William Franke Department of French and Italian Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee

http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/complit/franke email: [email protected] telephone: (615) 322-6900 fax: (615) 322-6909

ACADEMIC DEGREES: 1988-91 Stanford University, Ph. D. in Comparative Literature 1986-88 University of California at Berkeley, M.A. in Comparative Literature 1978-80 Oxford University, M.A. in Philosophy and Theology 1974-78 Williams College, B.A. in Philosophy, summa cum laude EMPLOYMENT: 2013 - present University of Macao (SAR, China) Professor Catedrtico of Philosophy and Religions Professor of Comparative Literature [University of Hong Kong, Professor of European Studies, declined May 2012] 1991 - present Vanderbilt University (USA) Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian and Professor of Religious Studies

International Visiting Appointments and Teaching Abroad Visiting Fellow in Philosophy and Religions, University of Macao (China), Fall 2011 Research Scholar in Residence, University of Salzburg (Austria), Summer 2008 Professor of French in Residence, Vanderbilt-in-France, Aix-en-Provence, Spring and Fall 2008 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and Study of Religion, University of Salzburg, Center for Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions (Zentrum Theologie Interkulturell und Studium der Religionen), 2006-07 Honorary Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, Fall 2005 ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS: Fellowships Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Full-year research fellowship in Germany, 1994-95 (affiliated with Universitt Potsdam, sponsored by Prof. Dr. Helena Harth) Bogliasco Foundation (Genova, Italy), Fellow in Philosophy, Spring 2006 Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), Residential Research Fellowship, Fall 2000 Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (Vanderbilt), Fellow, 1995-96 (year-long weekly seminar on the Millennium, with stipend) Stanford Fellowship (in lieu of New Century Fellowship at University of Chicago and University Fellowship at Yale), 1988-91 John E. Moody Scholarship, Oxford University, 1978-80 Honors and Awards Dante Society Council, by general election of The Dante Society of America, 2007-2010 Rosenberg Poetry Prize, UC Berkeley, 1987 Skeat-Whitfield Essay Prize in English, Oxford University, 1979 Scholarship to W. B. Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, 1979 John W. Miller Prize in Philosophy, Williams College, 1978 Phi Beta Kappa, 1977

Grants and Stipends Research Scholar Grant for translation into German of Poetry and Apocalypse, Vanderbilt University Research Council, Summer 2008-09 Research Grant for On What Cannot Be Said, Vanderbilt University Research Council, 2002 Travel Awards from the Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici, Naples, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 Direct Research Support Grant, Vanderbilt University Research Council, Summer 1996 Summer Research Grant, Vanderbilt University Research Council, Italy 1992 PUBLICATIONS: Books A Philosophy of the Unsayable Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press (forthcoming) Dante and the Sense of Transgression: The Trespass of the Sign London and New York: Continuum [Bloomsbury Academic], 2012 New Directions in Religion and Literature Series (200 + xv pages) Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language Stanford: Stanford University Press: 2009 (211 + xiv pages) Translated into German by Ursula Liebing and Michael Sonntag as: Dichtung und Apokalypse: Theologische Erschliessungen der dichterischen Sprache Aus dem Amerikanischen von Ursula Liebing und Michael Sonntag Salzburger Theologische Studien Band 39 (interkulturell 6) Innsbruck: Tyrolia Verlag, 2011 (216 pages) On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Edited with Theoretical and Critical Essays by William Franke Vol. I: Classic Formulations (401 + xi pages) On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Edited with Theoretical and Critical Essays by William Franke Vol. II: Modern and Contemporary Transformations (480 + viii pages) Dantes Interpretive Journey Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 (242 + xi pages) Religion and Postmodernism Series Articles and Essays (In press or commissioned and contracted) 96. Saint Paul Among the Theorists: A Genealogy of the New Universalism Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion, ed. Mark Knight 95. Dante and the Secularization of Religion through Literature Religion and Literature 45/1 (2013):

94. The Religious Vocation of Secular Literature: Dante and Postmodern Thought, In Religion and Literature in Italian Tradition, ed. Salvatore Bancheri (forthcoming) 93. Between Ethics and Mysticism: Dantes God-Trauma as Levinasian Relation to the Other Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma, ed. David Miller forthcoming 92. Poetics of Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, vol. 2, issue 3 forthcoming 91. The New Apophatic Universalism: Deconstructive Critical Theories and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition The Journal of European Studies (2014) forthcoming 90. Symbol and Allegory The Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics, Chapter 30, eds. Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander forthcoming 89. Unsayability and the Promise of Salvation: Apophatics, Literary Representation, and the World to Come Ende oder Umbau einer Erlsungsreligion? eds. Gnther Thomas and Markus Hfner, Religion und Aufklrung series (Tbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013) forthcoming 88. Cosmopolitan Conviviality and Negative Theology: Europes Vocation to Universalism Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality: New Dimensions of the European in Literature, eds. Federico Fabris, Christoph Houswitschka (Bamberg University Press, forthcoming) 87. The Paramount Importance of What Cannot Be Said in Public Theological Discourse Contextuality and Intercontextuality in Public Theology, eds. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Florian Hhne, Tobias Reitmeier (Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2013), series on Theology in the Public Square 86. Le commencement et la fin de la philosophie dans la mystique apophatique: De Platon au postmodernisme In Mtaphysique et mystique: Stanislas Breton sur les traces des mystiques, ed. Jean Greisch (CERISY), forthcoming 85. Paradoxical Prophecy: Dantes Strategy of Self-Subversion in the Inferno Italica 90: 3 (2013), forthcoming 84. Altizers Apocalyptic Theology and the Poetic Apocalypse of Finnegans Wake: The Birth of Christian Epic out of the Death of God In Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular: Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse and Doubt in Contemporary English-Language Verse, ed. Franca Bellarsi, Comparative Poetics Series/P.I.E. (Netherlands: Peter Lang, 2012) forthcoming 2013 (appeared so far) 83. Dantes Hermeneutic Complicity in Violence and Fraud in Inferno IX-XVII University of Toronto Quarterly 82/1 (Winter 2013): 1-19 82. Apophasis as the Common Root of Radically Secular and Radically Orthodox Theology International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73/1 (2013):

