{"id":46,"date":"2012-02-19T14:31:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T19:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2024-02-10T05:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T10:13:31","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/homepage\/cv-franke-2024\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4070\">CV Franke 2024<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>William Franke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/french-italian\/faculty\/william-franke\/\">https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/french-italian\/faculty\/william-franke\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Department of French and Italian \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 email:\u00a0 william.franke@vanderbilt.edu<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 telephone: (615) 322-6900<\/p>\n<p>Nashville, Tennessee\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fax: (615) 322-6909<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACADEMIC DEGREES<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>1988-91\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stanford University, Ph. D. in Comparative Literature<\/p>\n<p>(Thesis: <em>Dante\u2019s Divinatory Hermeneutic: Towards a Poetics of Religious Revelation<\/em>. Committee: Jeffrey Schnapp, John Freccero, Robert Harrison, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht)<\/p>\n<p>1986-88\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University of California at Berkeley, M.A. in Comparative Literature<\/p>\n<p>1978-80\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oxford University, M.A. in Philosophy and Theology<\/p>\n<p>1974-78\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Williams College, B.A. in Philosophy, <em>summa cum laude<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EMPLOYMENT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>1991 &#8211; present\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <u>Vanderbilt University<\/u> (USA)<\/p>\n<p>Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian<\/p>\n<p>and Professor of Religious Studies<\/p>\n<p>2012 &#8211; 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <u>University of Macao<\/u> (China, SAR) (concurrent with Vanderbilt appointment)<\/p>\n<p>Professor Catedr\u00e1tico and Head of Philosophy and Religious Studies<\/p>\n<p>2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <u>University of Hong Kong<\/u>, Professor of European Studies with tenure [declined]<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 International Visiting Appointments and Teaching Abroad<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting Professor (Profesorado Internacional), <u>University of Navarra<\/u> (Spain), Departamento de Filosof\u00eda (Philosophy Department), Facultad de Filosof\u00eda y Letras + research fellow of Instituto Cultura y sociedad (ICS), Proyecto Sociedad Civil y Religi\u00f3n, Spring, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Philosophy Department, <u>University of Frankfurt<\/u>, Block-Seminar: \u201cApophatische Theologie und neuzeitliche Philosophie,\u201d Summer Semester 2016<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Fellow in Philosophy and Religions, <u>University of Macao<\/u> (China), Fall 2011<\/li>\n<li>Research Scholar in Residence, <u>University of Salzburg<\/u> (Austria), Summer 2008<\/li>\n<li>Professor of French in Residence, <u>Vanderbilt-in-France<\/u>, Aix-en-Provence, Spring and Fall 2008<\/li>\n<li>Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and Study of Religion,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>University of Salzburg<\/u>, Center for Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions<\/p>\n<p>(Zentrum Theologie Interkulturell und Studium der Religionen), 2006-07<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, <u>University of Hong Kong<\/u>, Fall 2005<\/li>\n<li>Faculty, <u>Collegium Phaenomenologicum<\/u>, Perugia, Italy, Summer, 1992, 1993<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS: \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fellowships<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><u>Institute for Culture and Society<\/u><\/em> (ICS), University of Navarra, Spring 2020<\/li>\n<li><em><u>Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung<\/u><\/em>, Full-year research fellowship in Germany, 1994-95<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(affiliated with Universit\u00e4t Potsdam, sponsored by Prof. Dr. Helena Harth)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><u>Bogliasco Foundation<\/u><\/em> (Genova, Italy), Fellow in Philosophy, Spring 2006<\/li>\n<li><em><u>Camargo Foundation<\/u><\/em> (Cassis, France), Residential Research Fellowship, Fall 2000<\/li>\n<li><em><u>Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities<\/u><\/em> (Vanderbilt), Fellow, 1995-96<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(year-long weekly seminar on the Millennium, with stipend)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><u>Stanford Fellowship<\/u><\/em> (<em>in lieu<\/em> of New Century Fellowship at University of Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and University Fellowship at Yale), 1988-91<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><u>John E. Moody Scholarship<\/u><\/em>, Oxford University, 1978-80<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Honors and Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honorary Professor (<em>Profesore Honoris Causa<\/em>), 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Agora Hermeneutica<\/em>, The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hermes Award: Book of the Year in Phenomenological Hermeneutics,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Agora Hermeneutica<\/em>, The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH), 2021<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HolyLit: Religion and Literature, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin &amp; Harvard University,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fellow, 2016-present<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH), Senior Fellow, 2015-21<\/li>\n<li>Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, Certificate of Appreciation, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Dante Society Executive Council, by general election of the Dante Society of America, 2007-2010<\/li>\n<li>Rosenberg Poetry Prize, UC Berkeley, 1987<\/li>\n<li>Skeat-Whitfield Essay Prize in English, Oxford University, 1979<\/li>\n<li>John W. Miller Prize in Philosophy, Williams College, 1978<\/li>\n<li>Phi Beta Kappa, 1977<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Grants and Stipends<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multi-Year Research Grant, Level IV (highest) 1,500,000 MOP (= 152,000 Euros or $188,000 USD) from Macao Government for \u201cApophatic Paths from Europe to China\u201d research project (2014-17)<\/li>\n<li>Start-Up Research Grant, 150,000 MOP (=18,800 USD), University of Macao, 2013<\/li>\n<li>Research Scholar Grant for translation into German of <em>Poetry and Apocalypse<\/em>,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vanderbilt University Research Council, Summer 2008-09<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research Grant for<em> On What Cannot Be Said<\/em>, Vanderbilt University Research Council, 2002<\/li>\n<li>Travel Awards from the Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici, Naples, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998<\/li>\n<li>Direct Research Support Grant, Vanderbilt University Research Council, Summer 1996<\/li>\n<li>Summer Research Grant, Vanderbilt University Research Council, Italy 1992<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Books (Single-Authored)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Dantologies: Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New York: Routledge, 2023 (forthcoming)<\/p>\n<p>Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Divine Vision of Dante\u2019s <\/em>Paradiso<em>: The Metaphysics of Representation<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021 (304 + xx pages)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Dante\u2019s <\/em>Vita Nuova<em> and the New Testament: <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021 (299 + xix pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Dante\u2019s <\/em>Paradiso<em> and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought:<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New York: Routledge, 2021 (334 + xxii pages)<\/p>\n<p>Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>On the Universality of What is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020 (450 pages + xii)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Apophatic Paths from Europe to China: Regions Without Borders<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Albany: SUNY (State University of New York) Press, 2018 (246 + xxii pages),<\/p>\n<p>Series on Chinese Philosophy and Culture, edited by Roger Ames<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cascade Companions series, Cascade Books Imprint<\/p>\n<p>Eugene, Oregon: Wipf &amp; Stock Publishers, 2017 (103 + x pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Columbus: The Ohio State University Press: 2016 (256 + xii pages)<\/p>\n<p>Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies series, edited by Lori Branch<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Revelation of Imagination: <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From Homer and the Bible through Virgil and Augustine to Dante<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015 (424 + xii pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Philosophy of the Unsayable <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014 (384 + viii pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Dante and the Sense of Transgression: \u2018The Trespass of the Sign\u2019 <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>London and New York: Continuum [Bloomsbury Academic], 2013<\/p>\n<p>Invited for New Directions in Religion and Literature Series,<\/p>\n<p>edited by Mark Knight and Emma Mason (200 + xv pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stanford: Stanford University Press: 2009 (211 + xiv pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Translated into German by Ursula Liebing and Michael Sonntag as:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dichtung und Apokalypse: Theologische Erschliessungen der dichterischen Sprache<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aus dem Amerikanischen von Ursula Liebing und Michael Sonntag<\/p>\n<p>Salzburger Theologische Studien Band 39 (<em>Interkulturell<\/em> 6)<\/p>\n<p>Innsbruck: Tyrolia Verlag, 2011 (216 pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>On What Cannot Be Said<\/em>: <em>Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Edited with Theoretical and Critical Essays by William Franke<\/p>\n<p>Vol. I: Classic Formulations (401 + xi pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>On What Cannot Be Said<\/em>: <em>Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Edited with Theoretical and Critical Essays by William Franke<\/p>\n<p>Vol. II: Modern and Contemporary Transformations (480 + viii pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Dante\u2019s Interpretive Journey<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 (242 + xi pages)<\/p>\n<p>Religion and Postmodernism series, edited by Mark C. Taylor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Edited Volumes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Sprache der Migration \u2013 Migration der Sprache. Sprachidentit\u00e4ten und transkulturelle Literatur im Zeitalter der Globalisierungsprozesse, <\/em>XIV. Kongressakten der Internationalen Vereinigung f\u00fcr Germanistik (IVG), Palermo 2021 (Bd.7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hg. von (edited by) Sandro M. Moraldo, Max Graff und William Franke.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive<\/em>. Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung f\u00fcr Germanistik (IVG), Bd. 7, hg. v. Laura Auteri, Natascia Barrale, Arianna Di Bella u. Sabine Hoffmann (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Edited by Nahum Brown and William Franke<\/p>\n<p>London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 (327 pages)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Articles and Essays<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(In press or under contract and awaiting publication)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"164\">\n<li>\u201cJustice and Mercy as Spectacle in the Heaven of Jupiter\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Giustizia e misericordia nell\u2019et\u00e0 di Dante<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Alessandria: Edizioni dell&#8217;Orso, 2023), forthcoming<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"163\">\n<li>\u201cDante and Islamic Philosophy: The Apophatic Connection at the Source of Modern Thought,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Dante und Islam<\/em>, ed. Kyuhee Park and Aurelia Maruggi, <em>Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p>forthcoming in 2024<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"162\">\n<li>\u201cApophatic Paths from Europe to China: Method and Mysticism in Intercultural Philosophy\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Mysticism<\/em>, in series <em>Routledge Handbooks in Religion,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>eds. Louise Nelstrop and Saiko Yazaki<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"161\">\n<li>\u201cParadiso XXVII. Heavenly Glory and Human Misery:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Compenetration of the Abject and the Exalted\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>California Lectura Dantis,<\/em> eds. Allen Mandelbaum and Anthony Oldcorn (Berkeley: University of<\/p>\n<p>California Press, forthcoming)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"160\">\n<li>\u201cNot War, nor Peace. Are War and Peace Mutually Exclusive Alternatives?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>War: Hot, Cold\u2026 &amp; Tepid?