Robert Doran

Robert Doran

Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627

Tel: 585-275-7894

E-mail: rdoran@mail.rochester.edu

Ph.D., Stanford University, Comparative Literature, 2004

Ph.D., Sorbonne Nouvelle-University of Paris III, Comparative Literature, 2004

Academic Employment

2009 University of Rochester, Director, Summer Program in Rennes, France

2008- University of Rochester, Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature

2005-08 Middlebury College, Visiting Assistant Professor of French

Research and Teaching Interests

Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture; Aesthetics; Literary Theory; Film and Visual Culture; Intellectual History

Authored Book in Progress

The Sublime: Cultural Aesthetics from Longinus to Nietzsche

Edited Volumes

The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007, by Hayden White. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2010. (Edited and introduced.)

Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005, by René Girard. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008 (344 pages). Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. (Edited and introduced.)

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

“Erich Auerbach’s Humanism and the Criticism of the Future,” Moderna, semestrale di teoria e critica della letteratura, forthcoming 2009.

“Terrorism and Cultural Theory: The Singularity of 9/11,” SubStance 37.1 (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 (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, American Comparative Literature Association)

(Project Muse: Most accessed article for this journal in 2007)

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

“Ambiguity in Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game,” in Ambiguity, ed. Paolo Bartoloni and Anthony Stephens, Purdue University Press, forthcoming 2010.

“Humanism, Formalism, and the Discourse of History,” editor’s introduction to The Fiction of

Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007, by Hayden White, Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2010.

“Imitation and Originality: Thinking Creative Mimesis in Longinus, Kant, and Girard,” in

Critical Issues and Creative Possibilities for Mimetic Theory, eds. Vern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas Ryba, forthcoming 2009.

“Logique et Sublimité: Dupuy et Vertigo de Hitchcock,” in De l’auto-organisation au temps du projet. Autour de Jean-Pierre Dupuy - Colloque de Cerisy (Paris: Carnets Nord, 2009): 1-17

http://www.carnetsnord.fr/colloques/cerisy-2007/theme5

“Literature as Theory,” editor’s introduction to René Girard, Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005, by (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008): xi-xxvi.

http://www.sup.org/pages.cgi?isbn=0804755809&item=Introduction_pages&page=1

“The Narrative Logic of the Fantastic Tale,” in Tale, Novella, Short Story: Currents in Short Fiction. Eds. Holger Klein and Wolfgang Görtschacher. Tubingen: Stauffenberg, Studies in English and Comparative Literature, Vol. 20 (2004): 49-58.

Translated Articles

René Girard, six essays for Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005. ed, Robert Doran. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008: “History in Saint-John Perse,” 1-12; “Valéry and Stendhal,” 13-25; “Formalism and Structuralism in Literature and the Human Sciences,” 80-95; “Racine, Poet of Glory,” 96-124; “Monsters and Demigods in Hugo,” 125-133; “Bastards and the Antihero in Sartre,” 134-159.

René Girard, “On Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.” Anthropoetics 10.1 (2004).

http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu

George Hansel. “Emmanuel Levinas: 1906-1995.” Philosophy Today 43.2 (1999): 121-125.

Co-Translated Articles

Jean-Joseph Goux, “Untimely Islam: 9/11 and the Philosophies of History,” in SubStance 37.1: Cultural Theory After 9/11: Terror, Religion, Media (March 2008): 52-71.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/toc/sub37.1.html

Jean-Pierre Dupuy, “Anatomy of 9/11: Evil, Rationalism, and the Sacred,” in SubStance 37.1: Cultural Theory After 9/11: Terror, Religion, Media (March 2008): 33-51.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/toc/sub37.1.html

Interview

“Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11: An Interview with René Girard,” in SubStance 37.1: Cultural Theory After 9/11: Terror, Religion, Media (March 2008): 20-32.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/toc/sub37.1.html

Invited Lectures

“Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1: Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion,” Invited as a plenary speaker at the international conference, The (In)Visibility of War in Literature and the Media, Research Centre for Communication and Culture, Lisbon, Portugal, May 7-9, 2009.

“Auerbach and the Criticism of the Future,” invited to speak at the conference: Auerbach and the Future of Criticism, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, April 19, 2008.

“Logique et Sublimité: Jean-Pierre Dupuy et Vertigo,” invited to speak at the Colloque International en l’honneur et autour de Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Cerisy-la-Salle, France, July 15, 2007.

“Society and Spectacle,” Invited to speak by the Department of French and Italian, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 9, 2005.