81. The Secondariness of Virgilian Epic and its Unprecedented Originality College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 40/1 (2013): 11-31 2012 80. The Place of the Proper Name in the Topographies of the Paradiso Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 87/4 (2012): 1089-1124 79. From the Bible as Literature to Literature as Theology: A Theological Reading of Genesis as a Humanities Text Interdisciplinary Humanities 29/2 (Summer 2012): 28-45 78. Total Forgetting as the Moment of Truth at the Climax of Dantes Divine Comedy and the Christian Epic Tradition, in Erfahren, Erzhlen, Erinnern: Narrative Konstruktionen von Gedchtnis und Generation in Antike und Mittelalter / Record, Relate, Remember: Narrative Constructions of Memory and Generation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, eds. Benjamin Pohl, Maurice Sprague and Linda Hrl (Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2012), pp. 299-326 77. Dantes Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Prophetic Voice and Vision in the Malebolge (Inferno XVIII-XXV) Philosophy and Literature 36/1 (2012): 111-121 76. Apophatic Paths: Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Aesthetics of Nothing Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 17/3 (2012): 7-18 75. Un dptico apofatco: Juan de la Cruz y Samuel Beckett [An Apophatic Dyptich: John of the Cross and Samuel Beckett ] Despalabro. Ensayos de Humanidades 6 (2012): 179-88 74. The Origin of Philosophy in Theological Critique of Idolatry and its Consummation in Negative Theological Critique of Conceptual Idolatry Hermeneutica, Nuova serie (2012): 315-32 73. Dantes Hermeneutic Rite of Passage: Inferno IX Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism on Dante (Gale/Cengage Learning, 2012) Reprinted from Dantes Interpretive Journey, pp. 82-118 72. Negative Theology, Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions eds. Anne Runehov, Lluis Oviedo (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012) Co-authored with Chance Woods 2011 71. Dantes New Life and the New Testament: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Revelation The Italianist 31 (2011): 335-66 70. Gospel as Personal Knowing: Theological Reflections on not Just a Literary Genre Theology Today 68/4 (2011): 413-23 69. On Doing the Truth in Time: The Aeneids Invention of Poetic Prophecy Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 19/1 (2011): 111-21 68. Prophecy as a Genre of Revelation: Synergisms of Inspiration and Imagination in the Book of Isaiah Theology 114/5 (2011): 340-52

67. Involved Knowing: On the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms 16/4 (2011): 447-68 66. Homers Musings and the Divine Muse: Epic Song as Invention and as Revelation Religion and Literature 43/1 (2011): 1-28 65. The Canon Question and the Value of Theory: Towards a New (Non-)Concept of Universality The Canonical Debate Today. Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries, eds. Liviu Papadima, David Damrosch, and Theo Dhaen (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 55-71. 2010 64. The Missing All: Emily Dickinsons Apophatic Poetics, Poetry for Students, vol. 35 (Kennedale, TX: Gale Group, 2010) [Reprinted from Christianity and Literature 58/1 (2008): 61-80] 63. Sulla verit poetica che superiore alla Storia: Porfirio e la critica filosofica della letteratura, Italian translation of On the Poetic Truth that is Higher than History . . . (#61) with critical introduction (Per una Critica Speculativa) by Laura Lucia Rossi Enthymema: Rivista di teoria, critica e filosofia della letteratura 1 (2010): 1-17 62. On the Poetic Truth that is Higher than History: Porphyry and the Philosophical Interpretation of Literature International Philosophical Quarterly 50/4 (2010): 415-430 [Reprinted in Acts of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas) 2010 International Conference on Thought in Science and Fiction] 61. The Death and Damnation of Poetry in Inferno XXXI-XXXIV: Ugolino and Narrative as an Instrument of Revenge Romance Studies 28/1 (2010): 27-35 60. Alighieri, Dante, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, and Petrarch, Francesco. Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. Daniel Patte (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2010) 2009 59. Dantes Inferno as Poetic Revelation of Prophetic Truth, Philosophy and Literature 33/2 (2009): 252-66 58. Existentialism: An Atheistic or a Christian Philosophy? In Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century, Chapter 22 Analecta Husserliana 103 (2009): 371-94 57. Equivocations of Metaphysics: A Debate with Christian Moevss The Metaphysics of Dantes Comedy Philosophy and Theology 20/1-2 (2009): 29-52 56. Beyond the Limits of Reason Alone: A Critical Approach to the Religious Inspiration of Literature Position Statement in forum of invited contributions to Special Issue on the discipline: Religion and Literature 41/2 (2009): 69-78 55. James Joyce and the Bible The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature, chapter 46 Eds. Christopher Rowland, Christine Joynes, Rebecca Lemon, Emma Masson, Jonathan Roberts (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 642-53. 2008

54. Edmond Jabs, or the Endless Self-Emptying of Language in the Name of God Literature and Theology 22/1 (2008): 1-17 53. The Missing All: Emily Dickinsons Apophatic Poetics Christianity and Literature 58/1 (2008): 61-80 52. The Coincidence of Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness: A Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue Journal of Religion 88/3 (2008): 365-92 51. Le Nom de Dieu comme vanit du langage au fond de tout mot selon Edmond Jabs, ["The Name of God as the Vanity of Language in the Heart of Every Word"], trans. by Martine Prieto and Geoffrey Obin, Edmond Jabs : L'closion des nigmes, eds. Daniel Lanon et Catherine Mayaux (Vincennes: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007), pp. 249-60 (Paris: Littrature Hors Frontires, 2008). 2007 50. Eine kritische Negative Theologie des Dialogs: Die Koinzidenz von Vernunft und Offenbarung in kommunikativer Offenheit [ A Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue: The Coincidence of Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness], translated by Michael Sonntag Salzburger theologishe Zeitschrift 11 (2007): 217-49. 49. The Ethical Vision of Dantes Paradiso in Light of Levinas Comparative Literature 59/3 (2007): 209-27 48. The Ethical Posture of Anti-Colonial Discourse in Said and in Gandhi Journal of Contemporary Thought 25 (Summer, 2007): 5-24 47. Poetic Language, Apocalypse, and the Premises for Dialogue Between a Secular West and Radical Islam Reconstructing Realities: Occident-Orient Engagements eds. Ganakumaran Subramaniam, Shanthini Pillai and Hafriza Burhanudeen (Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Longman, 2007), pp. 41-52 46. The Deaths of God in Hegel and Nietzsche and the Crisis of Values in Secular Modernity and Post-Secular Postmodernity Religion and the Arts 11/2 (2007): 214-41 45. Scripture as Theophany in Dantes Paradiso Religion and Literature 39/2 (Spring 2007): 1-32 (2006 Annual Religion and Literature Lecture, University of Notre Dame) 44. Hermeneutics, Historicity, and Poetry as Theological Revelation in Dantes Divine Comedy In Art and Time, ed. Jan Lloyd Jones et al. (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), pp. 39-56 43. The Rhetorical-Theological Presence of Romans in Dante: A Comparison of Methods in Philosophical Perspective In Medieval Readings of Romans, eds. William S. Campbell, Peter S. Hawkins, Brenda Dean Schildgen (New York: T & T Clark International, 2007), pp. 142-52 2006 42. Primordial Sacrifice, Typology, and the Theological Vocation of Literature: Extending Gian Balsamos Interpretation of Joyce and Christian Epic

