...Peggy Kamuf This article aligns moments from three of Derrida’s seminars and seeks to characterize the signature gesture of his teaching, which may be described as putting his teaching body, or corps enseignant , on an indivisible line supposed to divide mortal bodies from the bodies...

...Samir Haddad This article examines Derrida’s use of untranslatables as a tool for teaching in his seminars. Focusing specifically on two related clusters of terms that appear in the seminar sessions published in Of Hospitality—xenos/étranger /foreigner and hostis/hôte /host/guest—the author shows...

...Thomas Clément Mercier This article examines Jacques Derrida’s work of self-reflection on his own teaching practice by using as a guiding thread the problematics of reproduction in the seminars of the 1970s. The first part of the article examines the sequence of seminars taught by Derrida at École...

..., that develops a reading—from what he calls the “militant activist cell.” The militant activist cell aims for direct intervention; it aims, for instance, to abolish the death penalty. Derrida’s Death Penalty seminar teaches us much about the death penalty, but the death penalty, as read through the seminar, also...

...Adam R. Rosenthal In this article the author explores how the problem of the seminar enters into the work of Jacques Derrida. He shows how it emerges not only within the context of the teaching institution but also as a conceptual thematic with a history far in excess of the educational...

...Derek Attridge In the teaching and criticism of poetry, this essay argues, the dominant prosodic tradition, based on classical metrics, provides no way of analyzing and appreciating one of the longest-lasting and most effective verse forms in the English tradition. But using the beat prosody...

...Daniel Just While not all literary fictions teach us valuable truths about life and the world, this expectation is what makes most of us read them. Literary texts communicate their truths in various ways, but what all of them have in common is that their truths are irreducible to unequivocal...

... Chenoweth, director of the Bibliothèque Derrida series at the French publishing house Éditions du Seuil. This special issue of Poetics Today addresses two questions that are raised by this enterprise: First, how does the publication, mediatization, and mass dissemination of Derrida’s teaching transform his...

... in a dynamic process of change that involves aesthetic qualities as well as a power mechanism, Chinese scholars, under the influence of culturally specific practices of literary criticism, the Confucian principle of the golden mean, and the more recent Marxist teaching of dialectical thinking, refuse...

... of the real reader's “poetic experience” in his Principles of Literary Criticism . We exemplify this by developing a particular technique, used by Richards to teach poetry at Harvard, into an empirical study of the haiku form of poetry. In the second section, we explicate Richards's own empirical study...

... of the semi- nar. Both are concrete. Both, indeed, are real life. The first is Jacob s bio- chemical account of reproduction. The second element is teaching especially the concrete context of La vie la mort itself, both the scene of ProfessorDerrida teaching in his classroom and the document fromwhich he...

... is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Terrorism before the Letter.” Judith A. Deitch teaches medieval and Renaissance literature at York University, Toronto. Her articles have appeared in Other Voices, Other Views: Expanding the Canon in English Renaissance Studies (1999), Ovid...

... 2000 Notes on Contributors 6104 Poetics Today / 21:2 / sheet 213 of 214 Carmen García Cela teaches French culture and literature at the University of Sala- manca, Spain. Her Ph.D thesis is titled, ‘‘Nervures...

... Herman teaches literature in English and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. With Bart Vervaeck, he published Handbook of Narrative Analysis (2005). He is coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon (2012) and the coauthor of “Gravity’s Rainbow,” Domination, and Freedom (2013...

... special issue of Poetics Today. Peter Cosgrove teaches eighteenth-century literature at Dartmouth College. He has written a book on Edward Gibbon, Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in the Decline and Fall (1999). His other published works include articles on Edmund Burke...

... Notes on Contributors Els Andringa teaches comparative literature at Utrecht University in the Nether- lands. She has published widely on the empirical study of literature, psychology of reading, and historical reception research. Her current research focuses on the recep- tion of German...

.... Her earlier work focuses on the preliminary stages of her research on Pynchon’s texts. Her current research is on foregrounding in fictional narrative discourse. Göran Nieragden teaches English language, literature, and culture at Cologne Uni- versity. He has published three books, many articles...

.... J. H. Crone is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Department of English at the University of Sydney who teaches literary studies and creative writing. Crone is the author of Our Lady of the Fence Post (2016). Ewan James Jones is associate professor in English at the University...

... the spatial, political, and gendered dimensions of her own displacements and migrations. A former Lady Davis Fellow in the English Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she currently teaches critical theory, South African and Vic- torian literature there. Jonathan Crewe is professor of English...

...) and research assistant at the German Department of Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany. In her teaching, she focuses on critical media analysis in contemporary German culture. As speaker of the Game Studies Working Group at GGK, she organizes interdisciplinary workshops on the academic study...