<\/em> Special Issue of <em>Continental Thought and Theory,<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cindy Zeiher and Mike Grimshaw<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"159\">\n<li>\u201cNegative Theology and Theophany in Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em><em>,<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Verbum Vitae <\/em>41\/1 (2023):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"158\">\n<li>\u201cPerspective Chapter: Liberal Arts Education Worldwide Ltd. Inc. \u2013<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Unspeakable Basis of Comparative Humanities,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>in <em>Multiculturalism and Interculturalism,<\/em> ed. Muhammad Mohiuddin,<\/p>\n<p>Sreenivasan Jayashree and Tareque Aziz (IntechOpen, 2023), 1-15<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"157\">\n<li>\u201cAfterword\u201d to <em>A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible,<\/em> ed. Steven E. Knepper, Forward<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Cyril O\u2019Regan, Afterward William Franke (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2023)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"156\">\n<li>\u201cIrony,\u201d commissioned article, major entry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Chaucer Encyclopedia<\/em> (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), eds. Richard Neuhauser, Vincent Gillespie, Jessica Rosenfeld, and Katie Walter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"155\">\n<li>\u201cProlegomena to a Speculative Criticism of Literature,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Analecta Hermeneutica<\/em> 14\/2 (2022): 194-205<\/p>\n<p>Commencement, Continuation, Conversation: Commencement Addresses<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"154\">\n<li>\u201cTheory and Theology as Driving Forces in the Globalization of Dante,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><em>La mondializzazione di Dante, I Europa<\/em>, Atti del Convegno Internazionale<\/p>\n<p>(Nancy, 7-8 ottobre 2021), eds. Antonella Braida, Joseph Cadeddu, and Giuseppe<\/p>\n<p>Sangirardi (Ravenna: Longo, 2022), 211-30<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"153\">\n<li>\u201cMuslim Traditions of Learned Ignorance: Apophatic Paths in Islam,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Critical Muslim<\/em> 42, Summer (2022): 61-75<\/p>\n<p>Special Issue on Ignorance, ed. Ziauddin Sardar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"152\">\n<li>\u201c<em>Hamlet<\/em> and the Philosophical Interpretation of Literature,\u201d <em>Phainomena<\/em> 120\/21 (2022): 213-30<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Special Issue on Hermeneutics and Literature<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"151\">\n<li>\u201cEinleitung: Sprache der Migration \u2013 Migration der Sprache. Sprachidentit\u00e4ten und transkulturelle<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Literatur im Zeitalter der Globalizierungsprozesse,\u201d with Max Graff and Sandro Moraldo,<\/p>\n<p><em>Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive. Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung f\u00fcr Germanistik<\/em> (IVG), Bd. 7, hg. v. Laura Auteri, Natascia Barrale, Arianna Di Bella u. Sabine Hoffmann<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"150\">\n<li>\u201cDie Aufgabe der Literatur in der globalisierenden Welt, oder Begegnung mit dem Unvergleichbarem:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Walter Benjamin und die Weltliteratur,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Jahrbuch f\u00fcr Internationale Germanistik<\/em>, Sonderausgabe 7 (2022): 569-80,<\/p>\n<p><em>Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung f\u00fcr Germanistik (IVG) (Bd. 7),<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Laura Auteri, Natascia Barrale, Arianna Di Bella, Sabine Hoffmann<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"149\">\n<li>\u201cIl sacro irriconoscibile: Universalit\u00e0 cognitiva tra scienza e discipline umanistiche,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>in <em>Quel che resta del sacro: Tra spiritualit\u00e0 e neuroscienze<\/em>, eds. Andrea Aguti,<\/p>\n<p>Giorgio Sandrini, Walter Minella, Andrea Loffi, Paolo Mazzarello<\/p>\n<p>(Milan: Mimesis, 2022), 191-232<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"148\">\n<li>\u201cApophatic Ignorance and its Applications,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies,<\/em> 2<sup>nd<\/sup> ed.<\/p>\n<p>eds. Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey<\/p>\n<p>(New York: Routledge, 2022), 26-35<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"147\">\n<li>\u201cRevelation: Mallarm\u00e9 and the Negativity of Prophetic Revelation in Modern Literature,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>in <em>Literature and Religious Experience, <\/em>ed. Matthew J. Smith and Caleb D. Spencer<\/p>\n<p>(London: Bloomsbury, 2022), 21-38<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"146\">\n<li>\u201cModernist Re-makings of Prophetic Poetry by Pound and Eliot\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual<\/em> 4 (2022): 105-120,<\/p>\n<p>Special Issue: \u201cThe Waste Land at 100,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>eds. Frances Dickey, Julia Daniel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"145\">\n<li>\u201cDante\u2019s Theology and Contemporary Thought: Recovering Transcendence?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Forum Italicum<\/em> 55\/2 (2021): 627-41<\/p>\n<p>Special Issue in honor of the seventh centennial of Dante\u2019s death,<\/p>\n<p>eds. Rachel Jacoff and Lino Pertile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"144\">\n<li>\u201cAmphibolies of the Postmodern: Hyper-Secularity or the Return of the Religious?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Sacred and the Everyday: Comparative Approaches to Literature, Religious and Sacred<\/em>,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Stephen Morgan (Macau: University of Saint Joseph Academic Press, 2021), 9-33<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTanto onesta, tanto gentile pare,\u201d in <em>Citar Dante: Espressioni dantesche nell\u2019Italiano di oggi<\/em>, eds.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Irene Chirico, Paolo Dainotti, and Marco Galdi (Athens: ETP Books, 2021), 272-75.<\/p>\n<p>(Lectura Dantis Metelliana, 2021), Saggi e critici 11<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"142\">\n<li>\u201cRepresenting the Other: Dante, Duns Scotus, and the Crisis of Representation in the Modern Age\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Dante and the Other<\/em>, ed. Aaron Daniels (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 51-71,<\/p>\n<p>Psychology and the Other book series<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"141\">\n<li>\u201cWhy an Open or \u2018Public\u2019 Sphere is Necessary to Civil Society and its Entanglement with Religion\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Epilogue to <em>Public Sphere and Religion: An Entangled Relationship in History, Education, and Society,<\/em> ed. Carl Antonius Lemke (Hildesheim: Olmes, 2020), 230-49<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"140\">\n<li>\u201cPoetry as Prophecy: From Anthropological Origins to Postmodern Apocalypses,\u201d in<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Prophetic Witness and the Reimagining of the World: Poetry, Theology and Philosophy in Dialogue<\/em>, eds. Mark S. Burrows, Hilary Davies, Josephine von Zitzewitz,<\/p>\n<p>vol. V of \u201cThe Power of the Word\u201d (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 9-30<\/p>\n<p>(keynote speech for The Power of the Word International Conference V, Regent\u2019s Park College, University of Oxford, September 2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"139\">\n<li>\u201cEastern and Western Apophatic Paths between Pre-Modern Divinity and Post-Modern Secularity,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Tamkang Review: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies<\/em> 50\/2 (2020): 3-30<\/p>\n<p>(keynote speech for Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies [TACMRS], National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, October 2018)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"138\">\n<li>\u201cDe Dante \u00e0 Mallarm\u00e9 \u00e0 travers l\u2019<em>Hamlet<\/em> de Shakespeare: N\u00e9gativit\u00e9 de la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation po\u00e9tico-<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>proph\u00e9tique dans la modernit\u00e9,\u201d <em>Dante and Shakespeare: Cosmologie, politique, po\u00e9tique, <\/em>eds, Pascale Drouet and Isabelle Battesti (Paris: \u00c9diteurs Classiques Garnier, 2020), 65-83<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"137\">\n<li>\u201cThe Vision of Language in Paradiso XVIII in Light of Speculative Grammar\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Letteratura italiana antica<\/em>, XXI, special issue in honor of Antonio Lanza,<\/p>\n<p>eds. Marta Ceci e Marcellina Troncarelli (Rome: Serra, 2020), vol. 2, pp. 215-25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"136\">\n<li>\u201cAmphibolies of the Postmodern: Hyper-Secularity or the Return of Religion?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;houxiandai de hanhun : chaoshisu haishi zongjiao de huigui?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>??\u73b0??\u542b\u6df7\uff1a?\u4e16\u4fd7\u8fd8?\u5b97\u6559?\u56de\u5f52\uff1f\u300b<\/p>\n<p>Translated into Chinese by Gong Kexin<\/p>\n<p><em>Journal for Christian Culture Studies<\/em>, 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"135\">\n<li>\u201cAltizer and the Christian Epic Tradition\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory<\/em> 19\/1 (2019-20): 134-48,<\/p>\n<p>Special Issue: Thomas J. J. Altizer, ed. Lissa McCullough<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"134\">\n<li>\u201cChristliche Offenbarung mittels lyrische Dichtung: Dantes <em>Vita nuova<\/em> und das Neue Testament,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>in <em>Christlicher Humanismus: Festschrift f\u00fcr Sigmund Bonk<\/em>, ed. Veit Neumann and Susanna Biber (Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2019), 117-138.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"133\">\n<li>\u201cA Negative Theological Critique of Postmodern Identity Politics\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Religions <\/em>10\/488 (2019): 1-15<em>,<\/em> Special Issue on \u201cChristian Literary Imagination: Seeking Transcendence in an Age of Identity,\u201d ed. Christopher Denny<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"132\">\n<li>\u201cSchrift als Theophanie in Dantes <em>Paradiso: <\/em>Das Medium als Metapher f\u00fcr die g\u00f6ttliche<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Unmittelbarkeit\u201d [\u201cWriting as Theophany: Dante\u2019s Scriptural Epiphany and the Medium as Metaphor for Immediacy\u201d], in <em>Schrift und Graphisches im Vergleich. <\/em><em>Beitr\u00e4ge zur XVII. Tagung der DGAVL in Bochum vom 06. bis 09. Juni 2017<\/em><em>, <\/em>eds. Monika Schmitz-Emans, Linda Simonis, and Simone Sauer-Kretschmer (Bielefeld, Germany: Aisthesis Verlag, 2019), 59-70<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"131\">\n<li>\u201cThinking in the Gap between the Cultures of Greece and China\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy <\/em>47 (2018): 45-49<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"130\">\n<li>\u201cReligion and Representation: Dante Studies After the Theological Turn,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Year\u2019s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory<\/em> 26\/1 (2018): 86-105<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"129\">\n<li>\u201cWorld Literature and the Encounter with the Other: A Means or a Menace?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Tensions in World Literature: Between the Local and the Universal,<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Weigui Fang (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), pp. 113-146<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"128\">\n<li>\u201cHema de mingxiang yu shensheng de miusi\u2014zuowei chuangzao yu qishi de shishi songge\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u8377\u9a6c\u7684\u51a5\u60f3\u4e0e\u795e\u5723\u7684\u7f2a\u65af\u2014\u4f5c\u4e3a\u521b\u9020\u4e0e\u542f\u793a\u7684\u53f2\u8bd7\u9882\u6b4c<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cHomer\u2019s Musings and the Divine Muse: Epic Song as Invention and as Revelation\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Translated into Chinese by Zhaobo, in Kuawenhuayanjiu \u8de8\u6587\u5316\u7814\u7a76 (<em>Transcultural Studies<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>(Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2018), Special Issue: Homeric World, pp. 69-98.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"127\">\n<li>\u201cTradition\u201d in <em>Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo, pp. 721-23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"126\">\n<li>\u201cUnsayability and the Promise of Salvation: An Apophatics of the World to Come\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Ewiges Leben. Ende oder Umbau einer Erl\u00f6sungsreligion,<\/em> eds. G\u00fcnter Thomas and Markus H\u00f6fner, Religion und Aufkl\u00e4rung series (T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018), pp. 303-16<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"125\">\n<li>\u201cA Theology of Human Encounter: Montemaggi\u2019s Professional-Personal Testament\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Literature and Theology<\/em> 32\/4 (2018): 475-496<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"124\">\n<li>\u201cdongya ruxue wenhua de renwen xueke jiaoyu yu bijiao renwenxue jichu\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u300a\u4e1c\u4e9a\u5112\u5b66\u6587\u5316\u7684\u4eba\u6587\u5b66\u79d1\u6559\u80b2\u4e0e\u6bd4\u8f83\u4eba\u6587\u5b66\u57fa\u7840\u300b(\u201cStudy on the Basis of Humanities<\/p>\n<p>Education and Comparative Humanities of Confucian Culture in East Asia\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Translated into Chinese by Shi Yuanhui<\/p>\n<p><em>Journal of Jiangnan University <\/em>(Humanities &amp; Social Sciences Edition) 16\/5 (2017): 5-10<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"123\">\n<li>\u201cPaul Celan, Dante\u2019s Manfred, and the Woundedness of Language as our Common Bond\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature <\/em>2013\/1 (2017): 131-143, Special Issue: <em>Paul Celan Today<\/em>, edited by Michael Jacob<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"122\">\n<li>\u201cBetwixt and Amidst: Mixed Genres of Sophia,\u201d Chapter 6 in<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy,<\/em> eds. J. Aaron Simmons and Nahum Brown (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017), Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Series, pp. 81-106<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"121\">\n<li>\u201cConcluding Responses: New Apophatic Paths in Critical Thinking,\u201d in<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy,<\/em> eds. J. Aaron Simmons and Nahum Brown (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017), Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Series, pp. 371-87<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"120\">\n<li>\u201cApophatic Universalism East and West:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Rethinking Universality Today in the Interstices between Cultures,\u201d chapter 13 in<\/p>\n<p><em>Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy,<\/em> eds. J. Aaron Simmons and Nahum Brown (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017), Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Series, pp. 263-292<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"119\">\n<li>\u201cAugustine\u2019s Discovery of Reading as Revelation: Conversion by the Book\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>The Confessions<\/em> of Augustine, <em>Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, <\/em>vol. 185<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>(Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017), pp. 80-90<\/p>\n<p>[Reprinted from <em>The Revelation of Imagination <\/em>(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015), chapter 4 (subsection IV: Conversion by the Book), pp. 267-282]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"118\">\n<li>\u201cReligion and Representation,\u201d with Chance Woods<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Sec. 2: \u201cReligious Belief and the Cultural Limits of Representation\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Year\u2019s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory<\/em> 1\/25 (2017): 19-42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"117\">\n<li>\u201cThe Negative Theology of Wallace Stevens\u2019s \u201cNotes Toward a Supreme Fiction\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Religions<\/em> 8\/4 (2017): 54 (1-9), Special Issue on \u201cEnglish Poetry and Christianity,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>edited by Kevin Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"116\">\n<li>\u201cShijie wenxue he yutazhe xiangyu : yizhong fangfa haishi yizhong weixie?