Literature and Theology 20/3 (2006): 251-68 41. Praising the Unsayable: An Apophatic Defense of Metaphysics Based on the Neoplatonic Parmenides Commentaries Epoch: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11/1 (2006): 143-73 40. Apophasis and the Turn of Philosophy to Religion: From Neoplatonic Negative Theology to Postmodern Negation of Theology In Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion, ed. Eugene Long, Special issue of International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 60/ 1-3 (2006): 61-76 39. Linguistic Repetition as Theological Revelation in Christian Epic Tradition: The Case of Joyces Finnegans Wake Neophilologus 90/1 (2006): 155-172 2005 38. The Singular and the Other at the Limits of Language in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Edmond Jabs and Paul Celan New Literary History 36/4 (2005): 621-38 37. Varieties and Valences of Unsayability in Literature Philosophy and Literature 29/2 (2005): 489-97 36. The Linguistic Turning of the Symbol: Baudelaire and his French Symbolist Heirs In Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism , ed. Russel Whitaker (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005), vol. 144: French Symbolist Poetry, pp. 40-47 [Reprinted from Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity, volume in Honor of Claude Pichois, ed. Patricia Ward (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 28-40.] 35. Franz Rosenzweig and the Emergence of a Post-Secular Philosophy of the Unsayable International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 58/3 (2005): 161-80 34. Virgil, History, and Prophecy Philosophy and Literature 29/1 (2005): 73-88 2004 33. Damascius. Of the Ineffable: Aporetics of the Notion of an Absolute Principle Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 12/1 (2004): 111-31. (Introduction with original translation from the Greek of De principiis, Part I, cc 3-8) 32. A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Apophasis and the Experience of Truth and Totality In Imaginatio Creatrix, ed. A.-T. Tymieniecka, Analecta Husserliana LXXXIII (2004): 65-83. 31. Truth and Interpretation in the Divine Comedy In Dante Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom (Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2004), pp. 287-305. [Excerpt reprinted from Dantes Interpretive Journey, pp. 5-23] 30. The Dialectical Logic of Yeatss Byzantium Poems In Poetry Criticism, vol. 51, ed. Carol Ullman (Kennedale, TX: Gale Group, 2004), pp. 146-52

[Reprinted from Yeats-Eliot Review 15, no. 3: 23-32] 2002 29. The Exodus Epic: Universalization of History Through Ritual In Universality and History: The Foundations of Core, ed. Don Thompson, Darrel Colson, and J. Scott Lee (Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2002), pp. 59-70 28. The Interpretive Journey and the Allegory of Reading: Introduction to the Inferno as a Humanities Text, in Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context, ed. Bainard Cowen and J. Scott Lee (Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2002), pp 75-82 27. Literature as Liturgy and the Interpretive Revolution of Literary Criticism Preface to Gian Balsamo, Scriptural Poetics in Finnegans Wake (Lewisburg, New York: Edwin Mellin Press, 2002), pp. v-xiii 26. Il significato teologico del paesaggio di san Benedetto nel Paradiso di Dante [The Theological Significance of the Landscape around Saint Benedict in Dantes Paradiso] Lo Speco CVII, no. 4 (2002): 80-82 2001 - 2000 25. William Franke on Post-Structuralist Interpretation In Italo Calvino: Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom (Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2001). pp. 28-30. [Reprinted from The Deconstructive Anti-Logic of Italo Calvinos Le citt invisibili, Italian Quarterly 30 (1989)]. 24. Dantes Address to the Reader en face Derridas Critique of Ontology Annalecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research LXIX (2000): 119-31. 23. Prophecy Eclipsed: Hamlet as a Tragedy of Knowledge In Core Texts in Conversation, eds. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, David Sokolowski, and J. Scott Lee (Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2000), pp. 149-54 22. Metaphor and the Making of Sense: The Contemporary Metaphor Renaissance Philosophy and Rhetoric 33/2 (2000): 137-154 21. Apocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue: A Negatively Theological Perspective International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 47/2 (2000): 65-86 20. The Linguistic Turning of the Symbol: Baudelaire and his French Symbolist Heirs In Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity, volume in Honor of Claude Pichois, ed. Patricia Ward (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 28-40 19. Figuralism, Albert the Great, Constantine, Israel," William II of Sicily In The Dante Encyclopedia (New York-London: Garland Publishing, 2000), ed. Richard Lansing, pp. 376-79, 11, 216-17, 524-525, 885-86. 1990s 18. Eine Kontextbestimmung der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft--das Beispiel Vanderbilt In Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft. Konturen und Profile im Pluralismus, pp. 181-92 With John McCarthy, ed. Carsten Zelle (Opladen/Wiesbaden, 1999)

17. Apocalyptic Poetry Between Metaphysics and Negative Theology: From Dante to Celan and Stevens Literature and Belief 19/1,2 (1999): 261-284 16. Enditynges of Worldly Vanitees: Truth and Poetry in Chaucer as Compared with Dante The Chaucer Review 87, no. 1 (1999): 87-106 15. The Dialectical Logic of Yeatss Byzantium Poems Yeats-Eliot Review 15, no. 3 (Summer 1998): 23-32 14. Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutics of the Subject: Freud, Ricoeur, Lacan Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review 38 (1998): 65-81 13. Readers Application and the Moment of Truth In Dante: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Amilcare Iannucci (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 59-80. [reprint, revised, of Dante and Modern Hermeneutic Thought, Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante Research and Interpretation 12 (1993): 34-52] 12. Blind Prophecy: Miltons Figurative Mode in Paradise Lost In Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination, ed. John Hawley (New York: Fordham University Press, 1996), pp. 87-103 11. Resurrected Tradition and Revealed Truth: Dantes Statius Quaderni ditalianistica 15/1-2 (1994): 7-34 10. Dante and the Poetics of Religious Revelation Symploke: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship 2/2 (1994): 103-116 9. Dantes Hermeneutic Rite of Passage: Inferno IX Religion and Literature 26/2 (1994): 1-26 8. In the Interstices Between Symbol and Allegory: Montales Figurative Mode Comparative Literature Studies 31/4 (1994): 370-89 7. Dantes Address to the Reader and its Ontological Significance MLN (Modern Language Notes) 109 (1994): 117-27 6. Hermeneutic Catastrophe in Racine: The Epistemological Predicament of 17th Century Tragedy Romanische Forschungen 105 (1993): 315-31 5. Poetics and Apocalypse in Manzonis Interpretation of History Esperienze letterarie Anno XVIII - n. 4 (1993): 17-38 4. Dante and Modern Hermeneutic Thought Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante Research and Interpretation 12 (1993): 34-52 3. The Logic of Infinity: European Romanticism and the Question of Giacomo Leopardi Comparatio: Revue Internationale de Littrature Compare 1 (1990): 69-82 2. The Deconstructive Anti-Logic of Italo Calvinos Le citt invisibili Italian Quarterly 30 (1989): 31-41 1. Note on Robert Harrisons The Body of Beatrice

