Associate Professor
About
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Departments of Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature (2015-present)
Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory, Cornell University
Department of Comparative Literature (2013-15)
Term Assistant Professor (ATER), Université Paris 8
Department of English (2008-10)
Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Brown University, 2013
Ph.D., American Literature, Université Lille 3, 2009
Fulbright Fellow, Department of English, Brown University (2007-08)
M.A., American Literature, Université Lille 3, 2005
Agrégation of English, Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm, 2003-04
Teaching and Research Fields
- Comparative Literature (English, French, German)
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Literary and Critical Theory
- Animal Studies and the Posthumanities
- Ecocriticism
Publications
Books
Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition (English, forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press).
Donner le change, with Thangam Ravindranathan (Hermann, May 2016)
Hawthorne: Blasted Allegories. (Aux Forges de Vulcain press, July 2015)
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre. Collection of essays co-edited with Thomas Constantinesco. (Presses de l’ENS de la rue d’Ulm, September 2011)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Birth of Geopower,” in collaboration with Ingrid Diran, Solicited by Diacritics
“Notes on Geopower,” in collaboration with Ingrid Diran, Climate Realism, a volume co-edited by Lynn Badia, Marija CetiniÄÂ , and Jeff Diamanti (Forthcoming)
“What Gives (donner le change),” SubStance, co-written with Thangam Ravindranathan (English, 2016)
“American Entrapments: Taxonomic Capture in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Duke University Press (English, April 2016)
“Palafox-Terrier: Heidegger suivant Chevillard,” in Animaux d’écriture : le lien et l’abîme. Numéro hors-série de la revue Romanesques, Classiques Garnier (French, October 2014)
“Capitalisme et capture : actualités d’un concept chez Deleuze et Guattari et Agamben,” Théorie, Littérature, Enseignement (French, November 2014)
“Huntology: Ontological Pursuits and Still Lives,” Diacritics, Johns Hopkins University Press (English, Summer 2012)
“Le Faune et la Sirène : la situation de Cuvier dans l’économie de The Marble Faun de Nathaniel Hawthorne,” Transatlantica (French, April 2012)
“Zarathustra’s Philosafari,” Humanimalia, Vol. 3, Number 2, Depauw University Press (English, January 2012)
“Mimèsis, langue et figure dans Comment une figue de paroles et pourquoi de Francis Ponge,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (SITES), Vol. 16 Issue 1, Routledge (French, January 2012)
“Moral Obliquity : les détours de la morale dans The Blithedale Romance,” in Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre, Presses de l’ENS de la rue d’Ulm (French, September 2011)
“Le montage aléatoire de l’histoire : Walter Benjamin et l’allégorie,” Théorie, Littérature, Enseignement, n°27 Presses Universitaires de Vincennes (French, November 2010)
“Chasser le naturel : le préjugé métaphysique de Lolita,” Sillages Critiques (French, February 2010)
“La Défaite de la transcendance dans ‘The Wedding Knell’ de Nathaniel Hawthorne,” Les Figures de la comparaison, Artois University Press (French, September 2010).
“Writing in the Name of: Hawthorne’s ‘Chiefly About War Matters,’” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (English, Republished for American readership, October 2009)
“Writing in the Name of: Hawthorne’s ‘Chiefly About War Matters,’” Revue Française d’Études Américaines (English, Fall 2008)
“The Temptation of Kitsch: The Fall of Hawthorne,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (English, Fall 2008)
“Les placements de la France dans Woman in the Nineteenth Century de Margaret Fuller,” Revue Française d'Études Américaines (French, October 2008)
Non-Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Comment parler d’Occupy ?” Aux Forges de Vulcain blog (French, July 2012).
“’A Second Rate Brand of English’ : la langue de seconde main dans Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov,” Le Texte étranger (French, April 2010).
Book Reviews
“Unraveling the Being of Materiality: Review of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics by Christopher Breu,” Cultural Critique (2018)
“A Hands-On Approach: Review of Ciferae. A Bestiary in Five Fingers, by Tom Tyler, Humanimalia (English, Fall 2013)
“Review of Les Voix du silence : La Lettre écarlate et les récits d’esclaves by Suzanne Fraysse,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (English, Fall 2010)
“Review of La Fabrique du sauvage dans la culture nord-américaine by Véronique Béghain and Lionel Larré,” Pessac, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2009,” Transatlantica (French, September 2010)
“Review of Journée d’études ‘Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre | 2,’” co-authored with Thomas Constantinesco, Transatlantica (French, March 2010)
“Review of Journée d’études ‘Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre,’” co-authored with Thomas Constantinesco, Transatlantica (French, March 2009)
Translations
Sheppard Lee: Écrit par lui-même. Translation of Robert Montgomery Bird’s 1836 gothic novel. (English to French, Aux Forges de Vulcain, September 2017).
Points of Departure (2 essays), a volume on the works of Samuel Weber, edited by Peter Fenves, Kevin McLaughlin and Marc Redfield (French to English, November 2016)
Anna Watkins Fisher, “Politique parasitaire et jeux épistolaires : les jeux d’adresse de Chris Kraus et de Sophie Calle,” (French to English) Le Texte étranger, Presses Universitaires de Paris 8 (2011)
Jeroen Gerrits, “La pertinence politique du perfectionnisme moral,” (English to French) La Voix et la vertu: Variétés du perfectionnisme moral, Presses Universitaires de France (2010)
Teaching
Assistant Professor, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
"Theory Today" (CL 600)
"This is Not Literature: A Survey of Literary and Critical Theory" (ENG 490)
"Philosophy as a Way of Life" (Class taught through the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, CL 376/ENG 317)
"Derrida" (Graduate Seminar, CL 740 - ENG 627)
"Becoming Animal: Global Metamorphoses" (CL 100)
“Creative Copying” (CL 322, Winter 2017)
“Still Life” (CL495, Fall 2016)
“Creative Copying” (CL322, co-taught with Ben Paloff, Fall 2016)
“Theory After 2000” (Graduate seminar, Fall 2015, CL 790)
“Artificial Natures: Introduction to Literary Studies” (English, Fall 2015)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Cornell University
“Biopolitics” (Graduate seminar, co-taught with Naminata Diabate, Spring 2015)
“Posthuman Fictions” (Freshman Writing Seminar, Spring 2015)
“Still Life: Technology, Animals, Representation” (Fall 2014)
“Introduction to Comparative Literature” (Fall 2014)
“Literal Meaning” (Graduate seminar, Spring 2014)
“Technologies of Capture” (Spring 2014)
“Introduction to Comparative Literature” (Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
