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DR. JOSHUA DAVID GONSALVES
Assistant Professor
Department of English
American University of Beirut
P.O. Box 11-0236
Riad El Solh, Beirut
1107 2020
Lebanon
Tel: 961-1-350000 ext. 4122
Home: 961-1-347590
Email: [email protected]
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT :
Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut, English Department: 2009Assistant Professor, Rice University, English Department: 2005-09.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, English Department, 2003-2005.
Instructor, New York University, English Department, 1999-2001.
EDUCATION :
Ph.D., English Literature, New York University, 1997-2002.
M.A., English Literature, Boston University, 1996-1997.
B.A., Western Society & Culture, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University, Montreal.
B.A., magna cum laude, Honors in English Literature, Concordia University, 1991-95.
Dissertation :
Title: “Keats Goes Global: The Geopolitics of Poetic Production.”
Dissertation Committee: Paul Magnuson (Director), Anselm Haverkamp, Mary Poovey.
TEACHING INTERESTS :
Romantic, Long 18th-Century, and 19th-Century British Poetry, Literature, and Culture.
Continental Philosophy, Theory, and Literary Criticism; Psychoanalysis; Geopolitics and
the History/Theory of War; (Pre-)Cinema Studies.
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SELECTED AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS :
Mellon Grant, Center of Arts and Humanities, AUB (September 2015-June 2016):
The Brutal Melodrama and the Generic Possibility of Politics: Amerika /
Germany / Egypt / Russia
Research Residency, Tokyo Wonder Site Institute of Contemporary Art and International
Cultural Exchange (January 7-February 2, 2016):
"Resisting the (Neo-)Liberal World Order: Destination Tokyo and Hollywood Star
Wars"
AUB University Research Board Research Grant (July 1-, 2011-June 30, 2012):
“Romantic Geopolitics: Situating Lord Byron in the Greek landscape of the War
for Independence”
Travel Grant for AUB Faculty, Summer (2011-2012-2013-2014).
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and
Research Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) Travel Grant,
Spring (2011-2013)
Humanities Research Center Summer Seminar Grant, Research Triangle, North
Carolina: “Reading Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil,” July 5-10, 2009.
Mosle Research Grant, Rice University, 2005-2009.
Rice English Department Overseas Travel/Research Grant, Summer, 2006/2007.
Killam Trust for Advanced Study Archival Research Grant, 2005/Travel Grant, 2003.
Halsband Fellowship for Eighteenth Century Studies, New York University, 2001-2.
MacCracken Fellowship, New York University, 1997-2001.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS :
Books:
Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant: Pressing Race, Class and Ethnicity into Service in “Amerika,”
(Zero Books; 2015)
Chapters in Collections:
Solicited Chapter: “Byron’s Masque of the French Revolution: Sovereignty, Terror and
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Republican Identity in Marino Faliero and The Two Foscari,” in Byron and the
Politics of Freedom and Terror, Eds. Matthew Green and Piya Pal-Lapinski
(Palgrave, 2011).
Solicited Chapter: “‘On the Other Side’ of Inland Empire” in David Lynch in Theory,
Ed. François-Xavier Gleyzon (Charles University Press, Prague: Litteraria
Pragnesia, 2010).
Articles:
“Swinburne reads Keats: Prostitution, Pornography and the Decadence of Aesthetic
Critique,” Cogent Arts & Humanities (2015) 2: 1006422.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2015.1006422
“The Encrypted Prospect: Existentialist Phenomenology, Deconstruction and Speculative
Realism in ‘To Autumn,’” European Romantic Review 24.3 (2013): 287-295.
“Reading Idiocy in Wordsworth’s ‘The Idiot Boy,’” The Wordsworth Circle 38.3
(Summer 2007): 121-130.
“Problematic Figurations of the Nation as I-Land: A Phenomenological Report on HalfKnowledge from ‘Any Isle of Lethe Dull,’” Studies in Romanticism 45.4
(Summer 2006): 425-464.
Solicited Article: “Byron—In-Between Sade, Lautréamont, and Foucault: Situating the
Canon of ‘Evil’ in the Nineteenth-Century,” Romanticism on the Net: An
International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic Studies, 43
(August 2006). A Special Issue: Lord Byron’s Canons:
“The Case of Antonin Artaud and the Possibility of Comparative (Religion) Literature,”
Modern Language Notes 119.5 (Comparative Literature Issue) (2004): 10331057.
“What Makes Lord Byron Go? Strong Determinations—Public and Private—of Imperial
Errancy,” Studies in Romanticism, 41.1 (Spring 2002): 33-64.