Rivista di studi italiani 4 (1988): 78-82 Critical Reviews and Appreciations Review of Peter Hawkins, Dante: A Brief History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), in HYPERLINK "http:// sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/dhNpkY/Review%20of%20Hawkins%20Dante..pdf" Christianity and Literature HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/dhNpkY/Review%20of%20Hawkins %20Dante..pdf" : 471-72 Review of Massimo Verdicchio, Of Dissimulation: Allegory and Irony in Dantes Commedia in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature Review of Warren Ginsberg, Dante and the Aesthetics of Being in Speculum 76/3 (July 2001), 727-29 Dante and Modernism. On David Pikes Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds, review article in Speculum 74/3 (1999): 808-11 Diecimila quadri ed anche qualcuno di pi, Larte illustrata 5, November 1985 Poesia e politica si mescolano, Tempi di fraternit, August 1985 Due poeti e un libro, Tempi di fraternit, September 1986 Poetry The Automocrat, Only Poetry, Spring 1982 Invocation of Campion, Jenny Arranging Herself to Play Violin: an Appreciation by Her Pianist, Passing the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, California State Poetry Quarterly, Volume IX, No. 1, 1982 Contemporaries, California State Poetry Quarterly, Volume X, No. 2, Summer 1983 Dance of the Shirts, The Writer, November 1984 Letter to a Friend, March, SEAMS: The Cultural Art Journal, Volume 2 No. 1, Fall 1985 Free Riding I-IV, SEAMS: The Cultural Arts Journal, Volume 2, No. 2 Winter-Spring 1986 Glimpses I-IV, SEAMS: The Cultural Arts Journal, Volume 2, No. 3, Summer-Fall 1986 Limbo, Faring Well in Arms, Lightspot, SEAMS: The Cultural Arts Journal, Volume 2, No. 4, Winter-Spring 1987 Original Lyric, Outsight, BERKELEY POETS 1987 (Rosenberg Prize)

PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS: (* for key-note, named, plenary, or invited lectures)

2013 * Lloge de la fadeur et la litote du neutre: Entre Franois Jullien, Maurice Blanchot et Roland Barthes [The Eulogy of Blandness and the Litotes of the Neutral: Between Franois Jullien, Maurice Blanchot, and Roland Barthes] Colloquium: A partir de lentre, voir (itinraire de Franois Jullien) CERISY-la-Sale (France), September 14-21, 2013 * Dantes Theology and Contemporary Thought International Seminar Dantes Theology sponsored by Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Leeds Center for Dante Studies, and Devers Program for Dante Studies (Notre Dame) Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem, June 21, 2013 Agambens Logic of Exception and its Apophatic Roots and Offshoots Except Asia: Agambens Work in Transcultural Perspective, International Conference, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, June 25-27, 2013 * The Return of Religion and the New Universalism in Humanities Studies International Speakers Series on The Humanitiesthe Next 50 Years International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan , April 15, 2013 * All or Nothing? The Question of Nature as Bond between the Chinese Classic Past and the Global Future Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Philosophy Colloquium: Nature-Time-Responsibility University of Macao (China), April 12-14, 2013 Franois Jullien and the Notion of Immanence: Chinese compared with Western Thought and Culture Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong (ASAHK), 8th Annual Conference: Transformations, Development and Culture in Asia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives University of Hong Kong, March 8-9, 2013 2012 Religious Literatures Secular Vocation: Dante and Postmodern Thought Conference on Italian Literature and Religion Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, October 11, 2012 * The Writing of Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan Advanced Research Symposium on Suffering in Literature and Trauma Studies English Department, University of Macao, August 23-26, 2012 * Der bergang zum anderen Zustand als literarisches Motiv Invited Research Conference: Ende oder Umbau einer Erlsungsreligion? Verschiebungen in der Vorstellung eines nicht nur endlichen, sondern ewigen Lebens Evangelisch-Theologisch Fakultt, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, July 12-15, 2012 The New Apophatic Universalism: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition International Conference on Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality: New Dimensions of the European in Literature University of Bamberg, May 24, 2012 * KEYNOTE SPEECH: The Art of Memory or the Forgetting of Art? Visionary Moment in Dante and Blanchot International Conference: Memory: Impressions, Expressions, Reflections: An Interdisciplinary Conference, The Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA)

Pretoria, March 28, 2012 The Apophatic Experiential Grounds of Philosophy of Religion Wesleyan Philosophical Society, annual meeting on Philosophy and Religious Experience Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, March 1, 2012 * Christian Figuralism and Kenosis: From Otherworldliness to the Becoming Worldly of Otherness MLA National Convention, Religion and Literature Section, Panel on Secularism Seattle, Washington, January 6, 2012 2011 *

The Holistic Ideal of the Humanities and Religious Revelation:

Linguistic-Cultural Diaspora or a New Universality? Lecture for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong, November 7, 2011 * Epic Imagination and the Unlimited Vision of Literature Distinguished Lecture Series, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Macao, October 27, 2011 * Reading Emily Dickinson: Three Approaches to One of her Poems, with linguist Martin Montgomery and translator Zhang Meifang, Department of English Seminar Series, University of Macao, October 21, 2011 * Litinraire du corps dans la Divine comdie de Dante (The Itinerary of the Body in Dantes Divine Comedy) Lecture and seminar for the Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic Institute of Paris, September 23, 2011 * Le commencement et la fin de la philosophie dans le mysticisme apophatique: de Platon au postmodernisme (The Beginning and the End of Philosophy in Apophatic Mysticism: From Plato to Postmodernism) Lecture at colloquium on Philosophie et Mystique: Autour de Stanislas Breton, CERISY-la-Sale (France), August 27, 2011 * Dante e la teologia negativa [Dante and Negative Theology] ISSR (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose), University of Urbino Carlo Bo, August 18, 2011 Canonicity, Creativity, and the Total Revelation of Literature The Hospitable Text Conference: New Approaches to Religion and Literature, London, July 14-17, 2011 The Paramount Importance of What Cannot Be Said in Public Theological Discourse International Conference on Contextuality and Intercontextuality in Public Theology GNPT (Global Network for Public Theology) Dietrich Bonhoeffer Research Center for Public Theology University of Bamberg, June 24, 2011 * A Philosophy of the Humanities: Their Classical Roots and Contemporary Relevance Lecture sponsored by Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Macao, May 5, 2011 * KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Letargo and the Argo: Total Forgetting as the Moment of Truth at the

