Gregg Lambert

Dean's Professor of the Humanities
Founding Director of Humanities Center, Syracuse University 2008- Professor of English 2007-
Chair of English 2005-2008

Ph.D. (Comparative Literature with Critical Theory Emphasis) 1995, University of California at Irvine.

Office: 301 Tolley, Humanities Center 315-443-7192
Email: glambert@syr.edu

Interests: Comparative Literature, History of Criticism &Theory

Thesis Supervision: I am not currently accepting new dissertation advisees in the Department of English; however, I am available to assist M.A. and Ph.D. students in preparing for comprehensive examinations or dossier projects in the following areas: History of Criticism & Critical Theory, Philosophical and Psychoanalytic approaches to Film, Interdisciplinary Studies in Continental Philosophy, Religion, and Culture.

Recent Courses
Awards
Books and Monographs
Critical Editions
Editorial and Advisory Positions
Selected Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Edited Collections
Links to On-Line Resources and Audio File

Recent Courses

ETS 305: What Comes After Structuralism? (spring 2007)

ETS 320: Joyce and Beckett (spring 2008)

ENG 631: Introduction to Critical Theory (fall 2006)

ENG 825: Analytics of Power (fall 2005)

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Awards

Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, Pacific University, May 2008.

Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of English, Syracuse University, 1999-2000.

NEH Summer Fellow (Critical Theory Institute, Univ. of California, 1996).

Dorothy and Donald Strauss Dissertation and Thesis Fellowship Award (1995).

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Books and Monographs

Globalatinization: Of Christianism, Essentialism, and Euro-centricism in Our Philosophy (manuscript in preparation)

The Other Person and the Possible World (manuscript in preparation)

On the (New) Baroque . An expanded paperback edition of Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture (Continuum 2004), with new forward, afterward and appendix in "The Critical Studies in the Humanities Series" (Davies Publishing Group, September 2008).

Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (New York and London: Continuum Books, January 2007).

The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture . (New York and London: Continuum Books, January 2005).

The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (New York and London, Continuum Books, November 2002).

Report to the Academy: re the (new) Conflict of the Faculties , in "The Critical Studies in the Humanities Series," ed. Victor E. Taylor (Davies Group Publishers, August 2001); available in paperback from Amazon.com

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Critical Editions

Co-editor with Eugene B. Young, The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary (London: Continuum Books). In Preparation.

Co-editor with Aaron Levy, "Rrrevolutionnaire!": Conversations in Theory vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Slought Foundation, 2006).

Co-editor with Ian Buchanan, Deleuze and Space (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, July 2005).

Co-editor with Victor E. Taylor, Jean-François Lyotard: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, 3 Vols. (London: Routledge, January 2006).

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Editorial and Advisory Positions

Co-Editor, Deleuze Studies (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press)

Editorial Board, Deleuze Connections (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press)

Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Postmodernism (Routledge, U.K.)

Contributing Editor, Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory  

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Selected Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Edited Volumes

"Decrypting the 'Christian thinking of the flesh, tacitly, the caress, in a word, the Christian body' in Le Toucher-Jean-Luc Nancy," Sophia (forthcoming October 2008)

"Barroco y Neobarroco" (translated in Norwegian), Vagant (forthcoming September 2008)

"Emerson, or 'Man-Thinking'" in The Other Emerson, eds. Branka Arsic and Carry Wolfe (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).

"Schizoanalysis and the Cinema of the Brain" in Deleuze and Schizoanalysis of Cinema, eds. Buchanan and MacCormack (Continuum, August 2008).

"enemy (der Feind)," Angelaki: Theoretical Journal of the Humanities (12:3 2007), pp. 115-125.

"The Political Ontology of the friend (philos) " in Deleuze and Politics, eds. Ian Buchanan and Nick Thoburn (University of Edinburgh Press, 2008)

"De-Territorializing Psychoanalysis," in Deleuze, Derrida, Psychoanalysis (A Critical Theory Institute Book), ed. Gabriele Schwab ( New York, Columbia University Press, 2007).

"Sapare Aude?" in Symploke (2006).

" De-Facing Derrida ," in SubStance 34.1 (2005) 53-59.

"Ten Propositions on the Brain" (co-authored with Gregory Flaxman, UNC Chapel Hill), Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Volume 16 (2005).

"Expression" in Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts (London: Acumen, 2005), 31-41.

