Robin Lydenberg

Professor Emerita

Department

English

Publications

  • GONE: Site-specific Works by Dorothy Cross by Robin Lydenberg (McMullen Museum and University of Chicago Press: 艾可直播 2005).
  • Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Christina Gilmartin, Robin Lydenberg (Oxford University Press: New York, 1999).
  • William S. Burroughs at the Front: 听Critical Reception, 1959-89, edited by Robin Lydenberg and Jennie Skerl. (Southern Illinois University Press: Carbondale, 1991).
  • Word Cultures: 听Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction, by Robin Lydenberg 听(University of Illinois Press: Urbana, 1987).

Articles and Chapters in Books

  • "Reading Lessons in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic," forthcoming in College Literature.
  • "Dorothy Cross and the Ethics of Touch," in Connemara, Dorothy Cross (Dublin: Royal Hibernian Academy, 2014): 6-13.
  • "Under Construction: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic," European Journal of English Studies, Vol 6, issue 1 (2012): 57-68.
  • 鈥淒uchamp鈥檚 Legacy: Aesthetics, Gender and National Identity,鈥 Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender, ed. Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner 听(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009): 151-66.
  • 鈥淪ite as Stage: Dorothy Cross at the Opera,鈥 Scenography International 9 (2007) (electronic juried journal)听
  • 鈥淒orothy Cross and the Art of Dispossession,鈥 听CIRCA 112 (Summer 2005): 24-33.
  • 鈥淐ontemporary Irish Art on the Move: At Home and Abroad with Dorothy Cross,鈥
  • Eire-Ireland 39. 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2004/2005):110-35.
  • 鈥淔rom Icon to Index: Some Contemporary visions of the Irish Stone Cottage,鈥 Eire/Land, ed. Vera Kreilkamp (McMullen Museum of Art: 艾可直播, 2003):127-33.
  • "Ways of Seeing: Recent Work by Dorothy Cross," Contemporary (January 2002): 26-31. 听
  • "William Burroughs: The Tapes," William S. Burroughs: Time, Place, Word, ed. Eric C. Shoaf (Proividence: John Hay Library, Brown University, October 2000): 26-34.
  • 鈥淒orothy Cross, Beyond Feminism鈥 Eire-Ireland (Fall/Spring 1999):212-26.
  • "Freud's Uncanny 听Narratives," PMLA(October 1997), 听pp.1072-86.
  • "'Sound identity fading out': 听William Burroughs' Tape Experiments," in Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-garde (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992), ed. Doug Kahn.
  • "Battambang: 听The Unnamable," in Marguerite Duras: The Unspeakable, Essays for Marguerite Duras (Potomac: Scripta Humanica, 1992), ed. Methchild Cranston, pp.89-99. 听
  • "Points of Intersection," in William S. Burroughs at the Front, co-authored and co-edited with Jennie Skerl (1991).
  • "Risky Pleasures: 听Feminism and the Avant-Garde," (review/article on Susan Suleiman's 听Subversive Intent), Critical Texts 7.1 (1990) , 听46-53.
  • Review of Nicholas Zurbrugg, Beckett and Proust, in Review of Contemporary Fiction 听(Spring, 1989), pp. 253-55.
  • "Engendering Collage: Collaboration and Desire in Dada and Surrealism," in Collage: A Reconsideration (UMI Press, 1989), ed. Kathryn Hoffman, pp. 271-286.
  • "El Hombre Invisible," The Nation(March 19, 1988), pp. 387-89. 听(Review/Article on Burroughs' The Western Lands) 听Reprinted in William S. Burroughs at the Front (1991).
  • "Notes from the Orifice: Language and the Body in William Burroughs,"Contemporary Literature, 26:1 (1985), pp. 55-73.
  • "Beyond Good and Evil: 听'How-To' Read Naked Lunch," 听Review of Contemporary Fiction, 听4:1 听(1984), pp. 75-85.
  • "Ghostly Rhetoric: 听Ambivalence in Matthew G. Lewis' 听The Monk," 听Ariel: 听A Journal of International English Literature, 10, No. 2 (1979), 65-78. 听(Reprinted in NCCR, forthcoming.)
  • "Borges as a Writer of Parables," International Fiction Review, 听6, No. 1 听(1979), 31-39. 听(Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 13, pp. 111-13.)
  • "Against the Law of Gravity: 听Female Adolescence in Isak Dinesen's 听Seven Gothic Tales," 听Modern Fiction Studies, 24, No. 4 (1978-79), 521-32. 听(Reprinted in Collection of Short Story Criticism, 听1992.)
  • "Metaphor and Metamorphosis in Les Chants de Maldoror," 听Esprit Cr茅ateur, 18, No. 4 (1978), 3-14.
  • "Gothic Architecture and Fiction: 听A Survey of Critical Responses," Centennial Review, 听XXII, 1 (1978), 95-109.
  • "Cut-Up: 听Negative Poetics in Roland Barthes and William Burroughs," Comparative Literature Studies, XV, 听4 听(1978), 听414-30.
  • "Surviving Lautr茅amont: The Reader in Les Chants de Maldoror," Esprit Cr茅ateur, 听XVII, 听No. 3 听(1977), 听211-27. [ Reprinted in French Poetry from the Rennaissance to 1915, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1992)]
  • "Advertising Rhetoric: 听Myths of Nature and History," 听Michigan Quarterly Review, 听XVII, No. 1 (1978), 65-75.
  • "L'artifice comme technique narrative dans Les Chants de Maldoror," Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 听X, 听No. 2 听(1977), 听115-29.
  • "Towards an Invisible Commentary," Diacritics, 6 No. 1 (1976), 27-33.