Climax of Dantes Divine Comedy and the Christian Epic Tradition 4. Internationale Nachwuchstagung des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs: Generationenbewutsein und Generationenkonflikte in Antike und Mittelalter: Erfahren, Erzhlen, Errinern: Narrative Konstruktionen von Gedchtnis und Generation in Antike und Mittelalter [4th International Postgraduate Colloquium, DFG [German Research Foundation]: Record, Relate, Remember: Narrative Constructions of Memory and Generation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages] Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, March 2- 4, 2011 2010 Response to Mary Watt lecture, Dante, Columbus, and Stigliani's Mondo Nuovo: Literary construction and spiritual imperialism. Religious History Colloquium. Vanderbilt Divinity School, September 15, 2010 Dont Mention It: Emily Dickinsons Poetics of Still Appreciation (read by Gary Stonum) Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) International Conference Oxford University, August 8, 2010 * PLENARY ADDRESS: The Scientific Paradigm and the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities th International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas): 12 Thought in Science and Fiction Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, August 4, 2010 Porphyry and the Philosophical Interpretation of Literature Session on Literary Philosophy and Philosophical Literature ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas) Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, August 3, 2010 Poetic Revelation: Between Language and Apocalypse Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular: Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse and Doubt in Contemporary English-Language Verse Facult de Philosophie et Lettres, Universit Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium, May 7, 2010 2009 * KEYNOTE SPEECH: Il Trapassar del Segno: Language and Transcendence in Dantes Paradiso The Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference of the Nordic Dante Network: Dante and Transgression University of Tampere, Finland, August 20, 2009 2008 The Canon Question and the Value of Theory: Towards a New Concept of Universality Conference on National Literatures in the Age of Globalization: The Issue of Canon University of Bucharest, November 1, 2008 Existentialism: A Christian Philosophy or the Ultimate Atheism? The Fourth World Congress of Phenomenology: The Phenomenology and Existentialism of the Twentieth Century Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, August 18, 2008 * Le Paradis de Dante et les conceptions monastiques du ciel au moyen ge Abbaye Saint-Wandrille, Normandy, France, July 22, 2008 + Lecture du Ciel de Jupiter dans le Paradis de Dante, July 23, 2008 Acknowledging Unknowing: Stanley Cavell and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature

Conference on Stanley Cavell and Literary Criticism Edinburgh University, May 11, 2008 2007 Poetics of Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington November 2, 2007

Porphyry and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature Guest Lecture in the Institute for Classical Philology University of Salzburg, May 14, 2007

A Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue: The Coincidence of Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness (Vorlesung auf Englisch abgehalten mit anschliesender Diskussion auf Deutsch) University of Salzburg, May 9, 2007 Postmodern Identity Politics and the Social Tyranny of the Definable Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film Tallahassee, Florida, February 3, 2007 2006 The Ethical Posture of Post-Colonial Discourse in Edward Said and in Mahatma Gandhi 9th International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Udaipur, Rajasthan (India), December 16, 2006

Scripture as Theophany in Dantes Paradiso

2006 Annual Lecture in Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, October 30, 2006 Habermass Critical Reexive Philosophy versus Premodern Poetic and Theological Reexivity th International Philosophy Colloquium: The Structure of ReflectionSelf-Conscioiusnes and Critique 12 Evian, France, July 16-22, 2006 The Missing All: Emily Dickinsons Apophatic Poetics College English Association 37th Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 7, 2006 Edmond Jabs, or the Name of God as the Vanity of Language in the Heart of Every Word XVIIth Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures Stetson University, Deland, Florida, March 3, 2006 2005 * Primordial Sacrifice, Typology, and the Theological Vocation of Literature in Finnegans Wake Lecture for Department of Comparative Literature Seminar Series, University of Hong Kong December 5, 2005

Poetic Language, Apocalypse, and the Premises for Dialogue: How a Secular West Can Face Radical Islam. Worlds in Discourse: Representations of Realities, International Conference, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia, November 21, 2005 * Shadowy Prefaces: Literature, Theology, and the Philosophy of Unsaying Lecture for Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, November 8, 2005 The Truth of Art in Time and in Eternity: Dantes Divine Commedy Conference on Art and Time, Australian National University, November 3, 2005 * The Death of God and the Crisis of Values in Secular Modernity and Post-secular Postmodernity Lecture Series on Culture, Value, and the Meaning of Life Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong, September 28, 2005 A Heideggerian Reading of Prophetic Temporality in the Aeneid ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Annual Convention Penn State University, March 11, 2005 An Epistemology of the Humanities as Involved Knowing National Assocation for Humanities Education 2005 Convention Richmond, February 25, 2005 What Philosophical Criticism of Literature Can Do Seventh Annual Comparative Literature Conference: Thinking on the Boundaries: The Availability of Philosophy in Film and Literature, University of South Carolina, February 11, 2005 2004 The Place of the Proper Name in the Italian Topographies of the Paradiso MLA (Modern Language Association) National Convention, Philadelphia, December 28, 2004 Apophasis and the Neoplatonic Interpretation of Religious Revelation AAR (American Academy of Religion) National Convention. Platonism and Neoplatonism Group. San Antonio, November 21, 2004. Proper Names, Singularities, and the Unnameable in the Topographies of Dantes Paradiso Names and the Unnameable: Literary Art and Spiritual Vision: 2004-05 Midwest Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Notre Dame University September 17, 2004 Typological Re-Origination and the Theological Vocation of Poetry Bloomsday 100: 19th International James Joyce Symposium Dublin, Ireland, June 14, 2004 Christian Epic Tradition and Theological Revelation in Finnegans Wake Conference on Christianity and Literature Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, March 27, 2004 Negative Theology in Dantes Paradiso after Derrida and Levinas Medieval and Postmodern Intersections: NJCEA 27th Annual Conference Seton Hall University, March 20, 2004 New Interpretations of Joyce and Christian Epic

