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VitaCary WolfeBruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor Houston TX 77251-1892
http://www.upress.umn.edu/index.html Education B.A. with Highest Honors, Interdisciplinary Studies in English, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984. M.A., Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986. Ph.D., Department of English, Duke University, 1990. Employment Indiana University, Bloomington: Assistant Professor, Department of English,
1990-96; Associate Professor, 1996-1998. Assistant , Associate Professor
of Cultural Studies 1993-1998. Assistant, Associate Professor of American
Studies, 1995-1998. Rice University, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor, Department of English, 2003-present. Publications: Books The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson, Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, no. 69 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside," Theory Out of Bounds Series, no. 13 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and the Posthumanist Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). Nominated for the James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association, 2004. Publications: Edited Collections The Politics of Systems and Environments I and II, special issues of Cultural Critique 30 and 31 (Spring and Fall 1995), ed., with William Rasch (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000) (rpt. of the above in modified form with new introduction). Critical Ecologies, special issue of EBR: Electronic Book Review 4 (Winter 1997), ed., with Joseph Tabbi. Online. World Wide Web: http://www.altx.com/ebr. The MSN issue: Music/Sound/Noise, special issue of EBR: Electronic Book Review, ed. with Joseph Tabbi and Mark Amerika. Online. World Wide Web: http://www.altx.com/ebr. Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths, ed. with Branka Arsic (Minneapolis: University Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2008). Publications: As Editor, Posthumanities, University of Minnesota Press 1. Michel Serres, The Parasite, trans. Lawrence R. Schehr, intro.
Cary Wolfe (2007). Publications: Articles "Symbol Plural: The Later Long Poems of A. R. Ammons," Contemporary Literature 30:1 (Spring 1989): 78-94. "Ezra Pound and the Politics of Patronage," American Literature 63:1 (March 1991): 26-42. "Nature as Critical Concept: Kenneth Burke, The Frankfurt School, and `Metabiology,'" Cultural Critique 18 (Spring 1991): 65-96. "Rethinking Commitment: Ontology, Genre, and Sartre's Mallarmé," diacritics 21:4 (Winter 1991): 70-85. "Antinomies of Liberalism: The Politics of `Belief' and the Project of Americanist Criticism," in Discovering Difference: Contemporary Essays in American Culture, ed. C. K. Lohmann (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993): 123-147. "Alone With America: Cavell, Emerson, and the Politics of Individualism," New Literary History 25:1 (Winter 1994): 137-157. "Making Contingency Safe for Liberalism: The Pragmatics of Epistemology in Rorty and Luhmann," New German Critique 61 (Winter 1994): 101-27. "Introduction: The Politics of Systems and Environments" (with William Rasch), Cultural Critique 30 (Spring 1995): 5-13. "In Search of Post-Humanist Theory: The Second-Order Cybernetics of Maturana and Varela," Cultural Critique 30 (Spring 1995): 33-70. "Theory of a Different Order: A Conversation with Niklas Luhmann and Katherine Hayles" (with William Rasch and Eva Knodt), Cultural Critique 31 (Fall 1995): 7-36. "Subject to Sacrifice: Ideology, Psychoanalysis, and the Discourse of Species in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs" (with Jonathan Elmer), boundary 2 22:3 (Fall 1995): 141-170. "Getting the Dirt on the Public Intellectual: A Response to Michael Bérubé," EBR: Electronic Book Review 2 (Spring 1996). 19 pp. Online. World Wide Web: http://www.altx.com/ebr. "Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and the Poverty of Humanism," EBR: Electronic Book Review 4 (Winter 1997). 