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Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. Harvard 1997, M.A. Harvard 1990; B.A. Zaragoza (Spain) 1987.
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Research Interests: Literature and philosophy; modern and contemporary literature in Spanish; tragedy; poetry; ethical philosophy; psychoanalysis; ethics and politics.
Affiliations: International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Modern Language Association.
Fellowships/Honors: Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching, NYU, 2003; NYU Faculty Fellowship at the Remarque Institute for European Studies, Fall 2000; NYU Research Challenge Fund Grant, 1999-2000; Harvard University Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 1996.
Selected Works:
Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
“I Love to Hate my Life or the Allure of Guilt: A Response to Simon Critchley.” Theory & Event 7.2 (2004).
“The Grammar of Fate in Lorca’s Bodas de sangre.” Journal of Romance Studies 3.2 (2003).
“The Other of Reason in Quotation Marks: Nietzsche on Tragedy.” Philosophy & Social Criticism (forthcoming).
“Choreography of Fate: Lorca’s Reconfigurations of the Tragic.” In John Burt Foster and Wayne J. Froman, eds, Re-Staging Cultural Theory: Politics, Tragedy, History. London: Continuum (forthcoming).
“Against Tragic Sublime Sense” (under review).
“Self-Denying Creativity” (under review).
“A Politics Beyond Commitment: Levinas’s Heteronomous Autonomy” (under review).
“From Respect to Exposure: Levinas and Badiou” (under review).
Works in Progress:
Victims, Interlocutors, and Political Exposure; Ethical and Poetic Address: A Debt of Voice in Salinas and Levinas; One.
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