Miami Joyce Conference, January 30, 2004 2003 Primary Metaphorization and the Origin of Language: Vicos Heritage Session on Italian Literature between Religion and Philosophy from Baroque Culture to Romanticism MLA national convention, San Diego, December 28, 2003 Dante and the Secularization of Religion through Literature Division on Literature and Religion: Religion and the Rise of Literary Studies MLA national convention, San Diego, December 27, 2003 Response to papers on The Letter to the Romans Through the Ages Society for Biblical Literature at the AAR (American Academy of Religion) national convention Atlanta, Georgia, November 22, 2003 "Dante's Ugolino, or Narrative as the Instrument of Sin" Session on Ethics and Narrative PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Assoc.), Claremont College, November 8, 2003 Le nom de Dieu comme vanit du langage au fond de tout mot selon Edmond Jabes (The Name of God as the Vanity of Language at the Bottom of Every Word according to Edmond Jabs) Colloque Jabs at CERISY (Centre Internationale de Culture) Cerisy, France, August 19, 2003 "Mystical Rhetorics of Silence: Medieval to Modern" Sixth International Literature and Humanities Conference: Inscriptions in the Sand, Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Cyprus, June 1, 2003 Paul Celans Immemorial Silence ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) annual convention: Crossing Over San Marcos, California, April 5, 2003 Negative Theology in the Neoplatonic Parmenides-Commentary Tradition and as Revived in Contemporary Apophatic Forms of Thinking Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism (SCAP) American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 31, 2003 Virgils Invention of History as Prophecy Comparative Literature Conference: Imagining Rome California State University, Long Beach, March 15, 2003 Dante: Prophet and Pioneer of Secular Humanism Conference on Humanism, SUNY Stony Brook, February 28, 2003 2002 A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Apophatic Discourses from Plato to the Postmodern Vanderbilt Philosophy Colloquium, October 11, 2002 Joyces Typology and the Theological Vocation of Poetry International James Joyce Symposium, session on Joyce and the Bible Trieste, Italy, June 21, 2002

The Writing of Silence in Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan and Edmond Jabs Phenomenology and Literature Conference: Aesthetics of Mystery in Poetry, Novel, Drama and Film Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 9, 2002 Virgils Invention of History as Prophecy Classical Association of the Atlantic States, session on Augustan Latin Poetry Cherry Hill, New Jersey, April 27, 2002 2001 "Singularity, Alterity, and the Unspeakable: Apophasis in Post-Holocaust Poetry and Thought. International Phenomenological Symposium: Singularity-Subjectivity-The Other Perugia, Italy, July 17, 2001 On What Cannot Be Said: Significances of Silence in Society, Philosophy, Religion, Literature and the Arts, McGill Philosophy Discussion Hour Vanderbilt, April 2, 2001 2000 * Dantes Paradiso and the Poetics of Unsayability Presentation at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, November 18, 2000 Topografie italiane come metafore dellaltro mondo nel Paradiso dantesco (Italian Topographies as Metaphors for the Other World in the Paradiso) XVII Conference of A.I.S.L.L.I. (Associazione Internationale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana) on the topic Le Dimore della Poesia (The Dwellings of Poetry) Gardone Riviera (Brescia), Italy, June 3, 2000 Dantes Poetics of Exile International Dante Seminar, invited as discussant by Societ Dantesca Italiana Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, June 9-11, 2000 The Exodus Epic: History and Ritual 2000 Association for Core Texts and Curriculums (ACTC) Sixth Annual Conference San Francisco, April 15, 2000 Theological Apocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue in Literature: Some Political and Poetic Proposals for the New Millennium, Comparative Literature Colloquium, Vanderbilt, January 25, 2000 1999 The Lyric Poetics of the Paradiso 1999 South Atlantic MLA Convention, Atlanta, November 6, 1999 Inferno as a Humanities Text: The Interpretive Journey and the Allegory of Reading 1999 Association for Core Texts and Curriculums (ACTC) Fifth Annual Conference New Orleans, April 11, 1999.

Poetry as Apocalypse and as Negative Theology: Dante to Paul Celan and Wallace Stevens Lecture for the Department of French and Italian and Committe on Graduate Studies Louisiana State Universtiy, March 19, 1999

Language as Exile: The Poetics of Ineffability (French Graduate Conference on Exile, read for me in absentia by Prof. Patricia Ward) Vanderbilt University, February 26, 1999 1998 Joyce and Christian Epic Tradition: Linguistic Repetition and Theological Revelation XVI International James Joyce Symposium Rome, June 18, 1998 Prophecy Eclipsed: Hamlet as a Tragedy of Knowledge 1998 Association for Core Texts and Curriculums (ACTC) Fourth Annual Conference University of North Carolina, April 19, 1998. Dantes Address to the Reader en face Derridas Critique of Ontology XXII Annual Phenomenology and Literature Congress, The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning Harvard University, April 16, 1998 Theory of the Symbol in French Symbolist Poetry: Baudelaires Heirs Lre de Baudelaire: Symposium Honoring Claude Pichois W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire Studies, Vanderbilt University, April 4, 1998 Dante and Derrida: Ontology and Hermeneutics Philosophy Colloquia Series, Department of Philosophy Vanderbilt University, February 20, 1998 1997 Dantes Vision of Scripture in the Heaven of Jove 1997 MLA Conference: Medieval/Renaissance Italian Division Toronto, December 30, 1997 Apocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue Colloquium for History and Critical Theories of Religion Program, The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Vanderbilt University, 3 December, 1997 Poetry Between Metaphysics and Negative Theology: From Dante to Celan Symposium on The Tradition of Metaphysical Poetry and Belief, November 1, 1997 Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, Brigham Young University Dantes Comet: Apocalyptic Poetry and its After-Sparks Symposium on History, Apocalypse and the Secular Imagination University of British Columbia, September 19, 1997 An Evening Around William Franke and his Dantes Interpretive Journey Religious Studies Department, Vanderbilt University, September 8, 1997. Humanities Knowledge and the Bible 1997 Association for Core Texts and Curriculums (ACTC) Third Annual Conference Temple University, April 11, 1997 1996

Dantes Address to the Reader and Derrida on Address 1996 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference on Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies, University of Notre Dame, April 12, 1996 Petrarch, Bocaccio, and the Waning of Dantes Hermeneutic Horizon Tenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval -Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, March 14, 1996. Session Chair: Lee Patterson 1995