38 pp. Online. World Wide Web: http://www.altx.com/ebr. Rpt. in diacritics 28:2 (Summer 1998): 21-40. "Learning to Be Post-Humanist: `Literature and Science' Now," American Book Review 18:5 (July-August 1997): 7-8. "Kenneth Burke, from the Thirties to the Nineties," Intellectual History Newsletter 19 (1997): 37-41. "Faux Post-Humanism, or, Animal Rights, Neocolonialism, and Michael Crichton's Congo , Arizona Quarterly 55:2 (Summer 1999): 115-153. "Introduction: Systems Theory and the Politics of Postmodernity" (with William Rasch), in Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity, ed. Cary Wolfe and William Rasch (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), pp. 1-32. “Fathers, Lovers, and Friend-Killers: Re-articulating Race and Gender via Species in Hemingway,” boundary 2 29:1 (Spring 2002): 223-257. “Introduction: Zoontologies,” in Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, ed. Cary Wolfe (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), pp. ix-xiii. “In the Shadow of Wittgenstein’s Lion: Language, Ethics, and the Question of the Animal,” in Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, ed. Cary Wolfe (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), pp. 1-57. “Total Systems and Dense Instances,” Preface to Salah El Moncef, Atopian Limits: Questions of Self, Complexity, and Contingency in Postmodern American Narrative (London: Peter Lang, 2003). “Ethics, Activism, and the Rise of Interdisciplinary Animal Studies: An Interview with Cary Wolfe,” conducted by Dana Medoro and Alison Calder, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 10 (Fall 2003): 39-52. “I am tempted to answer this question. . .,” The Anthology of Art: Art and Theory in Dialogue, ed. Jochen Gerz, Braunschweig School of Art (Germany), 10/24/02. Online: www.anthology-of-art.net. Published in print form in Through the ‘Net: Studies in Jochen Gerz’s “Anthology of Art” (Cologne: Salon Verlag: 2004). “Shifting Ground: The Downsview Park Competition,” in Beyond Form: Architecture and Art in the Space of Media, ed. Peter Dorsey, Christine Calderon, and Omar Calderon (New York: Lusitania Press, 2004), pp. 82-92. “Bioethics, Inc, or, How (Not) to Think the Question of “The Living,” in Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, ed. Eduardo Kac (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, forthcoming 2006). “Thinking Other-Wise, or, Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and The (Non) Human (Non) Speaking Subject,” special issue of Oxford Literary Review entitled “Derridanimals,” ed. Neil Badmington (forthcoming 2007); rpt. in Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader, ed. Jodey Castricano (Toronto: Wilfred Laurier University Press, forthcoming 2007). “Animal Studies and Disability Studies, or, Learning from Temple Grandin,” in “Eco-Criticism and Culture,” special issue of New Formations, ed. Wendy Wheeler (forthcoming 2007). “Meaning as Event-Machine, or Systems Theory and `the Reconstruction of Deconstruction,’” in Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Systems Theory, ed. Bruce Clarke and Mark Hansen (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2007). “Language,” commissioned entry for Critical Terms for Media Studies, ed. W.J.T. Mitchell and Mark Hansen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2007). “The Eye is the First Circle: Emerson’s Romanticism, Luhmann’s Modernity,” in The Other Emerson, ed. Cary Wolfe and Branka Arsic (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2007). “From Dead Meat to Glow in the Dark Bunnies: Seeing `The Animal Question’ in Contemporary Art,” in “Animal Beings,” special issue of Parallax 38 (January-March 2006), ed. Tom Tyler: 95-109; rpt. in Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature, ed. Sid Dobrin and Sean Morey (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2006). “Lose the Building: Systems Theory, Architecture, and Diller+Scofidio’s Blur,” Postmodern Culture 16:3 (forthcoming 2006). “When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: The Prosthetics of Subjectivity and The Ethical Force of the Feminine,” special double issue of Subject Matters (London Metropolitan University, UK) entitled “Posthuman Conditions,” ed. Neil Badmington (forthcoming 2007). Also available in MSN: Music/Sound/Noise, special issue of EBR: Electronic Book Review, no. 12 (Fall 2001), ed. Cary Wolfe, Joseph Tabbi and Mark Amerika. Online. World Wide Web: www.electronicbookreview.com. “Thinking Otherwise, or, Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and The (Non) Human (Non) Speaking Subject,” in “DerridAnimals,” special issue of Oxford Literary Review, ed. Neil Badmington (forthcoming 2008), rpt. in Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader, ed. Jodey Castricano (Toronto: Wilfred Laurier University Press, forthcoming 2008). “Animal Studies and Disability Studies, or, Learning from Temple Grandin,” in “”Eco-Criticism and Culture,” special issue of New Formations, ed. Wendy Wheeler (forthcoming 2008). "Flesh and Finitude: Thinking Animals in (Post)Humanist Philosphy," in "The Political Animal," special issue of Substance, ed. Chris Danta and Dimitris