Conference Proceedings:
“Genres of Warfare: Byron Besieges Siege Mentalities,” in N. Oueijan (Ed.) Lord Byron
and Genre: 38th Annual International Byron Conference Proceedings. Beirut:
Notre Dame University Press, 2013.
“Thallasophobia; or the Oceanic Fear of Financialization in Frank Norris’s The
Octopus and The Pit,” Forthcoming in Conference Proceedings for International
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American Studies Association, 6th World Congress. Szczecin, Poland (3-6
August).
”Typological Revisions of The Sack of Rome in Byron's The Deformed Transformed”
‘Byron and Latin Culture’: Conference Proceedings for 37th Annual International
Byron Conference: http://www.internationalbyronsociety.org/
index.php?option=com_content&task =view&id=49&Itemid=29
“Byron Mon Prochain—Sade, Lautréamont, and the ‘Octopus of the Silken Glance’”
Lord Byron—“Correspondance(s)”: The Proceedings of the Thirty Second
Annual International Byron Conference. Paris: La Société Française des Études
Byroniennes, 2008.
PUBLICATIONS / WORK IN PROGRESS :
Book-length Project I: Invasion Panic: Military Historicism and British Romanticism—
1805-1835
Book-length Project II: Brutal Melodrama: A Geopolitics of the Cinematic Ikon
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS :
“Figurations of the Octopus—from England to Japan: Mapping the Romantic Conflict
Between Privacy and Society”
Romantic Connections: NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism)
Conference, University of Tokyo (June 13–15, 2014).
“Harmony Korine’s Springbreakers, Hip-Hop Culture and Post-Racial Cinematics”
Invited presentation at Studi europei, americani e interculturali Department at
Sapienza University of Rome (April 8, 2014).
“Derrida and Badiou on Plato on Art: From Mimesis to Malevich” (invited guest
speaker) Contemporary Dialogues with Ancient Thought: 10th Annual De
Philosophia Graduate Student Conference, University of Ottawa (5 April, 2014);
Also presented to the Philosophy Department at American University of Beirut,
May 28, 2014.
Ikon Contra Modernity: Genealogies of the Moving Image in Tarkovsky and
Malevich:
Ten-Week Seminar: Beirut Art Center (November 14, 2013-February 6, 2014).
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“Functional Differentiation and the Systematic Bias of Poetic Knowledge”
Supernumerary Conference: Romanticism and Knowledge: A conference
sponsored by NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism)
and the Gesellschaft fur englische Romantik. Munich, Germany (10-13 October,
2013).
“Thalassophobia, or the Oceanic Fear of Financialization in Frank Norris’s The
Octopus and The Pit”
International American Studies Association, 6th World Congress. Szczecin,
Poland (3–6 August)
“Anglo-American Sovereignty and the Anglophile Containment of Queer Desire [The
Dark Knight Rises]”
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies
and Research (CASAR) Conference: Sexual Sovereignty: Citizenship,
Governmentality, and Territory, American University of Beirut (13-15 March,
2013).
“The Encrypted Prospect: “To Autumn”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2012,
University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (15-19 August, 2012).
“Byronic Genres of War and the Reading “Statistics, Tactics, Politics and Geography”
38th Annual International Byron Conference (‘Lord Byron and Genre’) Notre
Dame University–Louaize, Lebanon (1–6 July 2012).
“The Byronic Refusal of Latin War Culture in The Deformed Transformed”
37th Annual International Byron Conference (‘Byron and Latin Culture’),
Faculty of English, University of Valladolid, Spain (27 June -01 July 2011).
“Mediterraneanizing The Roman (English) Empire: Re-Situating Antony and Cleopatra”
Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient, American University of Beirut (May 4-6, 2011).
“Poulpe Fictions: Nineteenth-Century Genealogies of Thallasophobia”
The Hungry Ocean: Maritime Literature Conference at the John Carter Brown
Library, Brown University (April 21-3, 2011; research in the emergent field of
The New Thallasology or Ocean Studies).
“Byron’s Best Friend: Of Men, Dogs and Cruelty”
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2008, San Francisco (December 27-30).
“Badgering Domestication: Of Men, Dogs and Cruelty”
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2008, San Francisco (December 27-30).
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“Absolute Antipodes? Byron, Austen and the Possibility of Romantic Diversity”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2008,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (August 21-24).
“Byron’s Venetian Masque of the French Revolution: Sovereignty, Terror and
Republican Identity in Marino Faliero”
33rd Annual International Byron Conference (‘Byron & Identity’), Venice
International University, San Servolo, Venice (July 10-12, 2007).
