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Occupation

Professor

Discipline(s)

English

University

Purdue University North Central

Department

English and Modern Languages

Country

USA

Town / City

Westville, Indiana

RESEARCH INTERESTS

literary theory, critical theory, criticism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, postanarchism, anarchism, anarchist studies, aesthetics, poetics, avant-gardes, popular culture, contemporary fiction, science fiction, film, cinema, comics, graphic novel, French, France, translation, psychoanalysis, Jewish, Yiddish, Proudhon, Landauer, Lazare, de Cleyre, Kafka, Kenneth Burke, Graeber, Reclus, Bakunin, Paul Goodman, Mujeres Libres, Armand Guerra, Daniel Colson

About me

My larger project, right now, is to explore the uses of the anarchist tradition, from Proudhon to the present, as a critical resource for the humanities and human sciences.  While my own field is literature -- I specialize in contemporary fiction and popular culture -- this is an essentially interdisciplinary project.

As part of my research, I have increasingly turned to sources that have only been available in other languages, particularly French; for instance, major works of Proudhon have never been translated into English.  Accordingly, I'm currently spending a sabbatical semester improving my translation skills and working on Englishing Proudhon's magnum opus, De la Justice (1858).  I have also recently completed a first draft of a translation of the sociologist Daniel Colson's astonishing book, Petit lexique philosophique de l'anarchisme de Proudhon à Deleuze (2001).

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