The Literary Theory Toolkit: A Compendium of Concepts and Methods is in print. For reviews and a tour of the contents, please check the link below. Amazon Books has excerpts on line, as does Wiley-Blackwell, the publisher.
Below is a YouTube Link to a response I made to Stanley Fish at a symposium held here in March entitled: Are the Humanities Good for Humanity? This links to part 6. Part 5 contains the very beginning few statements, some 11 minutes into that file. That earlier bit should come up in the right margin of YouTube's list of kindred files. I begin there by responding to five rationales of academic freedom. For clarity, rationale number one, which Fish supports, speaks to narrowly doing one's job as an instructor of materials that will equip students to master a field, and rationale number five speaks to the freedom to inquire into issues such as race, class, and gender, a freedom Fish would deny us under the rubric of "save the world on your own time." I argue that the first rationale wouldn't have bothered totalitarian regimes, and that rationale five isn't possible in a totalitarian society.This has to make us realize there is something wrong with Fish's axiology. Everything I say in part six responds to the text Fish distributed, but my main argument is that teaching can't be as restricted as Fish would contend. The talk was extemporized. Fish's text wasn't circulated in advance.
July 2012, Manchester, UK; Lecture on Milton at Renaissance Studies Conference.
October 13, 2011. "Statements" w/ Christina Soriano (dance) and Louis Golstein (piano). At Reynolda House, WFU.
Recent lectures in 2010:
Nov. 4, Moderator/Participant, Roudtable Discussion, Minor American Poetry Series. Evening Lecture: "The Mortification Thesis." Duke University
Sept. 24. Lecture: "Walter Benjamin's Bed" at the Uncertain Arrivals Conference, Wake Forest University, Reynolda House.
In June I presented "Obamanation and the Art of Kara Walker" at the London School of Economics, as part of their European Forum, and read a paper on Albert Ayler and Performance Art at the University of Reading. I presented "Derrida in the Photomat" at the conference, Performatives after Deconstruction, organized by Mauro Senatore, which was held at London Graduate School, Kingston University. Webcasts of some of these events can be accessed on this page.
In January of 2010 I performed with Elliott Sharp at White Box, NYC, in conjunction with the show Inmixing: Intermedia and Extradimensional Space.
In print:
A piece on the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta's love letters, entitled "Postiche," has just appeared in
ANA MENDIETA / HANS BREDER: A Relationship in Documents with essays by Klaus-Peter Busse and Herman Rapaport, ed. Heiner Hachmeister. Norderstedt 2010 (Dortmund Editions on Art, Intermedia-Studies Vol. 3).
In print this fall (2011) is an interview with Hans Breder in Performing Arts Journal, Johns Hopkins UP.