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u300a\u4e16\u754c\u6587\u5b66\u548c\u4e0e\u4ed6\u8005\u76f8\u9047\uff1a\u4e00\u79cd\u65b9\u6cd5\u8fd8\u662f\u4e00\u79cd\u5a01\u80c1\uff1f\u300b<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cWorld Literature and the Encounter with the Other: A Means or a Menace?\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Translated into Chinese by Gao Wenchun, in: <em>Sixiang yu fangfa: difangxing yu pushixing zhijian de shijie wenxue<\/em> \u601d\u60f3\u8207\u65b9\u6cd5\uff1a\u5730\u65b9\u6027\u8207\u666e\u4e16\u6027\u4e4b\u9593\u7684\u4e16\u754c\u6587\u5b78 (<em>Ideas and Methods: World Literature Between the Local and the Universal<\/em>), ed. Fang Weigui \u65b9\u7dad\u898f (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2017), pp. 78-102<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<table id=\"post-status-info\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"wp-word-count\" class=\"hide-if-no-js\">Word count:\u00a0<span class=\"word-count\">14182<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ol start=\"115\">\n<li>\u201cBetwixt and Amidst: Mixed Genres of Sophia: A Response to Sai Bhatawadekar, W. C. Hackett,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Kevin Hart, J. Aaron Simmons, Stephen Palmquist,\u201d <em>Syndicate Theology<\/em> 3\/2 (2016): 136-48.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"114\">\n<li>\u201cClassical Chinese Thought and the Sense of Transcendence\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eds. Nahum Brown and William Franke (New York: Palgrave, 2016), pp. 35-66<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"113\">\n<li>\u201cEquivocations of \u2018Transcendence\u2019: Responses to Roger Ames\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eds. Nahum Brown and William Franke (New York: Palgrave, 2016), pp. 67-78<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"112\">\n<li>\u201cNothingness and the Aspiration to Universality in the Poetic \u2018Making\u2019 of Sense:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>An Essay in Comparative East-West Poetics\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Asian Philosophy: An International Journal of the Philosophical Traditions of the East <\/em>26\/3 (2016): 241-64<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"111\">\n<li>\u201cPoetry, Prophecy, and Revelation\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ed. John Barton (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/religion.oxfordre.com\">http:\/\/religion.oxfordre.com<\/a>), 1-25<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"110\">\n<li>\u201cThe Philosopher or the Sage: Apophaticism in Europe and China\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Wisdom and Philosophy: Contemporary and Comparative Approaches<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eds. Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew Whitehead<\/p>\n<p>(London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 55-73<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"109\">\n<li>\u201cSaint Paul Among the Theorists: A Genealogy of the New Universalism\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion<\/em>, ed. Mark Knight<\/p>\n<p>(New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 146-55<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"108\">\n<li>\u201cThe Religious Vocation of Secular Literature: Dante and Postmodern Thought,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Letteratura Italiana e religione <\/em>(<em>Religion and Literature in Italian Tradition<\/em>), ed. Salvatore Bancheri and Francesco Guardini (Florence: Franco Cesati, 2016), pp. 49-68<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"107\">\n<li>\u201cWritings and Revelation: Literary Theology in the Bible,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Literature and Theology <\/em>30\/1 (2016): 51-66<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"106\">\n<li>\u201cThe Ethical Import of (Negative) Theology in Intercultural Dialogue:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Eine Ausseinandersetzung mit Fran\u00e7ois Jullien,\u201d in <em>Ethik zwischen Vernunft <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 und Glaube. Brennpunkte und Gegenwartsfragen im\u00a0interkulturellen Diskurs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<em>Transcending Boundaries. Practical Philosophy from Intercultural <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Perspectives<\/em>], ed. Walter Schweidler (Eichst\u00e4tt\/Ingoldstadt: Academia Verlag-Sankt Augustine, 2015), series: West-\u00f6stliche Denkwege, pp. 75-90<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"105\">\n<li>\u201cInvolved Knowing: On the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Humanities <\/em>4\/4 (2015): 600-22, Special Issue on \u201cThe Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future,\u201d vol. 2, ed. Albrecht Classen<\/p>\n<p>[reprinted revised from <em>The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms<\/em> 16\/4 (2011): 447-68]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"104\">\n<li>\u201cAcknowledging Unknowing:<br \/>\nStanley Cavell and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Philosophy and Literature <\/em>39\/1 (2015): 248-258<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"103\">\n<li>\u201cAgamben\u2019s Logic of the Exception and Its Apophatic Roots and Offshoots\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies<\/em> 41\/2 (2015): 95-120<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"102\">\n<li>\u201cIntercultural Dia-logue and Its Apophatic Interstices\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy<\/em>, vol. 25, no. 1 (2015\/4): 1-23<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"101\">\n<li>\u201cWilliam Franke on Edmond Jab\u00e8s\u201d in <em>Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism,<\/em> vol. 304,<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence J. Trudeau (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015), pp. 202-217<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[reprinted from <em>A Philosophy of the Unsayable, <\/em>chapter 4, section ii]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"100\">\n<li>100. \u201cLanguage and Transcendence in Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Poetics of Transcendence,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>eds. Elisa Hein\u00e4m\u00e4ki, P.M. Mehtonen, and Antti Salminen<\/p>\n<p>(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2015), Currents of Encounter series, vol. 38, pp. 107-131<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"99\">\n<li>\u201cLe dia-logue et son au-del\u00e0 apophatique : avec Fran\u00e7ois Jullien\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Des possibles de la pens\u00e9e: <\/em><em>L\u2019itin\u00e9raire philosophique de Fran\u00e7ois Jullien<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eds. Fran\u00e7oise Gaillard and Philippe Ratte with Nathalie Schnur<\/p>\n<p>(Paris: \u00c9ditions Hermann, 2015), pp. 277-298<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ol start=\"98\">\n<li>\u201cLe commencement et la fin de la philosophie dans la mystique apophatique:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>De Platon au postmodernisme\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Philosophie et mystique chez Stanislas Breton\u00a0: Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle (ao\u00fbt 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eds. Jean Greisch, J\u00e9r\u00f4me de Gramont, and Marie-Odile M\u00e9tral<\/p>\n<p>(Paris: \u00c9ditions le Cerf, 2015)<em>,<\/em> pp. 129-43.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"97\">\n<li>\u201cLearned Ignorance: The Apophatic Tradition of Cultivating the Virtue of Unknowing\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, <\/em><\/p>\n<p>eds. Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey<\/p>\n<p>(New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 26-35<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"96\">\n<li>\u201cProfessional Dantology and the Human Significance of Dante Studies\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism <\/em>42\/4 (2014): 54-71<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"95\">\n<li>\u201cThe New Apophatic Universalism: Deconstructive Critical Theories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy <\/em>21 (2014): 86-101<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"94\">\n<li>\u201cSymbol and Allegory\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>eds. Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander (New York: Routledge, 2014)<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 29, pp. 367-77<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"93\">\n<li>\u201cWar and Tragedy and the Fate of the Spoken: Virgil\u2019s Secularization of Prophecy\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies <\/em>41\/4 (2014): 25-40<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"92\">\n<li>\u201cPoetics of Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies <\/em>2\/1-2 (2014): 137-58<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"91\">\n<li>\u201cAll or Nothing?\u2014Nature in Chinese Thought and the Apophatic Occident\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Comparative Philosophy <\/em>5\/2 (2014): 4-24<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"90\">\n<li>\u201cAugustine\u2019s <em>Confessions<\/em> and the Transcendental Ground of Consciousness:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>or How Literary Narrative Becomes Prophetic Revelation\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Philosophy and Literature <\/em>38\/1 (2014): 204-222<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"89\">\n<li>\u201cCosmopolitan Conviviality and Negative Theology: Europe\u2019s Vocation to Universalism\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Journal of European Studies<\/em> (2014): 44\/1 (2014): 30-49<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"88\">\n<li>\u201cCanonicity, Creativity, and the Unlimited Revelation of Literature\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas<\/em> 12: 1 (2014): 1-24<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"87\">\n<li>\u201cThe Paramount Importance of What Cannot Be Said in Public Theological Discourse\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Contextuality and Intercontextuality in Public Theology, <\/em>eds. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Florian H\u00f6hne, Tobias Reitmeier (Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2013), series on \u201cTheology in the Public Square \/ Theologie in der \u00d6ffentlichkeit,\u201d vol. 4., pp. 321-334<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"86\">\n<li>\u201cDante and the Secularization of Religion through Literature\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Religion and Literature<\/em> 45\/1 (2013): 1-31<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"85\">\n<li>85. \u201cParadoxical Prophecy: Dante\u2019s Strategy of Self-Subversion in the <em>Inferno\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Italica<\/em> 90\/3 (2013): 343-64<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"84\">\n<li>\u201cDante\u2019s Hermeneutic Complicity in Violence and Fraud in <em>Inferno <\/em>IX-XVII\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em> 82\/1 (Winter 2013): 1-19<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"83\">\n<li>\u201cApophasis as the Common Root of Radically Secular and Radically Orthodox Theology\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>International Journal for Philosophy of Religion<\/em> 73\/1 (2013): 57-76<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"82\">\n<li>\u201cThe Secondariness of Virgilian Epic and its Unprecedented Originality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies<\/em> 40\/1 (2013): 11-31<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"81\">\n<li>\u201cNegative Theology\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>eds. Anne Runehov, Lluis Oviedo (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013), pp. 1443-1450.