lecture Series, Temple
University, November 29, 1989;
"Technologies of Power Relations," English Department, Temple
University, November 30, 1989; Detroit Institute of Arts/Wayne
State University, March 16, 1990;
"Paul de Man, Critic of Pathos," Dartmouth College, May 26, 1989;
"Michel Foucault and the `Style' of Knowledge," University of
Minnesota, April 21, 1989;
"Eccentricities and Commonplaces: with R.P. Blackmur towards a
Defense of Poetry," CUNY Graduate Center, December 21, 1988;
"Oppositional Critics and Institutions," MMLA, St. Louis, November
4, 1988;
"Edmund Wilson and the Spirit of Solitude," Center for Twentieth
Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, September
16, 1988;
"Theory as Practice: Towards a Critical Pedagogy," IUP, July 22,
1988; also a workshop on critical theory for summer institute
faculty;
"Intellectual Arrogance and Scholarly Carelessness, or, Why One
Can't Read Alan Bloom," Dartmouth College, May 28, 1988;
"Gramsci, Dante, and the Moderns," IAPL, Notre Dame University,
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April 22, 1988;

"Reclaiming Criticism," Emory University, March 28, 1988;
"The Foucault Phenomenon," Washington College, October 29,
1987; SUNY at Binghamton, December 2, 1987;
Respondent at conference on "History/Criticism," Cornell
University, April, 1987;
"The Function of the Literary Critic in the Postmodern World,"
SUNY at Binghamton, September 30, 1986;
Respondent, GRIP Conference, Carnegie-Mellon University, April
18, 1986;
Colloquium on "cultural criticism," Vanderbilt University, February
3, 1986;
"Vico in Auerbach," LSU, December 11, 1985;
Discussant in Study Group in Literary Theory, Dartmouth College,
October 30, 1985;
"Reclaiming Criticism," Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan
University, October 28, 1985; colloquium on the "Critical
Intellectual," Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University,
October 29, 1985;
"The Adamic Prototype," paper presented as part of a panel on
the "Intellectual," University of Illinois, Chicago, October 12, 1985;
Discussion leader, 19th century American literature division,
NEMLA, Philadelphia, March 27, 1984;
"Critical Humanism Reconsidered," University of Minnesota,
October, 1984;
Ward Phillips Lecture, "Auerbach and Vico: Against Critical
Humanism," Notre Dame University, April 23, 1984;
"The Uses of Modernity: Auerbach and Foucault," Cornell
University, April 6, 1984;
Colloquium on "The Place of Theory in an English Department,"
Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
February 7, 1984;
"Erich Auerbach's `Philology and Weltliteratur': Humanist in
Conflict," Program in Comparative Literature, University of Iowa,
February 1, 1984; Department of English, University of Houston,
February 20, 1984;
"Critics of Power," VPI & SU, November 7, 1983;
"The Rationality of Disciplines: the Abstract Understanding of
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Stephen Toulmin," Indiana University, September 29, 1983;

Participant in inaugural meeting of GRIP, sponsored by the
Society for Critical Exchange, Miami University, Ohio May 16 18,
1983;
"Critical Interest/Disciplinary Authority," NEMLA, April 15, 1983;
"Sublime Humanism: Comparative Literature and the Case of
Erich Auerbach," Interuniversity Center for Postgraduate Study,
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, June 6, 1983;
"Practical Criticism as Literary Discipline," in session entitled
"National Literatures and their Pedagogical Traditions,"
International Comparative Literature Association Biennial
Meeting, NYU, August 23, 1982;
"Modern Criticism and Social Philosophy," Center for Twentieth
Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 8,
1982;
"Intellectuals at War: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power,"
symposium on "Hermeneutics and Semiotics," Dartmouth
College, August 22, 1982; SUNY at Binghamton, Departments of
History and Comparative Literature, November 16, 1982;
Workshop (co-leader with Jonathan Arac) of four two-hour
seminars on the topic of "Intellectuals and the Disciplines," at a
conference entitled "Knowledge, Power, History," University of
Southern California, October 29 - 31, 1981;
"Mendacious Innocents, or, the Modern Genealogist as
Conscientious Intellectual," Oregon State University, December 5,
1980; University of Notre Dame, April 6, 1981;
"A Free, Varied, and Unwasteful Life: I. A. Richards' Speculative
Instruments," IAPL, SUNY at Binghamton, May 11, 1979; Temple
University, October 15, 1979; Union Theological Seminary,
November 28, 1979; William and Mary, March 24, 1980; Oregon
State University, December 8, 1980;
"Approaching History Concretely: Deconstruction and the
American New Criticism," International Conference on Semiotics
and Hermeneutics, York University Canada), November 22 - 24,
1978; Dartmouth College, February 12, 1980;
"The Metaphysics of Textuality: Nietzsche's Use and Abuse of
History and Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, SUNY
at Binghamton, November 9, 1978;
"R. P. Blackmur and the Job of the Critic: Turning from the
American New Criticism," Columbia University Seminar in Literary
Theory, Edward W. Said Chairman, April 2, 1978; Princeton
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University, October 11, 1978; the University of Pittsburgh, January

