Romance Languages and Literatures

Kevin Newmark

Professor of French

Authored and Edited Books and Volumes

Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.

Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History), Special Co-Editor and Contributor,听Yale French Studies听125 & 126, 2014.

Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers, by Paul de Man, ed. with E.S. Burt and Andrzej Warminski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, (Paperback reprint, 1996).

Apart茅: Conceptions and Deaths of S酶ren Kierkegaard, by Sylviane Agacinski, translation from the French with Critical Introduction and Notes. Tallahassee: Florida State Press, 1988.

Phantom Proxies: Symbolism and the Rhetoric of History, Special Editor and Contributor,听Yale French Studies听74, 1988.

Select Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淧aul de Man,鈥 in听Dictionnaire Maurice Blanchot, eds. Michael Holland and Hannes Opelz, Paris: Classiques Garnier, forthcoming, 2024.

鈥淧arting Ways: With Werner Hamacher,鈥澨Cultural Critique, No. 118, Winter, 2023, 172-216.

鈥淏audelaire鈥檚 Other Passer-by,鈥 in听Baudelaire and Other People, eds. Maria Scott and Alexandra Wettlauffer, L鈥橢sprit Cr茅ateur, 58:1, 2018, 17-31.

鈥淣ow You See It, Now You Don鈥檛: Baudelaire鈥檚听惭辞诲别谤苍颈迟茅,"听Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 44:1-2, November, 2015, 1-24.

鈥淩eading as a Desperate Practice,鈥 in听Poets as Readers, eds. Joseph Acquisto, Adrianna Paliyenko, and Catherine Witt.听London:听Institute of Modern Languages Research, Fall, 2015, 227-45.

鈥淔or When the Time Comes: Poetry, Prose, Mourning,鈥澨Yale French Studies听(co-editor of special double issue,听Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 200-217.

鈥淩esponding To/Answering For: The Secret,鈥 by Jacques Derrida. Translation from the French. In Yale French Studies (Special Double Issue:听Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 7-29.

"To Keep Intact the Secret: Sylviane Agacinski: Reading Kierkegaard," in听Kierkegaard鈥檚 Influence on Philosophy: Francophone Philosophy, ed. Jon Stewart. Abington, Oxon: Ashgate Press, 2012, 1-21.

"Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing," in听The Political Archive of Paul de Man: Property, Sovereignty and the Theotropic, ed. Martin McQuillan. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2012, 91-102.

"A Poetics of Sharing: Political Economy in a Prose Poem by Baudelaire,"听Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, special Issue devoted to the work of Jacques Ranci猫re, Guest Editor, Joseph Tanke, 15:2, Fall, 2011, 57-81.

"Who Needs Poetry? Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the Modernity of 'Le Cygne,'"听Comparative Literature, 63:3, Summer, 2011, 269-290.

"Dark Freedom: On J.M. Coetzee's听Disgrace," in听Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, ed. Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi. New York: Routledge Press, 2011, 296-306.

"Bewildering: Paul de Man, Poetry, Politics,"听MLN听(Comparative Literature), 124:5, December, 2009, 1048-1071.

"L'horizon du savoir: Emma Bovary comme mod猫le esth茅tique de la r茅ception chez H.R. Jauss,"听Madame Bovary et les Savoirs, ed. Pierre-Louis Rey and Gis猫le S茅ginger. Paris: Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne-nouvelle, 2009, 303-311.

"Tongue-tied: What Albert Camus' Fiction Couldn't Teach us about Ethics and Politics," in听Albert Camus in the 21st Century. Eds. Christine Margerrison, Mark Orme, and Lissa Lincoln. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2008, 107-120.

Select Papers

鈥淜ierkegaard鈥檚 Poetic Exemplars,鈥 Bi-weekly International Workshop (Zoom) on Kierkegaard鈥檚 four 鈥淒iscourses on the Lilies and the Birds,鈥 September-December, 2022.

鈥淧rose-Poetry and the Right to a Modern Death: Baudelaire鈥檚 "Une Mort h茅ro茂que, 鈥漀ineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Georgetown University, November, 2021.