Vardoulakas (forthcoming 2008). “Meaning as Event-Machine, or Systems Theory and `the Reconstruction of Deconstruction,’” in Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Systems Theory, ed. Bruce Clarke and Mark Hansen (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2008). “Language,” in Critical Terms for Media Studies, ed. W.J.T. Mitchell and Mark Hansen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2008). “The Eye is the First Circle: Emerson’s Romanticism, Luhmann’s Modernity,” in The Other Emerson, ed. Cary Wolfe and Branka Arsic (in preparation). “Exposures,” intro. to Cora Diamond, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Philosophy and Animal Life, afterword by Ian Hacking (New York: Columbia U. Press, (forthcoming 2008). "The Digital, the Analogue, and the Spectral: Echographies from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (forthcoming 2008). “The Idea of Observation at Key West: Systems Theory, Poetry, and Form Beyond Formalism,” New Literary History, (forthcoming 2008). “`Animal Studies,’ Disciplinarity, and the Posthumanities” (in preparation). "Humanist and Posthumanist Anti-Speciesism” and “'On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings,’” in Paola Cavalieri, Matthew Calarco, J.M. Coetzee, Harlan Miller, and Cary Wolfe, The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue with Commentaries (New York: Columbia U. Press, forthcoming 2008).
“The Changing Profession: 'Animal Studies,’ Disciplinarity,
and the Posthumanities,” PMLA (forthcoming 2008).
Conference Papers, Invited Lectures, Keynote and Plenary Addresses Participant, 5-Day Seminar on Historicisms and Cultural Critique, "Dialectic of Enlightenment: To Be Continued," (with Marjorie Levinson), Penn St. University, June 1992. "The Politics of Genre in the Cantos of Ezra Pound," Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 1993. "Locating the Politics of Pragmatism: Property and Selfhood in William James," Conference on Pragmatism and the Politics of Culture, University of Tulsa, March 1993. "Subject to Sacrifice: Ideology, Psychoanalysis, and the Discourse of Species in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs," Indiana University, Fall 1993 (with Jonathan Elmer). "The Politics of Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory," Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, New Orleans, La., November 1994. "The Politics of Second-Order Cybernetics--TBA," Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Athens, Ga., March 1995. "Radical Humanism?!: Stanley Cavell's Emerson," invited lecture for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Conference of the American Literature Association, Baltimore, Md., May 1995. "Facing the Animals, or, Politics for Non-Humans," Conference of the American Literature Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., November 1995. "The Public Responsibility of the Academic Intellectual," Annual Lecture Series, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 4, 1996. "Caducous Waldo, Unapproachable America: Cavell, Zizek, and Emerson's
`Experience,'" Conference of the Great Lakes American Studies Association,
Bloomington, Indiana, March 1997. “Back to the Garden of Eden, or, Race and Gender and Class and Ethnicity and Sexual Preference and Nationality and. . .Species?!,” "Back to the Futures: An Institute in American Studies," Humanities Research Institute, Dartmouth College, June 22-27, 1998. “Facing the Animals,” Conference of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, California, December 27-29, 1998. “Isabelle Stengers and the Question of Objectivity,” “Cosmopolitiques” seminar with Isabelle Stengers, Center for Arts and Humanities, University at Albany, SUNY, April 24-26, 2000. “The Trace Beyond the Human: Derrida and Systems Theory on Language and Species,” Conference on “Millennial Animals: Theorizing the Importance of Animals for the 21st Century,” University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, July 29-31, 2000. “The End of the Book and the Archive to Come: Response to Jacques Derrida,” Roundtable with Jacques Derrida, Chris Fynske, and Peggy Kamuf, Conference on “Book/Ends: Transformations of the Book and Redefinitions of the Humanities,” University at Albany, SUNY, October 11-14, 2000. “Traces Beyond the Human,” Conference on “Book/Ends: Transformations of the Book and Redefinitions of the Humanities,” University at Albany, SUNY, October 11-14, 2000. “Shifting Ground: The Downsview Park Competition,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, November 14, 2000. “Fathers, Lovers, and Friend Killers: Re-articulating