12, 1979;
"The Victories of Minimal Art: Sam Beckett and the Fiction of
Failure," Julliard School, July 15, 1977;
"The Nostalgia of `Literary Middles,'" response to Charles Altieri,
SUNY Symposium on Contemporary Criticism, March, 1976;
I presented papers on modern literature and criticism at the MLA
convention each year from 1975 to 1985. I also chaired several
times the "Defining Modernism" Special Session. I have been an
invited speaker in Division Meetings, Forums, Division sponsored
sessions, and Special Sessions. I spoke most recently at the MLA
in Toronto, December, 1993;
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
University of Pittsburgh
Undergraduate Courses (a partial list):
2007 – 2009: University Honors College, Great Books
Seminar
Junior Seminar: American Literature—Cold War and Writing
of the 1950s
Senior Seminar: Visions of America
World Literature in English
Senior Seminar: American Literature of the 1890s
Lecture course on "Global English"
Lecture course in Anglo-American Modernism
Contemporary Literature: junior/senior course on varying
topics of literature and culture (offered regularly with
varying topics).
Critical Reading: sophomore course for beginning majors
that introduces students to problems of reading and
methods of studying literature and culture.
Various undergraduate courses in Modern and postmodern
literature at all levels from freshmen to senior seminars;
readings drawn from American and European as well as
"emergent literatures." These courses are almost all
"comparative," "cultural," and "interdisciplinary."
Various undergraduate Honors college courses in
"Literature and Ideas;" sometimes a "great books" course;
sometimes a course on the range of new contemporary
literatures and cultures and approaches to them.
1995: Honors College Seminar in Literature and the City:
Virgil to Cyberspace and Singapore
Graduate Courses and Seminars:
Fall 2006:
Samuel Beckett
The History of Criticism Proseminar
Spring 2006, Modern Criticism
Fall 2005, Seminar in “The Intellectual”
Spring 2005, Cultural Studies Common Seminar, Theories of
Empire
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Fall 2004, History of Criticism, Proseminar

Foucault, Spring 2004
Contemporary Criticism, Fall 2003
American Literature I & II 2002 - 2003
Cultural Studies Common Seminar on Theories of Globalization
The American Long Poem
Edward W. Said: Speaking Truth to Power
Readings in Critical Theory: Sources of Contemporary Criticism
Michel Foucault, the Major Works
Loving the Past: Historical Writing in the 19th Century
Deleuze and Foucault
Imperialism and Modernity in America Literature—from 1885
Walter Benjamin: Reading Modernity
Criticism and Society
Contemporary Fascism and the Postmodern Novel
Postnational Intellectuals in Globalism
Euro-American Fascism and Fiction
The US Imperial Intellectual, 1890 - 1913
Historicism from Machiavalli to Godzich
Theory of Emergent Subjects
Gramsci and Spinoza
Introduction to Modern Critical Practice: required English
department seminar in modern and postmodern criticism and
theory; also required "first course" for certificate in "Cultural
Studies." Taught with various contents and forms over a decade.
Henry Adams, American literary intellectual: doctoral seminar in
Adams' major works and in theories of the culturally specific
intellectual.
Criticism and Culture, Reading Against the Grain: seminar, texts
from Arnold to Raymond Williams.
The Problem of the Subject, Baudelaire and Benjamin: seminar in
modernity.
Modern European Theories of Culture: seminar in major French
and German theories of cultural modernity from Weber to
Foucault.
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Intellectuals: doctoral seminar on the theory and self-