<\/p>\n<p>Co-authored with Chance Woods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"80\">\n<li>\u201cLa <em>teologia negativa come critica dell&#8217;idolatria<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hermeneutica, <\/em>Nuova Serie<em> (2012): 315-332 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Annuario di Filosofia e Teologia fondato da Italo Mancini<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"79\">\n<li>79. \u201cThe Place of the Proper Name in the Topographies of the <em>Paradiso\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies <\/em>87\/4 (2012): 1089-1124<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"78\">\n<li>\u201cFrom the Bible as Literature to Literature as Theology:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A Theological Reading of Genesis as a Humanities Text\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Interdisciplinary Humanities<\/em> 29\/2 (Summer 2012): 28-45<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"77\">\n<li>\u201cTotal Forgetting as the Moment of Truth at the Climax of Dante\u2019s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em> and the Christian<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Epic Tradition,\u201d in <em>Erfahren, Erz\u00e4hlen, Erinnern: Narrative Konstruktionen von Ged\u00e4chtnis und Generation in Antike und Mittelalter<\/em> \/ <em>Record, Relate, Remember: Narrative Constructions of Memory and Generation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages,<\/em> eds. Benjamin Pohl, Maurice Sprague and Linda H\u00f6rl (Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2012), pp. 299-326<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"76\">\n<li>\u201cDante\u2019s Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Prophetic Voice and Vision<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>in the Malebolge (<em>Inferno<\/em> XVIII-XXV)<\/p>\n<p><em>Philosophy and Literature <\/em>36\/1 (2012): 111-121<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"75\">\n<li>\u201cApophatic Paths: Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Aesthetics of Nothing\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities<\/em> 17\/3 (2012): 7-18<\/p>\n<p>Special Issue: \u201cNothing,\u201d eds. Antti Salminen and Sami Sj\u00f6berg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"74\">\n<li>\u201cUn d\u00edptico apofat\u00edco: Juan de la Cruz y Samuel Beckett\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[\u201cAn Apophatic Dyptich: John of the Cross and Samuel Beckett\u201d]<\/p>\n<p><em>Despalabro<\/em>. <em>Ensayos de Humanidades<\/em> 6 (2012): 179-88<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"73\">\n<li>73. \u201cThe Origin of Philosophy in Theological Critique of Idolatry and its Consummation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>in Negative Theological Critique of Conceptual Idolatry\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Hermeneutica<\/em>, Nuova serie (2012): 315-32<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"72\">\n<li>72. \u201cDante\u2019s Hermeneutic Rite of Passage: <em>Inferno IX<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism on Dante,<\/em> vol. 142,<\/p>\n<p>Ed. Laurence J. Trudeau<\/p>\n<p>(Detroit\/New York: Gale\/Cengage Learning, 2012), pp. 238-56<\/p>\n<p>Reprinted from <em>Dante\u2019s Interpretive Journey<\/em>, pp. 82-118<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"71\">\n<li>\u201cDante\u2019s New Life and the New Testament: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Revelation\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Italianist<\/em> 31 (2011): 335-66<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"70\">\n<li>\u201cGospel as Personal Knowing: Theological Reflections on not Just a Literary Genre\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Theology Today <\/em>68\/4 (2011): 413-23<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"69\">\n<li>\u201cOn Doing the Truth in Time: The <em>Aeneid<\/em>\u2019s Invention of Poetic Prophecy\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics<\/em> 19\/1 (2011): 53-63<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"68\">\n<li>\u201cProphecy as a Genre of Revelation: Synergisms of Inspiration and Imagination in the Book of Isaiah\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Theology<\/em> 114\/5 (2011): 340-52<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"67\">\n<li>\u201cInvolved Knowing: On the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms<\/em> 16\/4 (2011): 447-68<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"66\">\n<li>\u201cHomer\u2019s Musings and the Divine Muse: Epic Song as Invention and as Revelation\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Religion and Literature<\/em> 43\/1 (2011): 1-28<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"65\">\n<li>\u201cThe Canon Question and the Value of Theory: Towards a New (Non-)Concept of Universality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Canonical Debate Today. Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries<\/em>, eds. Liviu Papadima, David Damrosch, and Theo D\u2019haen (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 55-71.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"64\">\n<li>\u201c\u2018The Missing All\u2019: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Apophatic Poetics,\u201d <em>Poetry for Students, <\/em>vol. 35<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(Kennedale, TX: Gale Group, 2010)<\/p>\n<p>[Reprinted from <em>Christianity and Literature<\/em> 58\/1 (2008):\u00a0 61-80]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"63\">\n<li>\u201cSulla verit\u00e0 poetica che \u00e8 superiore alla Storia: Porfirio e la critica filosofica della letteratura,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Italian translation of \u201cOn the Poetic Truth that is Higher than History . . .\u201d (#61)<\/p>\n<p>with critical introduction (\u201cPer una Critica Speculativa\u201d) by Laura Lucia Rossi<\/p>\n<p><em>Enthymema: Rivista di teoria, critica e filosofia della letteratura<\/em> 1\u00a0 (2010): 1-17<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"62\">\n<li>\u201cOn the Poetic Truth that is Higher than History:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Porphyry and the Philosophical Interpretation of Literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>International Philosophical Quarterly<\/em> 50\/4 (2010): 415-430<\/p>\n<p>[Reprinted in Acts of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas)<\/p>\n<p>2010 International Conference on \u201cThought in Science and Fiction\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"61\">\n<li>\u201cThe Death and Damnation of Poetry in <em>Inferno <\/em>XXXI-XXXIV:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Ugolino and Narrative as an Instrument of Revenge\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Romance Studies<\/em> 28\/1 (2010): \u00a027-35<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"60\">\n<li>\u201cAlighieri, Dante,\u201d \u201cDionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite,\u201d and \u201cPetrarch, Francesco.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity<\/em>, ed. Daniel Patte<\/p>\n<p>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2010)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"59\">\n<li>59. \u201cDante\u2019s <em>Inferno <\/em>as Poetic Revelation of Prophetic Truth,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Philosophy and Literature <\/em>33\/2 (2009): 252-66<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"58\">\n<li>58. \u201cExistentialism: An Atheistic or a Christian Philosophy?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century<\/em>, Chapter 22<\/p>\n<p><em>Analecta Husserliana<\/em> 103 (2009): 371-94<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"57\">\n<li>\u201cEquivocations of Metaphysics:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A Debate with Christian Moevs\u2019s <em>The Metaphysics of Dante\u2019s <\/em>Comedy\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Philosophy and Theology <\/em>20\/1-2 (2009): 29-52<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"56\">\n<li>56. \u201cBeyond the Limits of Reason Alone: A Critical Approach to the Religious Inspiration of Literature\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Position Statement in forum of invited contributions to a Special Issue on the discipline:<\/p>\n<p><em>Religion and Literature<\/em> 41\/2 (2009): 69-78<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"55\">\n<li>55. \u201cJames Joyce and the Bible\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature<\/em>, chapter 46<\/p>\n<p>Eds. Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, Jonathan Roberts, Christopher Rowland,<\/p>\n<p>(Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 642-53.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"54\">\n<li>54. \u201cEdmond Jab\u00e8s, or the Endless Self-Emptying of Language in the Name of God\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Literature and Theology<\/em> 22\/1 (2008): 1-17<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"53\">\n<li>53. \u201c\u2018The Missing All\u2019: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Apophatic Poetics\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Christianity and Literature<\/em> 58\/1 (2008): \u00a061-80<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"52\">\n<li>52. \u201cThe Coincidence of Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Journal of Religion<\/em> 88\/3 (2008): 365-92<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"51\">\n<li>51. \u201cLe Nom de Dieu comme vanit\u00e9 du langage au fond de tout mot selon Edmond Jab\u00e8s,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[&#8220;The Name of God\u00a0as the Vanity of\u00a0Language\u00a0in the Heart of Every Word&#8221;],<br \/>\ntrans. by Martine Prieto and Geoffrey Obin, <em>Edmond Jab\u00e8s\u00a0: L&#8217;\u00e9closion des \u00e9nigmes<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p>eds. Daniel Lan\u00e7on et Catherine Mayaux (Vincennes: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007), pp. 249-60 (Paris: Litt\u00e9rature Hors Fronti\u00e8res, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2007 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"50\">\n<li>50. \u201cEine kritische Negative Theologie des Dialogs: Die Koinzidenz von Vernunft und Offenbarung in<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>kommunikativer Offenheit\u201c [ \u201cA Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue: The Coincidence of<\/p>\n<p>Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness\u201d], translated by\u00a0Michael Sonntag<\/p>\n<p><em>Salzburger Theologishe Zeitschrift<\/em> 11\/2 (2007):\u00a0 217-49.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"49\">\n<li>49. \u201cThe Ethical Vision of Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em> in Light of Levinas\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Comparative Literature<\/em> 59\/3 (2007): 209-27<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"48\">\n<li>\u201cThe Ethical Posture of Anti-Colonial Discourse in Said and in Gandhi\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Journal of Contemporary Thought <\/em>25 (Summer, 2007): 5-24<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"47\">\n<li>47. \u201cPoetic Language, Apocalypse, and the Premises for Dialogue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Between a Secular West and Radical Islam\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Reconstructing Realities: Occident-Orient Engagements<\/em><\/p>\n<p>eds. Ganakumaran Subramaniam, Shanthini Pillai and Hafriza Burhanudeen<\/p>\n<p>(Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Longman, 2007), pp. 41-52<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"46\">\n<li>46. \u201cThe Deaths of God in Hegel and Nietzsche and the Crisis of Values<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>in Secular Modernity and Post-Secular Postmodernity\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Religion and the Arts<\/em> 11\/2 (2007): 214-41<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"45\">\n<li>45. \u201cScripture as Theophany in Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Religion and Literature<\/em> 39\/2 (Spring 2007): 1-32<\/p>\n<p>(2006 Annual Religion and Literature Lecture, University of Notre Dame)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"44\">\n<li>44. \u201cHermeneutics, Historicity, and Poetry as Theological Revelation in Dante\u2019s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Art and Time,<\/em> ed. Jan Lloyd Jones et al. (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007),<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>39-56<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ol start=\"43\">\n<li>43. \u201cThe Rhetorical-Theological Presence of Romans in Dante:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A Comparison of Methods in Philosophical Perspective\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Medieval Readings of Romans<\/em>, eds. William S. Campbell, Peter S. Hawkins, Brenda Dean Schildgen (New York: T &amp; T Clark International, 2007), pp. 142-52<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"42\">\n<li>42. \u201cPrimordial Sacrifice, Typology, and the Theological Vocation of Literature:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Extending Gian Balsamo\u2019s Interpretation of Joyce and Christian Epic\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Literature and Theology<\/em> 20\/3 (2006): 251-68<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"41\">\n<li>41. \u201cPraising the Unsayable: An Apophatic Defense of Metaphysics<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Based on the Neoplatonic <em>Parmenides<\/em> Commentaries\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Epoch\u00e9: A Journal for the History of Philosophy<\/em> 11\/1 (2006): 143-73<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"40\">\n<li>40. \u201cApophasis and the Turn of Philosophy to Religion: From Neoplatonic Negative Theology to<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Postmodern Negation of Theology\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion<\/em>, ed. Eugene Long,<\/p>\n<p>Special issue of <em>International Journal for Philosophy of Religion<\/em> 60\/ 1-3 (2006): 61-76<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"39\">\n<li>39. \u201cLinguistic Repetition as Theological Revelation in Christian Epic Tradition:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Case of Joyce\u2019s <em>Finnegans Wake<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Neophilologus <\/em>90\/1 (2006): 155-172<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"38\">\n<li>38. \u201cThe Singular and the Other at the Limits of Language in the Post-Holocaust Poetry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>of Edmond Jab\u00e8s and Paul Celan\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>New Literary History<\/em> 36\/4 (2005): 621-38<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"37\">\n<li>37. \u201cVarieties and Valences of Unsayability in Literature\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Philosophy and Literature<\/em> 29\/2 (2005): 489-97<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"36\">\n<li>\u201cThe Linguistic Turning of the Symbol:\u00a0Baudelaire and his French Symbolist Heirs\u201d<br \/>\nIn <em>Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, <\/em>ed. Russel Whitaker<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(Detroit: Thomson <em>Gale, 2005),<\/em><\/p>\n<p>vol. 144: <em>French Symbolist Poetry<\/em>, pp. 40-47<\/p>\n<p>[Reprinted from <em>Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity,<\/em> volume in Honor of Claude Pichois,<\/p>\n<ol start=\"40\">\n<li>Patricia Ward (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 28-40.]