Race and Gender via Species in Hemingway,” “The Margins of Vitality,” special program of the UCLA Humanities Consortium with Donna Haraway, Katherine Hayles, and others, May 31-June 2, 2001. “In the Shadow of Wittgenstein’s Lion: Language, Ethics, and the Question of the Animal in Some Recent Philosophers,” The Warhaft Distinguished Speaker Annual Lecture, University of Manitoba, March 16, 2002. “Colloquium: Dancer in the Dark and the Prosthetics of Subjectivity,” University of Manitoba, March 16, 2002. “Hemingway’s Stuffed Animals,” Department of English, Rice University, January 21, 2003. “Bioethics, Inc.,” Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 11, 2003. “The Event-Machine: Monstrosities of Meaning from Systems Theory to Deconstruction,” Invited lecture and related seminars as Visiting Scholar (with Eric Alliez, Jacques Ranciere, and others) at the Fifth Annual Summer Academy, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, August 23-28, 2004. “Blur,” Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, Austin, TX, October 26, 2004. “Adventures of the Event-Machine, or Systems Theory and `The Reconstruction of Deconstruction,’” Semi-Annual International Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, Cité Universitaire, Paris, France, June 23, 2004. “Animal Rites,” One-hour Interview for Animal Voices, CIUT 89.5 FM, Toronto, Canada, March 22, 2005. “The Eye is the First Circle: Emerson’s Romanticism, Luhmann’s Modernity,” invited lecture in “Posthumanism and American Literature” series, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, England, May 5, 2005. Participant in “Forum on Cognition and Complexity” with Gerald Edelman, Katherine Hayles, and others, Conference for the Society for Literature and Science, Chicago, IL, November 12, 2005. “The Lure of the Animal,” Plenary Address, Conference for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Chicago, IL, November 12, 2005. “Thinking Other-Wise: Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and the (Non)Speaking (Non)Human Subject,” Keynote Address, Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, February 24th, 2006. “Animality and Disability, or, Learning from Temple Grandin,” Scientia lecture series, “Humans and Animals,” Rice University, Houston TX, February 28, 2006. “Learning From Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject,” Invited Lecture, Department of English, University of California at Irvine, March 8, 2006. “Learning From Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject,” Plenary Address for “Animal Humanities” Symposium, University of Texas, Austin TX. April 22, 2006. “Learning From Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject,” Invited Lecture for the series “The Lives of Animals,” Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, London, England, June 7, 2006. “Meaning as Event-Machine: Posthumanism, Systems Theory, and `The Reconstruction of Deconstruction,’” Invited Lecture and Seminar, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 12, 2006. “Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and the (Non)Speaking (Non)Human Subject,” Humanities Institute Lecture Series, ‘Redefining Nature’s Boundaries: Premodern and Postmodern Confluences,” Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, October 3, 2006. “Echographies from the Bush of Ghosts,” Conference for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, New York, NY, November 11, 2006. “Animal Studies and Disability Studies, or, Learning from Temple Grandin,” Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Lecture Series, “Being Animal, Being Human,” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, January 29, 2007.
“Systems Theory and. . .Poetry?!?,” Plenary Address for Conference of the Society for Textual Studies, New York University, New York, NY, March 16, 2007. Invited Senior Peer Reviewer, Animals and Society Institute Summer Fellowship Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, July 25-6, 2007. “Philosophy and Animal Life: Divergent Perpsectives,” Closing Plenary Address for “Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-Than-Human in Cultural Studies of The Environment” Conference sponsored by Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, October 28, 2007. “Exposures: Literature, Philosophy, and Fellow Creatures,” Sustainable Writing Workshop, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, October 29, 2007. “(Un)Thinking Animals,” Conference for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Portland, ME, November 3, 2007. |
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