Robert Doran
Assistant Professor of French and
Comparative Literature
Ph.D.,
Ph.D., Sorbonne
Nouvelle-University of
Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture; Cultural and Cross-Cultural Theory (Islam and the West); Film and Visual Culture; Aesthetics; Intellectual History; Literary Theory; French Anthropology and Sociology; Continental Philosophy
Selected Publications:
Authored
Book in Progress
The
Sublime: Aesthetics as Cultural Criticism
Edited
Volumes
The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory,
1956-2007, by Hayden White, Johns
Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2009.
Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature
and Criticism, 1953-2005,
by René Girard,
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5580
Special issue of SubStance 37.1 (March 2008): Cultural Theory after 9/11: Terror, Religion, Media.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/toc/sub37.1.html
Articles in a Journal
“Terrorism and Cultural Theory,” SubStance 37.1 (March 2008): 3-19.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/toc/sub37.1.html
“Literary History and the Sublime in Erich
Auerbach’s Mimesis,” New Literary History, 38.2 (2007): 353-369.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_literary_history/toc/nlh38.2.html
“Nietzsche: Utility, Aesthetics, History,”
Comparative Literature Studies 37.3 (2000): 321-343
(Aldridge Prize 1999, American Comparative Literature Association). Most accessed article
in this journal for 2007 (Project Muse).
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_literature_studies/toc/cls37.3.html
“Representing the Holocaust in a
Postmodern World,” Romance Languages Annual 7 (1996): 44-50.
Chapters
in a Book
“Mimesis and the Question of
Originality: Longinus, Kant, Girard,” in Creative Mimesis, ed. Vern Neufeld Redekop
and Thomas Ryba, forthcoming 2009.
“Ambiguity in Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game,” in: Ambiguity. Eds. Paolo Bartoloni and Anthony Stephens, Purdue University Press, forthcoming 2009.
“Logique et Sublimité: Dupuy et Vertigo de Hitchcock,” in: Actes du Colloque International en l’honneur et autour de Jean-Pierre Dupuy, forthcoming 2009.
“Literature as Theory,” editor’s introduction to Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005, by René Girard, Stanford University Press (2008): xi-xxvi.
“The Narrative Logic of the Fantastic
Tale,” in: Tale, Novella, Short Story: Currents in ShortFiction. Eds. Holger Klein and Wolfgang Görtschacher. Tubingen: Stauffenberg,
Studies in English and Comparative
Literature, Vol. 20 (2004): 49-58
Translations
René Girard, “Formalism and
Structuralism in Literature and the Human Sciences,” “Racine, Poet of Glory,” “Valéry and
Stendhal,” “Monsters and Demigods in Hugo,” “Bastards
and the Anti-Hero and in Sartre,” “History in Saint-John Perse,”
in: Mimesis and Theory:
Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005, Stanford University Press, 2008.
René Girard, “On Mel Gibson’s The
Passion of the Christ,” Anthropoetics 10.1
(2004)
http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1001/RGGibson.htm
George Hansel. “Emmanuel Levinas: 1906-1995,” Philosophy Today 43.2 (1999):
121-125.
Co-Translations
Jean-Joseph Goux,
“Untimely Islam: 9/11 and the Philosophies of History,” in: Cultural Theory After 9/11: Terror, Religion, Politics.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/toc/sub37.1.html
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, “Anatomy of 9/11: Evil, Rationalism, and the Sacred,” in: Cultural Theory After 9/11: Terror, Religion, Politics.