"Against Religion (without 'Religion'): A New Rationalist Reply to John D. Caputo's On Religion," Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. 5, no. 2, April 2004.

"Universal Hospitality," Cities Without Citizens, ed. Eduardo Cadava and Aaron Levy (Philadelphia: Slought Publications, 2004).

"Untouchable," Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments , ed. Yvonne Sherwood and Kevin Hart (London: Routledge, December 2004).

"On the Right to Desire, or Une Grande politique" Critical Horizons (Australia), Fall 2003.

" What Questions Fascinate Me? " "What do I Want to Know?" SubStance - Issue 100 (Volume 32, Number 1), 2003, pp. 24-28

"Conversation on 'The Future of Theory?" Symploke, Volume 11, No 1-2 (2003), special issue "Theory Trouble" ed. Ian Buchanan and Jeffrey Di Leo.

"The Philosopher and the writer: the question of style in philosophy," Between Deleuze and Derrida , ed. Paul Patton and John Protevi (Continuum Books, 2003).

"Deleuze and the Dialectic (a.k.a., Marx and Hegel)," Strategies (Vol. 15, no. 1, 2002), pp. 73-83.

"What Does Woman Graduate Students Want? John Guillory and that Obscure Object of English Desire," the minnesota review ("Academostars," ns.52-3, 2001), pp. 249-262.

"The Subject of Literature Between Derrida and Deleuze-law or life?" ANGELAKI (Vol. 5, no. 2, 2001), pp. 177-190.

"On Whitehead's Proposition, 'Life is Robbery': Prolegomena to Any Future Ethics ," Postmodern Secular Theology: Fragments of a Radical Tradition, ed. Clayton Crockett (London: Routledge Press, 2001).

"Literature Studies," "Literary Theory," "Hermeneutics," "Textuality," and "The Society of Control," Encyclopedia of Postmodernism (London: Routledge Press, 2001).

"On the Uses and Abuses of Literature for Life" (new edited version) in Deleuze and Literature , eds. Ian Buchanan and John Marks (Edinburgh : University of Edinburgh Press, 2001/ New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)

"Redemption: Lacan avec Marx," special section on psychoanalysis and religion, The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory , vol. 2, no. 2.

"'Shall We Gather at the River?' The Contemporary Eulogy of James Wright," Literature & Theology: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory and Criticism (Oxford University Press, summer 2000).

"Cinema and the Outside" in The Brain is the Screen: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema, ed. Gregory Flaxman ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).

"The Work of Art in the Age of Alien Reproduction," Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory, vol. 1, no. 1.

"On the Uses and Abuses of Literature for Life: Gilles Deleuze and the Literary Clinic," Postmodern Culture, vol. 8:3, May 1998.

"On the University in the Ears of its Publics," Crossings , spring 1997.

"The Deleuzian Critique of Pure Fiction," Sub-Stance, No. 84: winter 1997.

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Links to On-Line Resources and Audio Files

U.C. Berkeley Conference on Media and Movement, November 2006 (pdf and audio):

Special issue on "The Future of Theory?" co-edited with Victor E. Taylor (York College) in JCRT 4-2 (2003). See archives.

Read review of Becoming Visionary: Brian de Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses by Eyal Peretz, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2008.03.11)

Read "Against Religion without Religion" and John D. Caputo's Response, "Love Among the Deconstructables" in JCRT, 5-2 (2004).

Review of Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? by Claire Colebrook, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2008.03.13)

Review of Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze by Matthew Hyland, META_MUTE  (28 November, 2002).

Review of Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze by Marcel Swiboda in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 2004 12(1): 105-115.

Review of Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze by Damien Sutton in Visual Culture in Britain (2005)

Review of Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture by Monika Kaup in Modernism/Modernity , Vol 13, no. 1 (2006)

Review of Deleuze and Space by Mark Bontha, Annals of Association of American Geographers (2007).

Public Conversation with Jean-Michel Rabaté on " The Future of Theory ," November 1st, 2002 at SLOUGHT FOUNDATION, Philadelphia, PA. Audio file in Windows Media or Real player formats.

" John Guillory and that Obscure Object of English Desire ," Theorizing the Particular, Kelly Writer's House Forum, University of Pennsylvania , January 26th, 2000--anyone interested can listen to this audio file with Windows Media or Real-Player.

"The Work of Art in the Age of Alien Reproduction," Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory (1:1)-with reproductions of paintings by American-Cuban artist Jorge Sicre .

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