Current Project:
•What We Desire, We Shall Never Have: Calvino & Psychoanalysis: this project challenges many of our basic assumptions about Calvino and his writing, namely, that both are an expression of Enlightenment rationalism, cerebral, serene and detached. I look at the central roles played by repetition, sexual deadlock, desire, perversion, and theatricality in Calvino’s writing, and how their invisibility has conditioned Calvino criticism.
Publications
Books
Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture
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Articles
- “Gentlemen Prefer Hercules: Desire | Identification | Beefcake” in Camera Obscura (23:2, 69: 2008).
- “Memory & Masculinity in the Italian Peplum Film and Zach Snyder’s 300” from the Culture et Mémoire (Culture & Memory) conference at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France (May 2008): 239-46)
- “‘Tutto è zuppa!’ Making the Superego Enjoy in Calvino’s Il cavaliere inesistente” in Romanic Review (forthcoming, May 2009).
- “Italo Svevo and Charlie Chaplin: Dramatic Irony and the Psychoanalytic Stance” in American Imago 63.2 (2006): 183-200.
- “What We Desire, We Shall Never Have: Calvino, Zizek, Ovid” in Comparative Literature 58.1 (2006): 44-58.
- “From Monk to Monks: The End of Enjoyment in Eco’s The Name of the Rose,” in Symposium 59.2 (2005): 116-28.
- “Traveling Detectives: The ‘Logic of Arrest’ in Verne and Christie,” in Yale French Studies 108 (2005): 89-101.
- “The Real of Desire: Travel/Detection/Hitchcock/Antonioni,” in The Communication Review 6.4 (2003): 313-26.
- “Alessandro Baricco’s Seta: Travel, Ventriloquism & the Other,” in MLN 118.1 (2003): 209-36.
- “Traveling By Metonymy: Ugo Foscolo’s ‘A Zacinto,’” Annali d'Italianistica 20 (2002): 201-16.
- “‘La sua tragica incompiutezza’: Anxiety, Mis-Recognition and Ending in Gadda’s Pasticciaccio," MLN 116.1(2001): 130-49.
- “The Horizon of Literature: Epistemic Closure in Calvino’s I nostri antenati" in Forum Italicum 33.1 (1999): 213-23.
- “Il cristallo e il mare: L’enumeración caótica e l’epistemologia in Calvino e Gadda" in Forum Italicum 31.2 (1997): 407-22.
Responses and Reviews
- Review of Krajenbrink and Quinn, Eds., Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction in Comparative Literature Studies (forthcoming)
- “Am I Paranoid Enough?” (response to Emily Apter) in American Literary History 18.2 (Summer 2006): 390-93.
- Review of Albert Sbragia, Carlo Emilio Gadda and the Modern Macaronic, in the South Atlantic Review 62.4 (1997): 101-04.
- Review of Fernando Amigoni, La più semplice macchina: lettura freudiana del «Pasticciaccio» in Forum Italicum 30.1 (1996): 224-28
Encyclopedia Entries
- “Our Ancestors: Italo Calvino” in Cyclopedia of Literary Places (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2003): 867.
- “Pale Fire: Vladimir Nabokov” in Cyclopedia of Literary Places (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2003): 875-76.
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