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"35\">\n<li>\u201cFranz Rosenzweig and the Emergence of a Post-Secular Philosophy of the Unsayable\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>International Journal for Philosophy of Religion<\/em> 58\/3 (2005): 161-80<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"34\">\n<li>\u201cVirgil, History, and Prophecy\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Philosophy and Literature<\/em> 29\/1 (2005): 73-88<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2004<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"33\">\n<li>\u201cDamascius. Of the Ineffable: Aporetics of the Notion of an Absolute Principle\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics<\/em> 12\/1 (2004): 111-31.<\/p>\n<p>(Introduction with original translation from the Greek of <em>De principiis<\/em>, Part I, cc 3-8)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"32\">\n<li>\u201cA Philosophy of the Unsayable: Apophasis and the Experience of Truth and Totality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Imaginatio Creatrix: The Pivotal Force of the Genesis\/Ontopoiesis of Human Life and Reality<\/em>, ed. A.-T. Tymieniecka, <em>Analecta Husserliana<\/em> LXXXIII (2004): 65-83.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"31\">\n<li>\u201cTruth and Interpretation in the <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Dante Modern Critical Views<\/em>, ed. Harold Bloom (Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2004), pp. 287-305.<\/p>\n<p>[Excerpt reprinted from <em>Dante\u2019s Interpretive Journey<\/em>, pp. 5-23]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"30\">\n<li>\u201cThe Dialectical Logic of Yeats\u2019s Byzantium Poems\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Poetry Criticism<\/em>, vol. 51, ed. Carol Ullman (Kennedale, TX: Gale Group, 2004), pp. 146-52<\/p>\n<p>[Reprinted from <em>Yeats-Eliot Review<\/em> 15, no. 3:\u00a0 23-32]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"29\">\n<li>\u201cThe Exodus Epic: Universalization of History Through Ritual\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Universality and History: The Foundations of Core<\/em>, ed. Don Thompson, Darrel Colson, and J.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Lee (Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2002), pp. 59-70<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"28\">\n<li>\u201cThe Interpretive Journey and the Allegory of Reading: Introduction to the <em>Inferno<\/em> as a Humanities<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Text,\u201d in <em>Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context<\/em>, ed. Bainard Cowen and J. Scott Lee<\/p>\n<p>(Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2002), pp 75-82<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"27\">\n<li>\u201cLiterature as Liturgy and the Interpretive Revolution of Literary Criticism\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Preface to Gian Balsamo, <em>Scriptural Poetics in Finnegans Wake<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Lewisburg, New York: Edwin Mellin Press, 2002), pp. v-xiii<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"26\">\n<li>\u201cIl significato teologico del paesaggio di san Benedetto nel <em>Paradiso<\/em> di Dante\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[\u201cThe Theological Significance of the Landscape around Saint Benedict in Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d]<\/p>\n<p><em>Lo Speco<\/em> CVII, no. 4 (2002): 80-82<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2001 &#8211; 2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"25\">\n<li>\u201cWilliam Franke on Post-Structuralist Interpretation\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Italo Calvino: Modern Critical Views<\/em>, ed. Harold Bloom (Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2001).<\/p>\n<ol start=\"30\">\n<li>28-30. [Reprinted from \u201cThe Deconstructive Anti-Logic of Italo Calvino\u2019s <em>Le citt\u00e0 invisibili,<\/em>\u201d <em>Italian Quarterly<\/em> 30 (1989)].<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"24\">\n<li>\u201cDante\u2019s Address to the Reader in Face of Derrida\u2019s Critique of Ontology\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Poetry of Life in Literature. Annalecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research<\/em> LXIX (2000): 119-31.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"23\">\n<li>\u201cProphecy Eclipsed: <em>Hamlet<\/em> as a Tragedy of Knowledge\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Core Texts in Conversation<\/em>, eds. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, David Sokolowski, and J. Scott Lee<\/p>\n<p>(Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2000), pp. 149-54<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"22\">\n<li>\u201cMetaphor and the Making of Sense: The Contemporary Metaphor Renaissance\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Philosophy and Rhetoric<\/em> 33\/2 (2000): 137-154<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"21\">\n<li>\u201cApocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue: A Negatively Theological Perspective\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion<\/em> 47\/2 (2000): 65-86<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"20\">\n<li>\u201cThe Linguistic Turning of the Symbol:\u00a0Baudelaire and his French Symbolist Heirs\u201d<br \/>\nIn <em>Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity,<\/em> volume in Honor of Claude Pichois,<\/li>\n<li>Patricia Ward (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 28-40<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"19\">\n<li>\u201cFiguralism,\u201d \u201cAlbert the Great,\u201d \u201cConstantine,\u201d \u201cIsrael,&#8221; \u201cWilliam II of Sicily\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>The Dante Encyclopedia<\/em>\u00a0 (New York-London: Garland Publishing, 2000),<\/p>\n<ol start=\"86\">\n<li>Richard Lansing, pp. 376-79, 11, 216-17, 524-525, 885-86.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1990s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"18\">\n<li>\u201cEine Kontextbestimmung der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft&#8211;das Beispiel Vanderbilt\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft.\u00a0 Konturen und Profile im Pluralismus<\/em>, pp. 181-92<\/p>\n<p>With John McCarthy, ed. Carsten Zelle (Opladen\/Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1999)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"17\">\n<li>\u201cApocalyptic Poetry Between Metaphysics and Negative Theology: From Dante to Celan and Stevens\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Literature and Belief<\/em> 19\/1,2 (1999): 261-284<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"16\">\n<li>\u201c\u2018Enditynges of Worldly Vanitees\u2019: Truth and Poetry in Chaucer as Compared with Dante\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The Chaucer Review<\/em> 34, no. 1 (1999): 87-106<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"15\">\n<li>\u201cThe Dialectical Logic of Yeats\u2019s Byzantium Poems\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Yeats-Eliot Review<\/em> 15, no. 3 (Summer 1998): 23-32<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"14\">\n<li>\u201cPsychoanalysis as a Hermeneutics of the Subject: Freud, Ricoeur, Lacan\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review<\/em> 38 (1998): 65-81<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"13\">\n<li>\u201cReader\u2019s Application and the Moment of Truth\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Dante: Contemporary Perspectives<\/em>,<\/p>\n<ol start=\"80\">\n<li>Amilcare Iannucci (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 59-80.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[reprint, revised, of \u201cDante and Modern Hermeneutic Thought,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante Research and Interpretation<\/em> 12 (1993): 34-52]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"12\">\n<li>\u201cBlind Prophecy: Milton\u2019s Figurative Mode in <em>Paradise Lost\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In <em>Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination<\/em>,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>John Hawley (New York: Fordham University Press, 1996), pp. 87-103<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"11\">\n<li>\u201cResurrected Tradition and Revealed Truth: Dante\u2019s Statius\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quaderni d\u2019italianistica<\/em> 15\/1-2 (1994):\u00a0 7-34<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n<li>\u201cDante and the Poetics of Religious Revelation\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Symploke: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship <\/em><\/p>\n<p>2\/2 (1994): 103-116<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li>\u201cDante\u2019s Hermeneutic Rite of Passage: <em>Inferno IX<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Religion and Literature<\/em> 26\/2 (1994): 1-26<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>\u201cIn the Interstices Between Symbol and Allegory: Montale\u2019s Figurative Mode\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Comparative Literature Studies<\/em> 31\/4 (1994): 370-89<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>\u201cDante\u2019s Address to the Reader and its Ontological Significance\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>MLN<\/em> (<em>Modern Language Notes<\/em>) 109 (1994): 117-27<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>\u201cHermeneutic Catastrophe in Racine: The Epistemological Predicament of 17th Century Tragedy\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Romanische Forschungen<\/em> 105 (1993): 315-31<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>\u201cPoetics and Apocalypse in Manzoni\u2019s Interpretation of History\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Esperienze letterarie<\/em> Anno XVIII &#8211; n. 4 (1993): 17-38<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>\u201cDante and Modern Hermeneutic Thought\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante Research and Interpretation<\/em> 12 (1993): 34-52<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>\u201cThe Logic of Infinity: European Romanticism and the Question of Giacomo Leopardi\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Comparatio: Revue Internationale de Litt\u00e9rature Compar\u00e9e<\/em> 1 (1990): 69-82<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\u201cThe Deconstructive Anti-Logic of Italo Calvino\u2019s <em>Le citt\u00e0 invisibili<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Italian Quarterly<\/em> 30 (1989): 31-41<\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cNote on Robert Harrison\u2019s <em>The Body of Beatrice<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Rivista di studi italiani<\/em> 6\/2 (1988): 78-82<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Critical Reviews and Appreciations<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Review of Andrew W. Hass, ed., <em>Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World <\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2021) in <em>Literature and Theology<\/em> 36\/3 (2022) (Oxford University Press), 342-45<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Review of Donald Phillip Verene, <em>The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies <\/em>(Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2018) in American Academy of Religion forum: <em>Reading Religion<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/readingreligion.org\/9781532641732\/\">The Philosophy of Literature &#8211; Reading Religion<\/a> (2019)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Review of Marco Maggi, <em>Walter Benjamin e Dante: Una costellazione nello spazio delle immagini<\/em> (Rome: Donzelli, 2017) in <em>Speculum<\/em> 93\/3 (2018): 873-74<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Review of James Robinson, <em>Joyce\u2019s Dante: Exile, Memory, and Community<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) in <em>James Joyce Quarterly <\/em>53\/3-4 (2016):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Review of Peter Hawkins, <em>Dante: A Brief History<\/em> (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), in <a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/dhNpkY\/Review%20of%20Hawkins%20Dante..pdf\"><em>Christianity and Literature<\/em><\/a>: 471-72<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Review of Massimo Verdicchio, <em>Of Dissimulation: Allegory and Irony in Dante\u2019s <\/em>Commedia + <em>Naming Things: Aesthetics, Philosophy and History in Benedetto Croce<\/em> in <em>Canadian Review of Comparative Literature = Revue canadienne de litt\u00e9rature compar\u00e9e<\/em> 32, no. 2 (2005): 225-228<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Review of Warren Ginsberg, <em>Dante and the Aesthetics of Being<\/em> in <em>Speculum<\/em> 76\/3 (July 2001), 727-29<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante and Modernism.\u201d On David Pike\u2019s <em>Passage through Hell:\u00a0 Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds<\/em>, review article in <em>Speculum<\/em> 74\/3 (1999): 808-11<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiecimila quadri ed anche qualcuno di pi\u00f9,\u201d <em>L\u2019arte illustrata<\/em> 5, November 1985<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoesia e politica si mescolano,\u201d <em>Tempi di fraternit\u00e0<\/em>, August 1985<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue poeti e un libro,\u201d <em>Tempi di fraternit\u00e0<\/em>, September 1986<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Poetry<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Automocrat,\u201d <em>Only Poetry<\/em>, Spring 1982<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvocation of Campion,\u201d \u201cJenny Arranging Herself to Play Violin: An Appreciation by Her Pianist,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassing the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square,\u201d <em>California State Poetry Quarterly<\/em>, Volume IX,<\/p>\n<p>No. 1, 1982<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContemporaries,\u201d <em>California State Poetry Quarterly<\/em>, Volume X, No. 2, Summer 1983<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDance of the Shirts,\u201d <em>The Writer<\/em>, November 1984<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLetter to a Friend,\u201d \u201cMarch,\u201d <em>SEAMS: The Cultural Art Journal<\/em>, Volume 2 No. 1, Fall 1985<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree Riding I-IV,\u201d <em>SEAMS: The Cultural Arts Journal<\/em>, Volume 2, No. 2 Winter-Spring 1986<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlimpses I-IV,\u201d <em>SEAMS: The Cultural Arts Journal<\/em>, Volume 2, No. 3, Summer-Fall 1986<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLimbo,\u201d \u201cFaring Well in Arms,\u201d \u201cLightspot,\u201d <em>SEAMS: The Cultural Arts Journal<\/em>, Volume 2, No. 4,<\/p>\n<p>Winter-Spring 1987<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOriginal Lyric,\u201d \u201cOutsight,\u201d <em>BERKELEY POETS 1987<\/em> (Rosenberg Prize)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PUBLIC LECTURES, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(* for keynote, plenary, named, or featured 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Studies Center\u00a0conference on \u201cTracking Global Wokeism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gulf University of Science and Technology,<\/p>\n<p>Mubarak Al-Abdullah, Kuwait, February 8, 2023<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crono.news%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cwilliam.franke%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cc2eff8fd05474e61345708dad45c75aa%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C638055790836071984%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CT7nW6sYDPLp%2Ff6ojJbOrZ40iIfSXnIf4qgEg1OrIpY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">www.crono.news<\/a> Podcast, \u201cDivine Comedy and Bhagavad Gita with William Franke and Jayashankar Krishnamurthy,\u201d Crono News: international Italian web magazine dedicated to art, multiculturalism, spirituality, music, literature, history.