BOOKS
Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Poetry's Knowing Ignorance. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Proust, Music, and Meaning: Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Paperback edition 2016.
Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France: Critical Reflections, co-edited volume with Adrianna M. Paliyenko and Catherine Witt. London: Institute of Modern Languages Research, 2015.
Thinking Poetry: Philosophical Approaches to Nineteenth-Century French Poetry, edited volume. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012. Paperback edition 2014.
French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
EDITED SPECIAL ISSUE
The Cultural Currency of Nineteenth-Century French Poetry, a special double issue of Romance Studies (26:3-4, July/November 2008) co-edited and prefaced with Adrianna M. Paliyenko
REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"On Metaphysics and the Political: a Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s," forthcoming in Nottingham French Studies (2019).
“Baudelaire Modern and Antimodern: Le Spleen de Paris in an Interdisciplinary Course on Modernity,” in Cheryl Krueger, ed., Approaches to Teaching Le Spleen de Paris, (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2017), 88-95.
“Entre Rimbaud et Bataille: Le salut, le savoir et l’impossible renoncement à la poésie dans Une saison en enfer,” in Parade sauvage 27 (2016), 131-44.
“Modern Listening: Proust, Beethoven, and the Music of Silence,” in Partial Answers 14:2 (June 2016), 237-53.
“Intonation, Interpretation, and Meaning in Mallarmé’s ‘Petit Air II,’” in Thinking Verse 5 (2015): 149-171.
“On Ernest Seillière, Benjamin Fondane, ‘Naturist Mysticism’, and the Dangers of Baudelaire,” in Comparative Critical Studies 12:3 (2015), 303-18.
“Gautier on Baudelaire: Lessons from Hawthorne” in Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France: Critical Reflections (London: Institute of Modern Languages Research, 2015), 113-30.
“Saving Creation: Agamben and Baudelaire, the Poet and the Critic,” in L’Esprit Créateur 54:3 (Fall 2014), 53-65.
“Résonance, accord, voyage : la politique du poétique chez Baudelaire et Rancière,” in Revue des Sciences Humaines 314 (Avril-juin 2014), 73-86.
“Falling into Salvation in Cioran” in Studies in Twentieth and Twenty First-Century Literature 38:1 (2014), 1-22.
“Performing the Ineffable: Poem, Gesture, and Performance in Debussy’s Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé,” in Dix-Neuf 17:1 (April 2013), 90-103.
“Baudelaire with Badiou: Event and Subjectivity in ‘L’Héautontimorouménos,’” in Thinking Poetry: Philosophical Approaches to Nineteenth-Century French Poetry (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) 185-201.
“On Artistic Form and the Spiritual: Mallarmé, Schönberg, and Kandinksy on Poetry, Mystery, and Music,” in Thinking Verse 2 (2012), 68-87.
“Listening to Silence in Pascal Quignard’s Vie secrète,” in L’Esprit Créateur 52: 1 (Spring 2012), 83-95.
“The Strange Surprising Adventures of Reading Balzac’s Louis Lambert,” in French Studies LXVI: 3 (July 2012), 316-330.
“Les temps de l’antimodernité : Baudelaire avec Cioran,” in Christophe Ippolito, ed., Résistances à la modernité (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010), 99-116.
“Vivre le désappointement : une lecture cioranienne de l’épisode de la Berma,” forthcoming in Vincent Ferré and Karen Hadded-Wotling, eds., Proust : Dialogues critiques (Presses Universitaires de Rennes).
“Cross-referencing Bowie: Layers and Networks in Mallarmé and Proust” in Gill Rye and Naomi Segal, eds., ‘When familiar meanings dissolve…’: Essays in Memory of Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011), 135-50.
“The Place of Poetry: Nature, Nostalgia, and Modernity in Jaccottet’s Poetics,” in Modern Language Review 105: 3 (July 2010), 679-694.
“Epistémologie et esthétique de la déception chez Proust et Cioran,” in Revue Romane 45: 1 (2010), 117-130.
“Erasing Collaboration: The Case of André Gill and Louis de Gramont” in Seth Whidden, ed., Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), 91-105.
“Reading Echoes in Baudelaire: Between Philosophic and Genetic Approaches” in Romance Studies 26: 4 (November 2008), 286-296.
“Digesting Les Fleurs du Mal: Imaginative Spaces and Liquid Modernity in Baudelaire” in Nineteenth-Century French Studies 37: 1-2 (Fall-Winter 2008-2009), 30-41.
“La musique du désir et de la pureté: Gide face à Chopin” in Bulletin des Amis d’André Gide 157 (January 2008), 19-32.
“The Decadent Writer as Collector and Flâneur: On Intertextual Networks and Literary Spaces in Huysmans” in French Forum 32: 3 (Fall 2007), 65-80.
“Mallarmé et Flaubert aux frontières de la fiction” in Lingua Romana 6: 1 (Fall 2007), n.p.
“Reigniting Vigny: Fire, Transformation, and Modernity in His Lyric Poetry” in Symposium 61: 2 (Summer 2007), 99-116.
“On Naturalist Vice: The Strange Case of Charlot s’amuse” in Excavatio 21: 1-2 (2006), 36-47.
“‘Sowing some roses on the thorns of life’: Desire, Nature, Interpretation, and Judgment in Sade and Baudelaire” in Romance Studies 24: 1 (March 2006), 15-27.
“The Lyric of Narrative: Exile, Poetry, and Story in Saint-John Perse and Elizabeth Bishop” in Orbis Litterarum 60: 5 (2005), 344-356.
“Between Stéphane Mallarmé and René Ghil: The Impossible Desire for Poetry” in French Forum 29: 3 (Fall 2004), 27-41.
“Medieval Monsters: Creating Past and Present in Zola and Huysmans,” in Excavatio 19: 1-2 (2004), 236-250.
“Uprooting the Lyric: Baudelaire in Wagner’s Forests” in Nineteenth-Century French Studies 32: 3-4 (Spring-Summer 2004), 223-237.
“Music, Desire, and Death in The Magic Mountain” in Michael J. Meyer, ed., Music and Literature, (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2002), 9-21.
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