representation of Western literary intellectuals from Zola to
Irigaray and Kristeva; special emphasis on the "critical
intellectual" in terms of matters of gender, institutional function,
and discursive position.
Theory of Literature as "Social Production": reading and critique
of "production" as category of criticism.
Foucault: doctoral seminar on the major works, context, and
influence. Focus on matters of power, subjectivity, and sexuality.
Columbia University
Undergraduate courses:
Humanities: Great Books from Homer to Dostoevsky
Surveys of English and American Literature Norton Anthology
Contemporary Texts: seminar in postmodern poetry
Recent Poets: Modern and contemporary American poetry.
History of Criticism, Plato to Croce
Literary Texts and Critical Methods: Eliot to Derrida
Graduate courses:
Seminar in Postmodernism: readings in literary and critical texts
central to the postmodernism debate
James Joyce: graduate seminar
Contemporary Literary Theory: lectures on structuralism,
feminism, and poststructuralism.
Contemporary Texts: postwar American writers
Recent Poets: American poets from Pound and Williams to Olson
Studies in Comparative Literature: Proust, Joyce, Beckett
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
University of Pittsburgh:
Fall 2007: Chair, Committee to Promote John Beverley, Professor
of Spanish, to university faculty rank.
Fall 2006: Chair of Graduate Procedures Committee.
2006 to present: Search Committee for Professor in American
Literature
2000 – 2005: Departmental Budget and Planning Committee,
several terms.
2001—2003: Graduate Procedures Committee
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2002 – 2003: Ad-Hoc Committee to revise Core Courses for

English Graduate Program
2002 – 2003: Member of the Cultural Studies Executive
Committee
2000 – 2003: Faculty Advisory Board, The European Union
Center/Center for West European Studies
Organized, with Cultural Studies Program, a lecture to the
department by Professor Allen Chun, Academic Sinica, Taiwan,
November 7, 2002;
Spoke to French Department Conference, “ConcataNations,”
November 15, 2002;
Tenure Committee Sub-committee for Professor Stefan Wheelock;
Preliminary organization for an American Studies Program within
the University Center for International Studies, 2001—2002;
presentation to Dean of FAS, N. John Cooper, December 4, 2002;
met three times with incoming Mellon Professor of History, Donna
Gabaccia, to discuss American Studies;
Faculty Advisor to REES Undergraduate Research Symposium,
2002 – 2003;
Co-sponsor, with Cultural Studies, of lecture and colloquium by
Professor Wendy Steiner, University of Pennsylvania, on
contemporary American fiction, March 13 – 14, 2003;
Organized a Colloquium on Herman Melville and American
Literature with lectures by Donald E. Pease, Avalon Foundation
Professor of the Humanities, Dartmouth College; and William V.
Spanos, Distinguished Professor of English, Binghamton
University; two lectures and a colloquium for faculty and graduate
students, September 26 – 27, 2002.
Organized boundary 2 on America in an age of preemption;
invited Professor Anthony Bogues, Brown University, to address
the department on April 12, 2003, “C.L. R. James, Writing,
revolution and the practices of black radicalism”;
Organized boundary 2 conference (with History Department's
Atlantic Studies Program) on current developments in American
and Global Studies (10/21/200) [I have organized such a
conference, on different topics, each of the last ten years I have
been Editor of the journal. There has been an annual conference
at Pittsburgh in the Fall and normally a conference at another
hosting institution in the Spring];
Organized five public lectures for department in cooperation with
English, French, and Cultural Studies, 2000 - 2001;
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Organized five colloquia for graduate students with five visiting