* Resurrection and the Like: Historical Tradition and Revelation According to Dante Alighieri.
Lecture at the Graduate Center for Medieval Studies, Medieval History Series, University of Reading, England, May 26, 1995. 1994 Truth and Interpretation in the Divine Comedy Ninth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval -Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida, March 11, 1994 1993 Dante and the Poetics of Religious Revelation MLA Special Session on Literature and the Concern for Truth Toronto, December 28, 1993 Heidegger and the Greeks Seminar at Collegium Phaenomenologicum Perugia, Italy, August 1993 Dante, Gadamer and the Question of Suprahistorical Truth International Hermeneutics Symposium Heidelberg, July 2-4, 1993 1992 Heidegger on Heraclitus Logos Fragment Workshop in program of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, August 1992 The Divine Comedy as Prophetic Poem Pair of lectures in Great Works Series at Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Vanderbilt University, April 10, 1992 Dantes Address to the Reader and its Resonance with Contemporary Theories of Interpretation Symposium in Comparative Literature on Dante and Modernism University of Tulsa, March 27, 1992 1991 The Sign of the Swan and the Polysemous Dove: Incarnational Poetics in Dante and Mallarm Lecture sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature

Stanford University, June 10, 1991 Historical Sense and Readers Historicity in the Divine Comedy Lecture for the Medieval Studies Forum Stanford University, May 29, 1991 Blind Prophecy: Miltons Figurative Mode in Paradise Lost Conference on Christianity and Literature Santa Clara University, May 3, 1991 The Polysemous Dove: Truth and Interpretation in the Divine Comedy Lecture for The Program in Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University, January 25, 1991

LANGUAGES: Modern Italian (perfectly fluent) French (perfectly fluent) German (perfectly fluent) Spanish (fluent) Chinese, Mandarin (basic) Ancient Greek Latin Medieval Middle English Old French Occitan (Langue doc) Middle High German (University-level experience teaching in German, French, and Italian, as well as in English, for courses in philosophy, literature, and theology. Ancient and medieval languages listed are ones used in published research.)

EDITORIAL BOARDS: Hermeneutica Enthymema: Rivista di teoria, critica e filosofia della letteratura Advances in Literary Study

TEACHING-RELATED ACTIVITIES: New Courses Introduced DIV 3910-01 / RLST 243 Paul and Postmodern Political Theologies (Spring 2010) DIV 3910-01 / REL 3910-01 / RLST 294 Apophatic Theology and Culture (Fall 2009) FR 256. Existentialisme en Philosophie, Littrature et Thologie (At Vanderbilt-in-France, Fall 2008) VORLESUNG Postmodernreligionsphilosophien [Postmodern Philosophies of Religion] (At University of Salzburg, Spring 2007) CONVERSATORIUM. Apophatische oder negative Theologie in der Kultur [Apophatic or Negative Theology in Culture] (At University of Salzburg, Spring 2007) CONVERSATORIUM. Dantes Paradiso im theologischen Hinblick [Theology Perspectives on Dantes Paradiso] (At University of Salzburg, Spring 2007) DIV 388/FR Post-Modern Theory: In the Wake of the Death of God (Fall 2006) LECTURE COURSE. Postmodernism (At University of Hong Kong, Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2005) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/bE74s0/CLT%20360%20Philosophy%20and %20Literature.doc" CLT 360 Philosophy and Literature: Philosophical Criticism of Literature (Spring 2005) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/cJMY8g/CLT%20341%20Introduction%20to %20Literary%20Theory%20and%20Criticism.doc" CLT 341 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism: Current Trends (Fall 2003, 2004) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/dPsROw/CLT%20340%20Introduction%20to %20Literary%20Theory%20and%20Criticism.doc" CLT 340 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism: Classic Texts and Traditions (Spring 2003, 2004) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/eA0O0U/The%20Writing%20of%20Silence.doc" CLT 355 The Writing of Silence (Spring 2002) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/lmqz16/CLT%20355%20Mystical%20Rhetorics %20of%20Silence%20from%20Plotinus%20to%20John%20of%20the%20Cross.doc" CLT 355 Mystical Rhetorics of Silence from Plotinus to John of the Cross (Fall 2001) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/g0OFb2/CLT%20355%20On%20What%20Cannot %20Be%20Said.doc" CLT 355-03 On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Theology, Philosophy, and Literature (Spring 2000)

HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/beVMf6/CLT%20355%20Poetics%20and%20Politics %20of%20the%20Origin%20of%20Language.doc" CLT 355 Poetics and Politics of the Origin of Language (Spring 1999) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/hGdzLq/CLT%20355%20The%20Unnameable %20and%20the%20Sublime.doc" CLT/French 355 The Unnameable and the Sublime (Fall 1999) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/iLTtrG/CLT%20355%20Metaphor.doc" CLT/English 355 Metaphor (Spring 1998) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/eV8LuM/CLT%20350%20Applications%20and %20Emergencies%20of%20Literary%20Theories.doc" CLT 350 Postcolonial Criticism and Theory: Applications and Emergences of Literary Theories (team-taught with Margaret Doody) (Fall 1998) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/eV8LuM/CLT%20350%20Applications%20and %20Emergencies%20of%20Literary%20Theories.doc" CLT 350 The Soul: Applications and Emergencies of Literary Theories (team-taught with Margaret Doody) (Fall 1997) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/ggaidy/Fall%201996%20CLT%20327%20The %20Structuralist%20Paradigm%20and%20its%20Transformations.do" CLT 327 The Structuralist Paradigm and its Transformations (Spring 1997) HYPERLINK "http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/ehWV8c/Hermeneutics.doc" CLT / Philosophy 345 Hermeneutics (repeated 1992-1997)

PhD. Dissertations Directed: David Dark (Religious Studies): Insert Soul Here: The Witness Sacramental Poetics as Apocalyptic for the People (2011) Yong Chen (Religious Studies): "On the Rhetoric of Defining Confucianism as a Religion: A Hermeneutic Reading of the Controversy on Confucian Religiosity and its Significance to the Understanding of Chinese Tradition and Modernity" (2005) Donald Holman (Comparative Literature): "The Death of Dionysos: Formative Experience and Human Autonomy in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" (2004) Heather Garrett (French): "Nothing to Say. Disclosures of Silence in 20th Century French Narrative" (2004) Robert Scott Hubbard (Comparative Literature): "Original Sins: Philosophical Appropriations of Agency and Meaning in the Greek Tragedians" (2002) In Progress: Chance Woods (English) Xiaolun Qi (Comparative Literature) Menghun Goh (Religious Studies): New Testament and Political Theology: 1 and 2 Corinthians Alexandra Campana (German)