\u00a0\u00a0<u>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cosmic-dancer-talk\/divine-comedy-and-bhagavad-gita-with-william-franke-and-jayashankar-krishnamurty-episode-93<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevolution in Poetic Language: Dante\u2019s Use of the Vernacular as Vehicle for Theological Revelation,\u201d 2022 Virtual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), December 2, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cDante\u2019s New Life for Poetic Language as Theological Revelation in a Modern Secular Key,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inaugural Lecture for Annual Dante Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University,<\/p>\n<p>November 29, 2022, Nashville, Tennessee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cSelf-Reflection and Reduction in the Language of Lyric,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reduction Lecture Series, ICI (Institute for Cultural Inquiry)<\/p>\n<p>Berlin, May 16, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\u201cRevolution in Poetic Language: Dante\u2019s Use of the Vernacular as Vehicle for Theological Revelation,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Convention, special session co-sponsored by Dante Society of America (DSA), Dublin, March 21-April 2, 2022\u00a0 POSTPONED]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cDante and East Asia: The Apophatic Connection\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLENARY ADDRESS<\/strong> for Symposium: \u201cAfterlives: Dante in Dialogue with East Asian Buddhism\u201d<br \/>\nUCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS)<\/p>\n<p>November\u00a013, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Invited as Participant in Symposium on \u201cApophatic Thinking, Aesthetics and Humanism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht,<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands, October 27-28, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[*\u201cMy Interpretive Journey with Dante: From Existential Hermeneutics in Hell to Virtual Reality in Paradise,\u201d\u00a0presentation for International Seminar in Philosophy of Education: \u201cAn Imaginary Space of the Future: A Hermeneutic Reading of Dwelling in Dante\u2019s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 International Institute for Hermeneutics, University of Warsaw, October 21, 2021] POSTPONED<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice and Mercy as Spectacle in the Heaven of Jupiter,\u201d International Conference: <em>Giustizia e misericordia nell\u2019et\u00e0 di Dante. Riflessioni, espressioni, rappresentazioni e pratiche, <\/em><\/p>\n<p>University of Lyon, October 18-19, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTranscendence, Immanence, and Transdescendence in Modern Art from Dante to Mallarm\u00e9\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JIS (Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies) International Symposium:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Arts &amp; Transcendence: In Search of Beauty, Truth &amp; Goodness\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pasadena, California, October 17, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Vita nuova: <\/em>The New Life for Poetic Language as Theological Revelation in a Modern Secular Key\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Conference \u201cLa modernit\u00e0 di Dante,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Complutense University of Madrid, October 15, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s Relevance to and Impact on Postmodern Thought\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colloque International: \u201cLa mondialisation de Dante\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de litt\u00e9rature g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et compar\u00e9e<\/p>\n<p>University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, October 7-8, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cSelf-reflection and the Other in Dante\u2019s<em> Paradiso<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keynote Speaker<\/strong> for the Dante Salon at 2021 Psychology and the Other Conference<\/p>\n<p>Boston College, September 17-19, 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cA Theological Reading of Dante\u2019s Lyrical Language as Self-reflection\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congresso Dantesco Internazionale,<\/p>\n<p>Ravenna, September 15-18, 2021] POSTPONED<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie Aufgabe der Literatur in der sich globalisierenden Welt, oder: Begegnung mit dem Unvergleichbaren. Walter Benjamin und die Weltliteratur\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Internationale Vereinigung f\u00fcr Germanistik (IVG), XIV. Kongress<strong>: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wege der Germanistik in transkulturellen Perspektiven<strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palermo 26 July \u2013 2 August 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Public Debate on <em>Dante\u2019s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With critique by Francesco Giusti, Moderator Christine Ott, Comparative Literature<\/p>\n<p>University of Frankfurt, Germany, June 25, 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u00bfPorque la revelaci\u00f3n teol\u00f3gica tiene que expresarse en la vern\u00e1culo? La <em>Vita nuova<\/em> de Dante y el <em>Nueve Testamento\u201d <\/em>[Why Theological Revelation Needs to Express itself in the Vernacular: Dante\u2019s <em>Vita nuova <\/em>and the New Testament]. Conference on: El di\u00e1logo de las lenguas: la emergencia del pensamiento en vern\u00e1culo (siglos XIII-XVI), Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, May 26, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWarrior Saints and Scripture as Theophany: Paradiso XVIII\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Lectura Dantis with Jakob Abell for Dante Society of America, podcast<\/p>\n<p>May 20, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Presentation online for seminar \u201cLirica &amp; Teoria\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hosts Christine Ott and Francesco Giusti, Comparative Literature<\/p>\n<p>University of Frankfurt, Germany, March 26, 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2020 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>La Vita nuova <\/em>entre po\u00e9sie et prose: renouvellement de vie et r\u00e9v\u00e9lation th\u00e9ologique\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes et de Recherches sur la Litt\u00e9rature Italienne<\/p>\n<p>du Moyen \u00c2ge (CERLIM),<\/p>\n<p>Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris\u00a03), November 14, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[*\u201cFour Lectures: Dante\u2019s <em>Vita nuova<\/em>, Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Hamlet,<\/em> Goethe\u2019s <em>Faust<\/em>, Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s <em>Coup de d\u00e9s<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renmin University, Beijing, November, 2020\u00a0 POSTPONED TO 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\u201cDante\u2019s Relevance to and Impact on Postmodern Thought\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Colloquium, Le mondialisation de Dante<\/p>\n<p>University of Lorraine, Nancy, FRANCE<\/p>\n<p>15-16 October, 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 POSTPONED TO 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[*\u201cSelbst-Reflexion auf der Schwelle zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit: eine theologische Genealogie des Zeitalters der Vorstellung,\u201d lecture for the Alfred Magnum Forum<\/p>\n<p>University of Regensburg, October 2020\u00a0 POSTPONED TO 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\u201cWalter Benjamin und die Weltliteratur, \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Internationale Vereinigung f\u00fcr Germanistik (IVG), XIV. Kongress<strong>: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wege der Germanistik in transkulturellen Perspektiven<strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palermo 26 July \u2013 2 August 2020] \u00a0POSTPONED TO 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[*\u201c<em>La Vita nuova <\/em>entre po\u00e9sie et prose: renouvellement de vie et r\u00e9v\u00e9lation th\u00e9ologique\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes et de Recherches sur la Litt\u00e9rature Italienne<\/p>\n<p>du Moyen \u00c2ge (CERLIM),<\/p>\n<p>Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris\u00a03), May 16, 2020] POSTPONED TO 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\u201c\u00bfPorque la revelaci\u00f3n teol\u00f3gica tiene que expresarse en la vern\u00e1culo? La <em>Vita nuova<\/em> de Dante y el <em>Nueve Testamento\u201d <\/em>(Why Theological Revelation Needs to Express itself in the Vernacular: Dante\u2019s <em>Vita nuova <\/em>and the New Testament). Conference on: El di\u00e1logo de las lenguas: la emergencia del pensamiento en vern\u00e1culo (siglos XIII-XVI), Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, May 11-13, 2020]<\/p>\n<p>POSTPONED TO 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cMuch Virtue in Vagueness: Premonition of the Eternal and Encountering the Other\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keynote Speech for Literary Workshop on: \u201cObsession with Eternity and Challenges of the Other,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Departments of Arabic and English, College of Arts, University of Anbar, Iraq<\/p>\n<p>May 11, 2020 (online)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cLa rappresentazione scientifica versus rappresentazione simbolica del reale: Duns Scoto e Dante\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seminario de Dantolog\u00eda: Spring 2020: Modernidad de Dante (Dante y la naturaleza humana: Mentalidad cient\u00edfica, mentalidad simb\u00f3lica)<\/p>\n<p>La Asociaci\u00f3n Complutense de Dantolog\u00eda<\/p>\n<p>Universidad Complutense, Madrid, March 6, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Discourse of Social Justice in a Negative Theological Perspective\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture Series: \u201cLecturas sobre religi\u00f3n y sociedad civil,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), University of Navarra,<\/p>\n<p>Pamplona, Spain, January 21, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2019 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cThe Birth of Modernity and its Crisis in Dante\u2019s Phenomenology of the Self-Reflective Subject\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLENARY LECTURE WITH RESPONDENT<\/strong> (Aaron Daniels) for \u201cPsychology and the Other 2019 Conference,\u201d section on \u201cDante and Phenomenology\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, October 4, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cReligion, Culture, and Art: Their Common Matrix\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for ICRCA International Conference on Religion, Culture, and Art<\/p>\n<p>MIGCCA (Modern International Green Culture Communication Association)<\/p>\n<p>(Co-Organizers: University of Zagreb, Yun Tech, University of Glasgow)<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019an, Xianxi, China, September 21-22, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cSpeculative Philology: From Ancient Theological Hermeneutics to Modern Linguistic Epistemologies\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presenter at Yale-NUS and Princeton \u201cComparative Antiquities\u201d workshop on \u201cGlobal Classicism,\u201d a Humanities Council Global initiative, Princeton University,<\/p>\n<p>National University of Singapore, August 1-5, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cTechnological Transformation and Postmodern Re-enchantment of the Everyday\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comparative Literature and Religious Studies Round Table on \u201cSacredness and the Everyday,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>jointly hosted by Renmin University of China and the University of Saint Joseph,<\/p>\n<p>XXII Congress of ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association),<\/p>\n<p>University of St. Joseph, Macao, China, July 29-31, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s New Life and the New Testament: Hermeneutics of Revelation in the Vita Nuova,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Session on \u201cRereading Dante\u2019s \u2018Vita Nuova\u2019 \u2013 Modes of Interpretation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congresso Dantesco Internazionale: \u201cAlma Dante 2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ravenna, May 31, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cThe Fate of Philology in a Logo-decentered Culture: The Challenge of Media Studies,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gastvortrag (Guest Lecture), Lehrstuhl f\u00fcr Medienwissenschaften (Institute for Media Studies) in Fakult\u00e4t f\u00fcr Sprach-, Literatur-, und Kulturwissenschaften (Faculty of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies), University of Regensburg, May 9, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cDe Dante \u00e0 Mallarm\u00e9 \u00e0 travers l\u2019<em>Hamlet<\/em> de Shakespeare: N\u00e9gativit\u00e9 de la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation proph\u00e9tique-po\u00e9tique dans la modernit\u00e9\u201d (\u201cFrom Dante to Mallarm\u00e9 via Shakespeare\u2019s<em> Hamlet<\/em>: Negativities of Prophetic Revelation in Modernity\u201d), International Conference: \u00ab Dante et Shakespeare: Cosmologie, Politique et Poetique \u00bb, University of Poitiers \/ Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes Sup\u00e9rieures de Civilisation M\u00e9di\u00e9vale, FRANCE, 4-6 April 2019<br \/>\n*\u201cApophasis und die Achsenzeit: Transzendente Urspr\u00fcnge des kritischen Bewusstseins\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cApophasis and the Axial Age: Transcendent Origins of Critical Consciousness\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><strong>FEATURED LECTURE<\/strong> for \u201cNegation und Wissen. Zur Kategorie der Negativit\u00e4t in Theologie, Anthropologie und \u00c4sthetik der Vormoderne\u201d (Negativity and Knowledge: On the category of negativity in theology, anthropology and aesthetics in the pre-modern period), Interdisciplinary Conference under auspices of SFB: Sonderforschungsbereich: Episteme in Bewegung,<\/p>\n<p>Freie Universit\u00e4t, Berlin, April, 4-5, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2018 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* \u201cFrom Blake\u2019s \u2018Eternal Great Humanity Divine\u2019 to Confucian J\u016bnz\u01d0 \u541b\u5b50 as Consummate Humanity:<\/p>\n<p>Apophatic Paths between Post-Modern Secularity and Pre-Modern Divinity\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for the Conference \u201cBetween Humanity and Divinity: In Literature, Art, Religion and Culture\u201d of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)<\/p>\n<p>National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, October 20, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante between Philosophy and Philology (After the Theological Turn)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students<\/p>\n<p>Co-led with Prof. Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago<\/p>\n<p>Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library,<\/p>\n<p>Chicago, September 8, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante in Context\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panel discussion with Zyg Baranski, Ted Cachey, Justin Steinberg, Gary Cestaro, and Anne Leone<\/p>\n<p>Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library,<\/p>\n<p>Chicago, September 7, 2018. Cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutline of an Apophatic Approach to an Intercultural Philosophy of Universalism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>24th World Congress of Philosophy, Section 19: Intercultural Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>Beijing, August 13-20, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* \u201cVoice and the Taking Place of Language: Disrupting\u00a0the\u00a0Reflexive Cohesion of\u00a0Tradition\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Invited Theology and Poetry Workshop on \u201cTheology, Poetry, and Disruptive Voices\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St. Peter\u2019s College, Adelaide, Australia, June 18-20, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cPhilosophy, Theology, Poetry,\u201d Podcast Conversation with Kevin Hart and the Dean of St. John\u2019s Cathedral, Brisbane for \u201cOn The Way,\u201d with OMNY Studios, June 15, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cAt the Creative Source of the Arts: Poetry as Prophecy in a Negative Theological Key\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for \u201cTell it Slant: A Symposium on Theology and the Arts\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Centre for Public and Contextual Theology<\/p>\n<p>St. Francis Theological College of Charles Sturt University,<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane, Australia, June 15-17, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cPaths Beyond Words: The Ways of Unsaying in Early Modernity\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for Conference \u201cBeyond Words: The Unknowable and Unutterable in Early Modernity,\u201d Centre for Research on Early Modern Studies (CREMS) and Humanities Research Centre (HRC), University of York, UK, June 1, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cNegative Theology, Poetic Prophecy, and the Religious Bonding of Society\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture Series: \u201cLecturas sobre Religi\u00f3n y sociedad civil,\u201d Institute for Culture and Society<\/p>\n<p>Department of Philosophy, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, May 15, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante and the Crisis of Representation in the Modern Age\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MLA Panel on Crisis in Dante,<\/p>\n<p>Modern Language Association National Convention,<\/p>\n<p>New York City, January 7, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* \u201cHow to Read the Bible: Can Fundamentalists and Secularists be Brought into Dialogue?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presentation of <em>A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ecumenical Chaplaincy, Lake Forest Place,<\/p>\n<p>Lake Forest, Illinois, December 21, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cContemporary Apophatic Thinking and its Fields of Application\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guest Lecture for Critical Religion Research Group + Stirling Students Critical Religion Association,<\/p>\n<p>University of Sterling, Scotland, November 8, 2017 (via webcam)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cThe Other Italian Renaissance between Religion and Humanism: Dante to Vico\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop co-led with Prof. Rocco Rubini<\/p>\n<p>Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, October 13, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cPoetry as Prophecy: From Anthropological Origins to Postmodern Apocalypses\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for <em>The Prophetic Word: Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p>The Power of the Word International Conference V,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heythrop.ac.uk\/organisation\/research\/heythrop-institute-religion-society\">Heythrop Institute for Religion and Society<\/a> (Heythrop College, University of London) and the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture (Regent\u2019s Park College, University of Oxford)<\/p>\n<p>Regent\u2019s Park College, University of Oxford, England, September 13-16, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cTraum-Epistemologie und religi\u00f6se Offenbarung in Dantes <em>Vita nuova<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\u201cDream Epistemology and Religious Revelation in Dante\u2019s Vita nuova\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>Lecture for <em>Graduiertenkolleg \u201eEurop\u00e4ische Traumkulturen\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Universit\u00e4t des Saarlandes, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany, June 13, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWriting as Theophany: Dante\u2019s Scriptural Epiphany and the Medium as Metaphor for Immediacy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchrift und Graphisches im Vergleich,\u201d XVII. Tagung der DGAVL (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Vergleichende und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft),<\/p>\n<p>University of Bochum, Germany, June 6, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*\u201cApophatic Paths from Europe to China: Method and Mysticism in Intercultural Philosophy\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for Comparative Mysticism: Renewing a Neglected Project,<\/p>\n<p>Annual Conference of the Mystical Theology Network,<\/p>\n<p>University of Glasgow, Scotland, December 15, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cReligious Tradition and Interdisciplinary Humanities Studies in a (Post)Secular World\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB), Beijing, October 17, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cLiberal Arts Education as Learned Ignorance: From an East-Asian Vantage Point\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>60th ANNIVERSARY LECTURE, Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB),<\/h2>\n<h2>Beijing, October 14, 2016<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cApophatische Theologie und ihre Wirkung auf die neuzeitliche Philosophie\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Apophatic Theology and its History of Effect in Modern Philosophy] Summer Semester Block-Seminar,<\/p>\n<p>co-taught with Prof. Wilhelm Essler, Philosophy Department,<\/p>\n<p>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, August 2-6, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie vielen Sprachen der Literaturwissenschaft\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ICLA 2016 &#8211; Association Internationale de Litt\u00e9rature Compar\u00e9e\/International Comparative Literature Association &#8211; XXI. Kongress, 21. Juli \u2013 27. Juli 2016 \u2013 University of Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cUniversality of Knowledge and Specialization at the University: A Path from France to China\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for International Academic Conference to Inaugurate the School of Foreign Studies,<\/p>\n<p>Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB), Beijing, May 26, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagining Otherness as an Aporia for Comparative Philosophy: In Debate with Fran\u00e7ois Jullien\u201d<\/p>\n<p>21<sup>st<\/sup> Symposium: Imagination East and West<\/p>\n<p>Acad\u00e9mie du Midi, Alet-les-bains, France, May 15-21<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cBooks, Bread, and Bubbles:<\/p>\n<p>or How to Read Dante Backwards and Forwards in Time on the Way to China\u201d<\/p>\n<p>William Franke places his recent books in the context of an integrated philosophy of the humanities,<\/p>\n<p>Followed by a Critical Response to <em>The Revelation of Imagination <\/em>by Lenn Goodman, Andrew W. Mellon Prof. of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, April 6, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cThe Apotheosis of Self-Reflection: Dante and the Inauguration of the Modern Era\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANNUAL DANTE LECTURE<\/strong> at the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies,<\/p>\n<p>co-sponsored by the Devers Program in Dante Studies, University of Notre Dame,<\/p>\n<p>and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago<\/p>\n<p>Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, February 27, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cPoetry as Theology: New Theoretical Approaches to Dante\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop co-led with Prof. Vittorio Montemaggi<\/p>\n<p>Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, February 26, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2015\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cNegative Theology\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philippine Academy of Philosophical Research<\/p>\n<p>University of Santo Tomas (\u201cThe Catholic University of the Philippines\u201d),<\/p>\n<p>Manila, Philippines, December 6, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cTheological Revelation and Secular Reason:\u00a0Critical Proposals for a Meeting of Minds and Cultures,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Invited Lecture in Department of Philosophy, Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas<\/p>\n<p>Manila, Philippines, December 5, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong>\u201cThe Tradition of the Chinese Classics and the Idea of World Literature Today\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> (with simultaneous translation into Chinese) at International Symposium on \u201cThe Orient vs. The Occident: Cultural Exchanges and Influences,\u201d sponsored by Foreign Language Department of Capital University of Economics and Business, jointly organized by the Chinese People\u2019s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Capital International Culture Research Center of Beijing Language and Culture University, and the Comparative Literature Studies Center of Soochow University.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing, November 27-29, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Invited Speaker and Panelist for Session on \u201cNegative Theologies and Apophaticism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta, November 22, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Host and Moderator (with Xavier Garnier, Director of L\u2019Alliance Fran\u00e7aise, Macao)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversality and Cultural Difference between East and West\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philosophy Caf\u00e9 (public lecture\/discussion): Rui Cunha Foundation, Macao, February 11, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Invited Speaker and Panelist on \u201cLiberal Arts Education in the East-Asian University:<\/p>\n<p>The Unspeakable Basis of Comparative Humanities\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Symposium on \u201cLiberal Arts in the Age of Globalization,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>10<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Celebration of Underwood International College<\/p>\n<p>Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, October 28, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cApophatic Paths from Europe to Asia: A Personal Philosophical Journey\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Invited Lecture for Center for Zhouyi and Ancient Chinese Philosophy,<\/p>\n<p>Philosophy Department, Shandong University, China, October 20, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cNothingness and the Aspiration to Universality in the Poetic \u2018Making\u2019 of Sense:<\/p>\n<p>An Essay in Comparative East-West Poetics\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Is World Literature? Tension between the Local and the Universal<\/p>\n<p>An International Summit Dialogue and Forum<\/p>\n<p>School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, October 16-17, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cFrom the Globalism of Nature to the Universality of Thought: Bringing Universalist Ethics and Politics back into Ecological Harmony by the Apophatic Way\u201d<\/p>\n<p>27<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference of Philosophy (IAGP): Global Ethics and Politics (Invited Speaker)<\/p>\n<p>Vouliagmeni (Athens metropolitan coast), July 10-16, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cDie Apophase als Paradigma der belehrten Unwissenheit\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\u201cApophasis as Paradigm of Learned Ignorance\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>Cusanus-Tagung zur Thematik des Idiota bei Cusanus<\/p>\n<p>University of T\u00fcbingen, Germany, June 5-6, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCognitive Universality between Science and the Humanities\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PhilHist\u201915: History of Philosophy Conference on \u201cInteractions\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Research Centre)<\/p>\n<p>Istanbul, Turkey, May 14-16, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClassical Chinese Thought and the Sense of Transcendence\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Colloquium: Transcendence and Immanence in Intercultural Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>Program of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macao, March 20- 21, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Introduction and Roundtable for: \u201cWhat is Apophatic Thinking and Why is it Relevant\u00a0Today?