“The Time Is Out of Joint”: Hamlet, Messianism, and the Specter of Apocalypse

Russell Samolsky is an assistant professor of Anglophone literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Kafka, Coetzee, and Derrida. He is currently working on two book projects: Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Modern Culture, which examines the relationship between an apocalyptic text and a future catastrophic event, and Killing Dogs, which examines the place of the dog in terms of the contemporary theoretical question of the animal.