“The Geopolitics of Byron’s Venetian Drama”
5th Annual Messolonghi Byron Society Conference (‘Byron: Humanism,
Liberalism, Philhellenism”), Byron Research Center, Messolonghi, Greece
(June 25-30, 2007).
“Living with Keats/Reading with Swinburne: Prostitution, Pornography and The Poetics
of The Obscene Quotidian”
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2006, Philadelphia (December 27-30).
“Johns, Keats and Swinburne:Prostitution and Pornography as Technologies of Gender”
Joint Conference: NASSR (North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism)/NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association), 2006,
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana (August 31-September 3, 2006).
“Byron Mon Prochaine—Reading Sade in British Romanticism”
32nd Annual International Byron Conference (‘Correspondence’) Université de
Paris, Sorbonne (June 14-17, 2006).
“Secularizing ‘Evil’: Richardson, Sade, and the Residuum of Religion in the Late
Eighteenth Century”
ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Montréal, Quebec
(37th Annual Meeting; March 30-April 2, 2006).
“Idiocy at the Origin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and the Primordial Deviance of
Poetry”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2005, Université
de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec (August 13-17 2005).
Constricting Romanticism: ‘Monk’ Lewis’s ‘The Anaconda’”
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2004, Philadelphia (December 27-30).
“The Cosmopolitical Poverty of Romantic Historicism”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2004,
University of Colorado, Boulder (September 9-12, 2004).
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“Dis-placing Keats/Re-placing Hitchcock (Rape) in The Eve of St. Agnes”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2003, Fordham
University, New York City (August 1-5, 2003).
“Historiographicaporia—The Ir-resolution of Romantic Reflexivity”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2002,
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (August 22-25, 2002).
“Affecting the Subject/Circulating Affects: Keats’s Undoing of Negative Capability and
the Aesthetic Ideology of Taste”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2001,
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (August 16-19, 2001).
“William Blake’s Geographical Negotiation of Nationalism: ‘he labours and he
mourns!’”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2000, Tempe,
Arizona (September 14-17, 2000).
*(Awarded Letter of Commendation by NASSR 2000 executive committee).
SELECTED CONFERENCE AND PANEL WORK :
Member of Organizing Committee, Mellon Grant, Center of Arts and Humanities
Conference:
Do Not Resuscitate: Critique and the Untranslatability of History (May 12-14,
2016).
Inviting leading scholars on Melodrama to a Panel entitled: Cinema, Generic Universals
and the Un-representable Brutality of History, featuring Laura Heins, author of
Nazi Film Melodrama, Elizabeth Anker, author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama
and the Politics of Freedom, and Carla Marcantonio, author of Global
Melodrama.
Member of Organizing Committee, 38th Annual International Byron Conference
Beirut, Summer 2012 (July 1-6).
Conference Organizer, THE BIRDS NOW! A symposium on the present state of
Hitchcock criticism: The case of The Birds (1963). Invited speakers: Lee
Edelman, Susan Lurie and Tom Cohen (April 13-14, 2007, Rice University Media
Center).
UNIVERSITY SERVICE :
2010: Produced English Literature Program Assessment Plan for English Department,
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American University of Beirut
2010-2015: Undergraduate Advisor, English Department, AUB.
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2006: Member of intra-departmental committee for developing new courses in the
Humanities, Rice University.
ACADEMIC SERVICE :
Consulting Editor, The Explicator, 2007-.
Reader, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 2010-.
Comparative Literature, 2010-.
MEMBERSHIPS :
Modern Language Association
International Byron Society
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
LANGUAGES :
Mother tongue: English
Research Languages: French (speaking and reading knowledge); German (reading)
LETTERS OF REFERENCE :
Helena Michie, Professor of English, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor in Humanities,
Rice University: [email protected]
Cary Wolfe, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University:
[email protected]
Marshall Brown, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of
Washington: [email protected]
Professor Paul Magnuson, Dissertation Director, NYU (English Department): R.I.P.
Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities; Director, Institute
for the History of the Production of Knowledge (NYU),
New York University (English Department): [email protected]
Professor Anselm Haverkamp, Emiritus, New York University (English
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Department)/ Viadrina European University at Frankfurt (Oder)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia
University (Department of Comparative Literature): [email protected]
Professor Marilyn Gaull, Boston University (English Department): [email protected]
University Distinguished Professor Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona (English
Department): [email protected]
Professor Laurence Lockridge, New York University (English Department):
[email protected]