Papers Delivered at Conferences

  • 鈥淩ace and Representation: Carrie Mae Weems,鈥 at American Image/Text conference, University of East Anglia, Summer 2011.
  • 鈥淩eading Lessons from Alison Bechdel鈥檚 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,鈥漚t Association of Art Historians annual conference, April 2010, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • 鈥淩esearch Methods: Working with Visual Material,鈥 invited lecture at Charles V, Anglophone Studies (graduate), Paris, March 2007.
  • 鈥淒orothy Cross: GONE at 艾可直播 College,鈥 听Dublin, July 2005, lecture at 艾可直播 College Institute of Irish Studies.
  • 鈥淕eneologies of Ireland in Dorothy Cross鈥檚 Art,鈥 Irish Seminars, Dublin, invited speaker July 2005.
  • 鈥淪ite as Stage: Dorothy Cross鈥檚 site-specific operas,鈥 International Scenography Conference, Amsterdam May, 2005.
  • 鈥淢emory, Desire and Loss in the Work of Dorothy Cross,鈥 听Northern Colorado University, invited speaker March 2005.
  • 鈥淰isualizing Migration,鈥 paper delivered at International Visual Sociology Association in Southampton, England, July 7-10, 2003.
  • 鈥淕eneologies of Ireland in Dorothy Cross鈥檚 Art,鈥 Irish Seminars, Dublin, invited speaker July 2005.
  • 鈥淪ite as Stage: Dorothy Cross鈥檚 site-specific operas,鈥 International Scenography Conference, Amsterdam May, 2005.
  • ;鈥淢emory, Desire and Loss in the Work of Dorothy Cross,鈥 听Northern Colorado University, invited speaker March 2005
  • 鈥淰isualizing Migration,鈥 paper delivered at International Visual Sociology Association in Southampton, England, July 7-10, 2003.
  • 鈥淭he Return of the Repressed and the Impossibility of Desire,鈥 paper delivered at 鈥淐reativity and the Unconscious,鈥 sponsored by London Institute of Psychoanalysis, July 10-11, 2003, London.
  • "The Banality of Death," paper to be delivered at Warwick University conference, The Invention of Death, June 2001.
  • "Siting/Citing Ireland's Fading History: Dorothy Cross's Site Specific Art Installations," ISAIL international conference at Bath, England, July 2000.
  • "In the Toilet: Art and Politics," 艾可直播 College Arts Festival, Spring 2000.
  • "The Fertile Void: History and Language in the Art of Dorothy Cross," 艾可直播 College, lecture series related to "Irish Art Now" exhibit at McMullen Museum, November 1999.
  • 鈥淭he Fertile Void: History and Language in the Art of Dorothy Cross,鈥 International Irish Studies Association, Barcelona, July 1999.
  • 鈥淏eyond Feminism?鈥 听Irish Women Writers Conference,
  • University College Dublin, May,1999.
  • "Politics and the Uncanny" at meeting of Psychoanalysis and Culture Association, Washington, D.C., November 7-10, 1996.
  • "Science and Narration: the Sexual Theories of Freud and Little Hans,鈥 at Society for the Study of Narrative, Utah, May 1995. 听[On Three Essays on the Theory of 听Sexuality 听and Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy.]
  • 鈥淔reud鈥檚 Uncanny Narratives,鈥 Society for Study of Narrative, Vancouver, May 1994. [On Freud鈥檚 use of interpolated personal narratives in his essay 鈥淭he Uncanny.鈥漖
  • 鈥淭racking Freud鈥檚 Uncanny,鈥 at International Conference on the Fantadstic, SUNY Binhamtom, May 1993. [On theories of the uncanny in feminist theory, popular culture and political theory (Kristeva, Siebers, Bhabha).]
  • "The Emergence of the Uncanny," talk delivered at International Association of Philosophy and Literature in Berkeley, May, 1992. 听[On appropriations of the uncanny by psychoanalysis, philosophy and literary theory.]
  • "Appropriating Magritte," talk delivered at Annual Conference of International Association of Philosophy and Literature (May, 1991) in Montreal.
  • "Teaching Literary Theory through Painting" 听delivered December 14, 1989 at West Chester University as part of a University series on contemporary theory.
  • "William Burroughs: 听Precursor of Contemporary Theory," Northeast Modern Language Association, New Jersey, 1986.
  • "Lautr茅amont and the Labor of 听Les Chants," Modern Language Association, Chicago 1985.
  • "William Burroughs' Naked Lunch," Conference on Postmodern Culture, Virginia, 1982.
  • "How-To Read Naked Lunch," Contemporary Literature of the Americas: 听The Writer's World, Puerto Rico 1982.
  • "Isak Dinesen's Gothic Tales," 听Modern Language Association, Chicago, 1977.
  • "'Celui qui parle: 听narrative Voice in Les Chants de Maldoror," 听Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, Indiana , 1977.
  • "The Reader in Les Chants de Maldoror," Modern Language 听Association, San Francisco, 1975.

Professional Activities

Ran interdisciplinary study group on Freud (members from B.C. and B.P.S.I., since Fall 1994). Ended Spring 2000.

Member of award committee for Affiliate Scholar fellowship for B.P.S.I.

Affiliate Scholar, B.P.S.I., Fall l993.

Teach in Radcliffe Graduate Consortium in Womens Studies (1995-99)

Occasional manuscript reviewing for university presses and journals and external reviewer for tenure and/or promotions cases