Madame Bovary: le rien, l鈥檌ronie et la b锚tise," Guest Lecture, Seminar: 鈥淧our une contre-modernit茅 critique du dix-neuvi猫me si猫cle," Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2021.

Je dis: une fleur!听ellipsis鈥," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Florida State University, November, 2019.

I say a flower鈥擬allarm茅, Blanchot, and the deadly power of language," Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, College of the Holy Cross, October, 2019

鈥淪hineless: Starring Baudelaire," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, UC Riverside and Scripps College, October, 2018.

鈥淭he Personalization of Power: An Im-Personal Perspective," Venice International University, October, 2017.

鈥淏audelaire鈥檚 Other Passer-by," Department of French, Yale University, April, 2017.

鈥淏audelaire and Other People,鈥 Round-Table Discussion, Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, April, 2017.

鈥淏audelaire鈥檚 Providence: 鈥楲es Sept vieillards鈥," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Brown University, October, 2016.

鈥淪pectral Bodies: Baudelaire鈥檚 鈥楲es Sept vieillards鈥," Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes, University of Kent/Reid Hall, Paris, April 2016.

鈥淧aul de Man and 鈥楾he Concept of Irony.鈥欌 Guest Lecture, Seminar: 鈥淧ostmoderne und Dekonstruktion in Deutschland?,鈥澨 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, March 22, 2016.

"Allegory in Tatters: 'Les Sept Vieillards," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, November, 2015.

鈥淣ow You See It, Now You Don鈥檛: Baudelaire鈥檚听惭辞诲别谤苍颈迟茅, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, October, 2015.

鈥淕etting Out of Hand: Baudelaire鈥檚听Thyrse," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of San Juan, October, 2014.

鈥淎llegorical Capital,鈥 American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New York University, March, 2014.

鈥淲hat do we mean when we say 鈥榓llegory?鈥,鈥 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Richmond, October, 2013.

鈥淚rony on Occasion: Beginning with Kierkegaard,鈥 Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, February 19, 2013.

听鈥淧oetry, Prose, Penury: What You See is What You Don鈥檛 Get in Baudelaire鈥檚 鈥榊eux des Pauvres,鈥 鈥 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, North Carolina State University, October, 2012.

鈥淯nbelievable: Jacques Derrida and 鈥楻eligion,鈥 鈥 Conference Organizer, 艾可直播 College, April 26-27, 2012.

鈥淭he Unspeakable Secret: Traumatic Blanks in the Testimony of Maurice Blanchot鈥 艾可直播 College Conference, 鈥淎fter the Unthinkable: Trauma, Nachtr盲glichkeit, and Coming to Terms," 艾可直播 College, March, 2012.

鈥 鈥楶rosaic Modes of Language Power鈥: How Paul de Man Taught Us to Read Baudelaire,鈥 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven, October, 2010.

鈥淭hinking Poorly: Some Wan Reflections of the Political in Baudelaire鈥檚 Poetry鈥 MLA Conferene, Philadelphia, December, 2009.

鈥淭he Prose in Baudelaire鈥檚 Poetry: Two听Petits Po猫mes en Prose,鈥 seminar sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and French, Emory University, November, 13 2009.

鈥淲ho Needs Poetry? Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the Modernity of 鈥楲e Cygne鈥,鈥 lecture sponsored by the听Departments of Comparative Literature and French, Emory University, 12 November, 2009.

鈥淒eath in Venice: How the Arts put Society at Risk,鈥 The Arts in Society: 4th听International Conference, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy, July, 2009.

鈥淏ewildering: the Passage from Language to Politics in the Writing of Paul de Man,鈥 lecture sponsored by the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, International Conference, 鈥淧aul de Man鈥檚 Political Archive,鈥 University of California Irvine, April, 2009.

鈥淒ark Freedom: On J.M. Coetzee鈥檚听Disgrace,鈥 EACLALS Triennial Conference, 鈥淭ry Freedom,鈥 Venice International University, San Servolo, Venice, March, 2008.