Joshua David Gonsalves (Ph.D.; NYU, 2002) works on British Romanticism, the Long Eighteenth-century and Nineteenth-century European Poetry, Literature & Culture. He has previously taught in the USA (New York University/Rice University) and Canada (Dalhousie University). Dr. Gonsalves is presently revising Keats Goes Global: Close Reading and the Geopolitics of Cultural Production for publication and is also at work on a genealogy of the cinema as a cultural mode for visualizing geopolitical conflict: Screening War: The Construction of “Geopolitics” in Pre-Cinematic Mass Culture: 1789-1914. His research and teaching interests include Psychoanalysis; Geopolitics and the History/Theory of War; (Pre) Cinema Studies; Continental Philosophy, Theory & Literary Criticism; and Animal Studies (supplemented by an extra-curricular interest in a Husky-Alsatian named Cyberia).
Selected Articles:
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“Byron’s Masque of the French Revolution: Sovereignty, Terror and Republican Identity in Marino Faliero and The Two Foscari,” in Byron and the
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Politics of Freedom and Terror, Eds. Matthew Green and Piya Pal-Lapinski (Palgrave; forthcoming 2010)
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- “Reading Idiocy in Wordsworth’s ‘The Idiot Boy,’” The Wordsworth Circle 38.3 (Summer 2007): 121-130.
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- “Problematic Figurations of the Nation as I-Land: A Phenomenological Report on Half-Knowledge from ‘Any Isle of Lethe Dull,’” Studies in
- Romanticism 45.4 (Summer 2006): 425-464.
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- “Byron Mon Prochain—Sade, Lautréamont, and the ‘Octopus of the Silken Glance’” Lord Byron—“Correspondance(s)” : The Proceedings of the
- Thirty Second Annual International Byron Conference. Paris: La Société Française des Études Byroniennes, 2008
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- “The Case of Antonin Artaud and the Possibility of Comparative (Religion) Literature” Modern Language Notes 119.5 (Comparative Literature
- Issue) (2004): 1033-1057.
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“What Makes Lord Byron Go? Strong Determinations—Public and Private—of Imperial Errancy” Studies in Romanticism, 41.1 (Spring 2002): 33-
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Selected Reviews:
Review of Paolo Cherchi Usai’s The Death of Cinema. History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age (University of California Press, 2001); published June, 2008 in The Nietzsche Circle: http://www.nietzschecircle.com/review2.html
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Review of Tom Cohen’s Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies. Volume 1: Secret Agents; Volume 2: War Machines (Minnesota, 2005), published
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