distinguished scholars, 2000 – 2001 [I have organized such sets
of lectures and colloquia for several years.];
Chaired Promotion sub-committee of Full Professors for promotion
to rank, Spring, 2000 - February, 2001;
Member, Budget and Planning Committee, Department of English,
2000 - 2001.
Personnel committee—with Ronald Judy drew list of candidates
for tenured appointment in African-American Literature and
Culture; served on Personnel Committee Fall 2000;
Member of Arts and Sciences Taskforce to draft proposal to the
NEH for "America in the World: The Center for American Studies
at the University of Pittsburgh," Summer 1999 - Spring 2000;
Organized two public lectures for the Arts and Sciences in relation
to the NEH Taskforce, Spring, 2000;
Coordinated visits of two Center Directors to Pittsburgh to work
with NEH Taskforce, Spring, 2000;
Chair, Committee on the Honors English Major, Fall, 1999.
Organized a series of four lectures for the Department of English,
Fall, 1999;
Organizer for Center for West European Studies, of a conference
entitled “Europe, Culture, and Integration,” October 1998
Co-convenor, Faculty Seminar in Globalization 1999 -
Committee to Draft Honors English Major, 1996 - 99
Tenure and Promotion Committees, 1986 - 90; 1992 - 99
Co-organizer, English Department Seminar, 1995 - 96
Chair, Mellon Search Committee, 1995 - 96
Budget and Planning Committee, 1995 - 96; 1996 - 99; Fall 2000;
Member, Chancellor's Task Force on Intellectual Property (1994)
Chair, Search Committee for Andrew W. Mellon Professor of
English (1991 - 1992)
Executive Committee, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies
(1987 - 1992)
Dean’s Committee to design new ‘core’ curriculum for College of
Arts and Sciences; drafted humanities proposal
College Committee to implement new ‘core’ curriculum
Chair, Search Committee for Andrew W. Mellon Professor of
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English (1984 - 86; hired Gayatri C. Spivak); member of

committee (1982 - 83)
Departmental Personnel Committee (1980 - 82; 1987 - 1995)
Departmental Committees and Sub-Committees on tenure and
promotion (1982 - present)
Chair, Graduate Placement Committee (1987 - January, 1989)
Member of Provost’s task force to establish University Center for
the Humanities (1984 - 86); drafted report
Member of departmental literature curriculum committee (1984 -
86); drafted new doctoral program
Coordinator of "Colloquium on Critical Theory/Critical History,"
November 20 - 22, 1980.
Faculty Library Representative for English and Comparative
Literature (1981 - 85)
Service to the Profession:
Since I became Editor of boundary 2, I have helped organize
meetings of the journal’s collective in various cities from Tunis to
Santa Cruz to Hong Kong; these meetings have always in
coordination with a conference sponsored by the host institution
on various topics in which boundary 2 has international visibility.
The last such conference was at Hong Kong
Chair, Executive Committee of the Division for Literary Criticism
of the MLA, 2003- 2004;
Elected to the Executive Committee of the Division for Literary
Criticism of the Modern Language Association, 2000 - 2004.
Member of the Advisory Board, PMLA (Publications of the Modern
Language Association), 2001 – 2004;
Served as a judge on Council of Editor of Learned Journals prize
committee for 2002;
Editorial Advisor, Afterword: An Annual of Critical Knowledge.
Hong Kong University Press, 2002 - present
“Front Table” Submission for Seminary Coop in Chicago
Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Member of the Henry Adams Association
External Examiner, University of Hong Kong
Presiding, Literary Criticism Division, Special Session on “Why
Aesthetics Now?” MLA National Convention, New York, December
29, 2002
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Convener of a Division Session for the Division for Literary

Theory, MLA National Convention, New Orleans, December 27 -
30, 2001.
External Dissertation Examiner: University of South Africa;
University of Geneva; University of Montreal; Brown University
Board of Directors, Society for Critical Exchange (1982 - 88)
Editorial Board of Cultural Critique (1984 - 1990)
Member of Columbia University Seminar in Literary Theory (1975
—83)
Member of Columbia University Seminar in American Civilization
(1975 - 1983)
Secretary of 19th Century American Literature Division, NEMLA
(1982 - 83)
President of 19th Century American Literature Division, NEMLA
(1983 - 84)
Member of Committee on Social Thought, University of Pittsburgh
(1986—88)
Member of Modern Language Association of America
Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Literary Studies,
Johannesburg (1986 - present)