Ph.D. Dissertation Committees: David Dault (Divinity): "The Covert Magisterium: Theology, Textuality and the Question of Scripture" (2008) Claudia Schlee (German): "Poetry as Compass: Chaos, Complexity and the Creative Voice" (2007) Rachel Bauer (Spanish): "Madness and Laughter: Cervantes's Comic Vision in Don Quixote" (2007) James Burt Fulmer (Religious Studies): "Identities Bought and Sold, Identity Received as Grace: A Theological Criticism of and Alternative to Consumerist Understanding of the Self" (2006) Brian McGinnis (German): "Reading the Moral Code: Theories of Mind and Body in Eighteenth-Century Germany" (2006) Joshua Braley (Religious Studies): "Bringing God to Mind: Christian Theology in Light of the Critical Study of Religion" (2006) Justine Van Meter (Comparative Literature): "Writing the Dying and the Dead: Irishness, Jewishness and Gender" (2006) Andr Sousan (Divinity): "The Woman in the Garden of Eden: A Rhetorical-Critical Study of Genesis 2:4b-3:24 (2006) Azucena Garcia-Marcos (Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "Una Approximacion psychoanalytica a la obra de Francisco de Goya" (2006) Shirin Edwin (French): "Ngocier pour survivre: La reprsentation de lislam dans les productions romanesques francophones de lAfrique de l"Ouest (1950-2002)" (2005)

Apel Ygrek (Philosophy): "Virile Expenditure: A Study of Batailles Transgressive Erotics" (2004) Kathleen Costales (Spanish): "No Hay Cosa Como Callar: Una Edicon Critica" (2004) Deborah Barnard (French): "Marginality and Mixed Marriages in the Works of Albert Memmi" (2003) R. Philip OHara (Divinity): "Economics of the Basileia Tou Theou in Mark" (2002) Ccile Guillard (French): "Baudelaire malgr tout: La prsence de Baudelaire dans loeuvre de Ives Bonnefoy" (2002) Terresa Stricklen (Divinity): "Preaching and Theology in Light of Theological Education: The Early History of a Troubled Marriage or What Went Wrong How" (2001) Brett Davis (Philosophy): "On the Way to Gelassenheit: The Problem of the Will and the Possibility of Non-Willing in Heideggers Thought" (2001) Ken Himmelman (Comparative Literature): "'Beyond the Compass of Time': The Fragmented Universe and the Rise of Modern Science Fiction, 1600-1740" (1998) Darren Hutchinson (Philosophy): "A Song of Solipsism: Wittgenstein and the End of the World" (1996) Greg Carey (Religious Studies): "Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation of John" (1996) Gian Balsamo (Comparative Literature): "Legitimate Filiation and Gender Segragation: Law and Fiction in Texts by Derrida, Hegel, Joyce, Pirandello and Vico" (1994) In progress: Susan Safford (Religious Studies): "Intersections of Time: Readings of Simultaneity in the Book of Judges" Andrea Eder (German) Shaun Haskins (Comparative Literature) Maya Smith (Comparative Literature) MA Theses directed (or co-directed): Wong Kar Kei Jenny, The Challenge of Modernity and Italo Calvinos Literary Responses: An Examination of the Relationship between Humanity and the World and Literature as a Reconciling Force, External Examiner, University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities (2012) Lauren Smelser (Master Theological Studies): Christian Hermeneutics in the Now and the Not Yet of Gods Logos: Embodying Christ through Kenosis in Comparative Theological Readership (2010) Andrea Thornton (Religious Studies): Job and Philosophy (2010) Zachery Gershom (Divnity): Orthodox Akatathan Liturgy and Apophasis (2010) Eric Froom (Philosophy): Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and Philosophical Doubt (2007) Burt Fulmer (Interdisciplinary Studies): "Rene Girard and the Exorcism of the Possessed Consumer" (2006)

Natalia Mikailovitch (Comparative Literature): "Transforming the Language: Translation as Exile and Hermeneutic Dialogue" (2005) Robert Nasatir (Comparative Literature): "Burning Shadow: The Poetic Image of Federico Garca Lorca in English-Language Poetry" (2000) Laura Matter Fukeshima (Comparative Literature): "Reproducing Catullus: Translation and the Polymtria" (2001) Matt Burleson (Comparative Literature): "Traces of Heidegger in Crista Wolfs Cassandra" (2000) Michel Le Grand (Comparative Literature): "Modernist Poetics of Paul Valery, Pedro Salinas" (1995)

SERVICE (current representative activities) To Department: Organized Fireside Chat of poet Batrice Machet at McTyeire, October 13, 2009 Invited Zygmunt Baranski, Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge, for two lectures: Pasolinis Uccellini e Uccellacci: Histories of Italy/Histories of Cinema 9-30-2010 Whats so New about the Vita Nova? 10-1-2010 To College: Advisory Board of the Max Kade Center for German and European Studies Committee for Promotion to tenure of Prof. Richard McGregor To University: Faculty-in-residence at McTyeire International Hall (for Italian, German, French, and Spanish) To Profession: External Reviewer for internal transfers of staff to Philosophy within Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macao, for Dr. Wan, Dr. Jia, and Dr. Chen Executive Board Member of Dante Society Council of the Dante Society of America. Referee for Promotion to Full Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University Tenure Review Committee & Promotion to Associate Professor of Italian, Wayne State University Tenure Review Committee for Promotion to Associate Professor of Italian, Princeton University Referee for the Dante Prize (undergraduate essay contest) and Grandgent Prize (graduate essay contest) Referee of Grant Proposals for American Philosophical Association and Louisiana State Member of advisory board of Enthymema: Rivista di teoria, critica e filosofia della letteratura; and of Hermeneutica Reader of manuscripts for University of Toronto Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, SUNY Press, Fordham University Press, Philosophy of Rhetoric, Christianity and Literature, PMLA, Journal of Religion, Acta Academica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Sage Publications Consultant for Thomas Riggs & Company and The Gale Group (for Manifesto in Literature, Literature of Propaganda, Literature of Autobiography)

Cover endorsements for: Virginia Burrus, Mark D. Jordan, Karmen MacKendrick, Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010) Christine O'Connel Bauer, Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation: Passages to Freedom in the Divine Comedy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). Francis J. Ambrosio, Dante and Derrida: Face to Face (New York: SUNY Press, 2007) Jeremiah L. Alberg, Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses: Reading Scandalous Texts (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012) Wayne Cristaudo, A Philosophical History of Love (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2012) Gian Balsamo, Il libro del respiro (Italy: Robin Edizioni, 2012) http://www.ultimabooks.it/the-book-of-breathing

To Community: Member of artistic team for poetry workshops (ateliers dcriture) of the Scriptorium at LIsle-sur-Sorgue (May 10); the Festival Potique des Petits Toits du Monde (May 29-30), Noyersur-Gabron; and Festival Ex-Posie at Perigueux on June 30. (hired also as Professor of European Studies at the University of Hong Kong)

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