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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. What Is Posthumanism? (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2009). Publications: Multiple Author Volumes Cora Diamond, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Ian Hacking, and Cary Wolfe, Philosophy and Animal Life, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), 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, 2009). 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). 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 of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2010). Publications: Articles and Essays "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.electronicbookreview.com "Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and the Poverty of Humanism," 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. “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 2009), pp. 129-151. “Lose the Building: Systems Theory, Architecture, and Diller+Scofidio’s Blur,” Postmodern Culture 16:3 (May 2006). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/toc/pmc16.3.html. “Bring the Noise: The Parasite and the Multiple Genealogies of Posthumanism,” intro. to Michel Serres, The Parasite, trans. Lawrence R. Schehr (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), pp. xi-xxviii. “Bioethics and the Posthumanist Imperative,” in Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, ed. Eduardo Kac (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007), pp. 95-114. “When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: The Prosthetics of Subjectivity and The Ethical Force of the Feminine in Dancer in the Dark,” in “Posthuman Conditions,” special double issue of Subject Matters 4:1, ed. Neil Badmington (Fall 2007): 113-144. “Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and The (Non) Human (Non) Speaking Subject,” in “DerridAnimals,” special issue of Oxford Literary Review 29 (2007), ed. Neil Badmington: 103-125; rpt. in Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader, ed. Jodey Castricano (Toronto: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2008), pp. 125-144. “Animal Studies and Disability Studies, or, Learning from Temple Grandin,” in “”Earthographies: Ecocriticism and Culture,” special issue of New Formations 64 (2008),ed. Wendy Wheeler and Hugh Dunkerley: 110-123. “The Idea of Observation at Key West: Systems Theory, Poetry, and Form Beyond Formalism,” New Literary History 39:2 (Spring 2008): 259-276. “Exposures,” in Cora Diamond, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Ian Hacking, and Cary Wolfe Philosophy and Animal Life, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), pp. 1-41. “The Digital, the Analogue, and The Spectral: Echographies from My Life in The Bush of Ghosts,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 13:1 (2008): 85-94. “Flesh and Finitude: Thinking Animals in (Post)Humanist Philosophy,” in “The Political Animal,” special issue of Substance 37:3 (2008), ed. Chris Danta and Dimitris Vardoulakas: 8-36. “Meaning as Event-Machine, or Systems Theory and `the Reconstruction of Deconstruction,’” in Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory, ed. Bruce Clarke and Mark Hansen (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2009). “Language,” in Critical Terms for Media Studies, ed. W.J.T. Mitchell and Mark Hansen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2009). “The Eye is the First Circle: Emerson’s Romanticism, Luhmann’s Modernity,” in The Other Emerson, ed. Cary Wolfe and Branka Arsic (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2009). “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 2009), pp. 45-58 and 123-133. “The Changing Profession: `Animal Studies,’ Disciplinarity, and the Posthumanities,” PMLA (forthcoming 2009). “Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context,” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 6 (forthcoming 2010). In modified form in French as “Devant la loix: Les Animaux dan le contexts de la biopolitique,” trans. Francois Balibar and Thierry Hoquet, Critique (August 2009): 703-716. “Humane Advocacy and the Humanities: The Very Idea,” in Humane Advocacy, ed. Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2010). “Theory as a Research Program: The Very Idea,” in Theory After “Theory,” ed. Derek Attridge and Jane Elliott (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2010).
Conference Papers 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. "Facing the Animals, or, Politics for Non-Humans," Conference of the American Literature Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., November 1995. "Caducous Waldo, Unapproachable America: Cavell, Zizek, and Emerson's `Experience,'" Conference of the Great Lakes American Studies Association, Bloomington, Indiana, March 1997. “Facing the Animals,” Conference of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, California, December 27-29, 1998. “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. “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. “Echographies from the Bush of Ghosts,” Conference for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, New York, NY, November 11, 2006. Invited Lectures, Keynote and Plenary Addresses "The Public Responsibility of the Academic Intellectual," Annual Lecture Series, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 4, 1996. “Back to the Garden of Eden, or, Race and Gender and Class and Ethnicity and Sexual Preference and Nationality and. . .Species?!,” invited lecture for "Back to the Futures: An Institute in American Studies," Humanities Research Institute, Dartmouth College, June 22-27, 1998. “Isabelle Stengers and the Question of Objectivity,” invited lecture for “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,” keynote lecture for 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,” invited 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. “Shifting Ground: The Downsview Park Competition,” invited lecture for 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,” invited lecture for “The Margins of Vitality,” special program of the UCLA Humanities Consortium, 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. “Dancer in the Dark and the Prosthetics of Subjectivity,” invited lecture, University of Manitoba, March 16, 2002. “Hemingway’s Stuffed Animals,” invited lecture, Department of English, Rice University, January 21, 2003. “Bioethics, Inc.,” invited lecture, 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. “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. Invited 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 and Science, 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. “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,” Invited lecture for Humanities Institute Lecture Series, ‘Redefining Nature’s Boundaries: Premodern and Postmodern Confluences,” Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, October 3, 2006. Primary Areas of Teaching Interest Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century American literature and culture, especially modernism and modern poetry. Critical theory, especially systems theory, pragmatism, and post-structuralism. “Animal Studies,” ethics, and philosophy. Science and literature studies. Literature and the Environment. Posthumanism. Courses Taught Freshman/Sophomore Level
Junior/Senior Level
Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Director (7), Committee Member (11). Graduate Level
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