<\/p>\n<p>Discussions around William Franke\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Philosophy of the Unsayable<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Philosophy Colloquium,<\/p>\n<p>Program of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macao, March 7, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cPhilosophical Universalism and the Role of China in the World Today\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philosophy Caf\u00e9 (public lecture\/discussion): Rui Cunha Foundation, Macao, February 11, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cNatural Cognition, Universals, and the Nothing of Religion\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE ADDRESS<\/strong> for \u201cCognition, Religion, and Science\u201d: A Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), co-sponsored by the Toronto Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion and the Philosophy and Religious Studies Program, University of Macao, January 13-14, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cImmanence versus Transcendence&#8211;A Key Controversy in Comparative Philosophy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Invited Lecture in Philosophy Colloquium series, Chinese University of Hong Kong,<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong, October 13, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cDante\u2019s Apophatic Vision and Classical Daoist and Confucian Wisdom: Methodological Reflections on Comparative Philosophy, Religion, and Literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dante and East Asia, Devers Program in Dante Studies<\/p>\n<p>University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, August 27-28, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cSelf-Reflection and the Theological Apotheosis of Lyric in the <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture at NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>, poetry, philosophy, and the city of Florence\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florence, July 21, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seminar on <em>Paradiso<\/em> VI-X and XI-XVIII<\/p>\n<p>NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>, poetry, philosophy, and the city of Florence\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Institute Leader, with Brenda Schildgen, et al.)<\/p>\n<p>Florence, July 18-22, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdentity and the Undefinable: What Escapes all Social Categorizations?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>14th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations<\/p>\n<p>Vienna, July 9-11, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philosopher\u00a0or the Sage? Apophaticism\u00a0in Europe\u00a0and China\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Symposium: Wisdom East and West<\/p>\n<p>Acad\u00e9mie du Midi, Alet-les-bains, France, June 8-14<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cPaul Among the Theorists: A Genealogy of the New Universalism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2014 Symposium of contributors to Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion<\/p>\n<p>University of Toronto, June 4-6, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Invited participant in Jungcusaner Symposium (\u201cWissensformen bei Nicolaus Cusanus\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Kueser Akademie f\u00fcr Europ\u00e4ische Geistesgeschichte<\/p>\n<p>Berncastle-Kues, Germany, May 26-28, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversalism and Transcendentality East and West: The Theological Anomaly\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critical Theory and the Way: Kantian Paradigms and Prospects in East Asia<\/p>\n<p>International Philosophy Symposium, University of Macao, May 8-10, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cKnowledge and the Humanities\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(With Dean Martin Montgommery, Chair Professor of English)<\/p>\n<p>Faculty Seminar for Faculty of Arts and Sciences,<\/p>\n<p>University of Macao, April 30, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cReligion and Literature: Method and Meaning or<\/p>\n<p>Porphyry\u2019s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Humanities Research Seminar in Religion and Literature<\/p>\n<p>Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 11, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRethinking Cultural Universality Today\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The International Institute of Knowledge Management<\/p>\n<p>Colombo, Sri Lanka (2014), April 3, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRethinking Cultural Universality Today and the Question of Theological Transcendence\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Conference on \u201cCultural Spaces, Cultures of Difference\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andrha Pradesh, India, 27-29 January, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Epic Wholeness to Anamorphic Imagination: A Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Colloquium on \u201cThe Force of Imagination\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University of Macao, December 14, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatural Cognition and its Cultural A Prioris: Macau as the Double Swinging Door between Cultures\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Introductory Address for International Conference on \u201cNatural Cognition: Logic, Evolution, Organisms\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Program in Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macau, December 14, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmphibolies of the Postmodern: Hyper-Secularity or the Return of Religion\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Annual International Conference on Advances in Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCS)<\/p>\n<p>Singapore, December 9-10, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u201cThe New Apophatic Universalism: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Deconstructive Critical Theories and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ASCP (Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy) Annual Conference<\/p>\n<p>Response Session to my paper, with respondent (Prof. Chris Hackett)<\/p>\n<p>University of Western Sydney, Paramatta, Australia, December 3-5, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cDes pistes apophatiques menant de l\u2019Europe en Chine: En cheminant avec Fran\u00e7ois Jullien\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bilingual (French-Chinese) Conference-Workshop with Fran\u00e7ois Jullien<\/p>\n<p>(with simultaneous translation into Chinese)<\/p>\n<p>Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, November 7-8, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON <em>DANTE AND THE SENSE OF TRANSGRESSION<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransgression and Transcendence: What Makes Religion Radical? A two-day symposium to discuss Prof. William Franke\u2019s book <em>Dante and the Sense of Transgression: \u2018The Trespass of the Sign\u2019<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Institute for Christianity and Culture,<\/p>\n<p>International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan, October 11-12, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cThe Humanities and the Ideal of Wholeness\u2014Epic Pasts, Partisan Presents, Plural Futures\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Speakers Series on \u201cThe Future of the Humanities\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cL\u2019\u00e9loge de la fadeur et la litote du neutre: Entre Fran\u00e7ois Jullien, Maurice Blanchot et Roland Barthes\u201d [The Eulogy of Blandness and the Litotes of the Neutral:<\/p>\n<p>Between Fran\u00e7ois Jullien, Maurice Blanchot, and Roland Barthes]<\/p>\n<p>Colloquium: \u201cDes possibles de la pens\u00e9e\u00a0: Autour des travaux de Fran\u00e7ois Jullien\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CERISY-la-Salle\u00a0(France), September 14-21, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThinking in the Gap between the Cultures of Greece and China: Apophatic Universalism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>23<sup>rd<\/sup> World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy as Inquiry and as Way of Life<\/p>\n<p>School of Philosophy, University of Athens, Greece, August 2-11, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgamben\u2019s Logic of Exception and its Apophatic Roots and Offshoots\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Conference \u201cExcept Asia: Agamben\u2019s Work in Transcultural Perspective\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University,<\/p>\n<p>Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-27, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cDante\u2019s Theology and Contemporary Thought,\u201d featured lecture-workshop at:<\/p>\n<p>International Seminar \u201cDante\u2019s Theology\u201d sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Leeds Center for Dante Studies, and the Devers Program for Dante Studies, University of Notre Dame,<\/p>\n<p>Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, June 21, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cAll or Nothing? The Question of Nature as Bond between the Chinese Classic Past and the Global Future,\u201d Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung sponsored Philosophy Colloquium:\u00a0 \u201cNature-Time-Responsibility,\u201d University of Macao (China), April 14, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPostmodern Identity Politics and the Social Tyranny of the Definable\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Third Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion, and Philosophy, IAFOR<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConnectedness and Alienation: The 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Enigma\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Osaka, Japan, March 30, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFran\u00e7ois Jullien and the Notion of Immanence: \u00a0Chinese compared with Western Thought and Culture\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong (ASAHK), 8<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Conference: \u201cTransformations, Development and Culture in Asia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University of Hong Kong, March 9, 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReligious Literature\u2019s Secular Vocation:\u00a0 Dante and Postmodern Thought\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conference on Italian Literature and Religion<\/p>\n<p>Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, October 11, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cTrauma and Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Forum for Advanced Research in English:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuffering in Literature and Trauma Studies\u201d<\/p>\n<p>English Department, University of Macao, August 23-26, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cDer \u00dcbergang zum \u201aanderen Zustand\u2018 als literarisches Motiv\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Invited Research Conference: \u201cEnde oder Umbau einer Erl\u00f6sungsreligion? Verschiebungen in der Vorstellung eines nicht nur endlichen, sondern \u2018ewigen\u2019 Lebens\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evangelisch-Theologisch Fakult\u00e4t, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, July 12-15, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New Apophatic Universalism: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Conference on Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality:<\/p>\n<p>New Dimensions of the European in Literature<\/p>\n<p>University of Bamberg, May 24, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cThe Art of Memory or the Forgetting of Art? The Visionary Moment in Dante and Blanchot\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for International Conference: \u201cMemory: Impressions, Expressions, Reflections: An Interdisciplinary Conference,\u201d The Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, March 28, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Apophatic Experiential Grounds of Philosophy of Religion\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wesleyan Philosophical Society, annual meeting on Philosophy and Religious Experience<\/p>\n<p>Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, March 1, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cChristian Figuralism and Kenosis: From Otherworldliness to the Becoming Worldly of Otherness\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MLA National Convention, Religion and Literature Section, Panel on \u201cSecularism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seattle, Washington, January 6, 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u201cThe Holistic Ideal of the Humanities and Religious Revelation:<\/p>\n<p>Linguistic-Cultural Diaspora or a New Universality?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures,<\/p>\n<p>University of Hong Kong, November 7, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cEpic Imagination and the Unlimited Vision of Literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Distinguished Lecture Series, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,<\/p>\n<p>University of Macao, October 27, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cReading Emily Dickinson: Three Approaches to One of her Poems,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>with linguist Martin Montgomery and translator Zhang Meifang, Department of English Seminar Series,<\/p>\n<p>University of Macao, October 21, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> \u201cL\u2019itin\u00e9raire du corps dans la <em>Divine com\u00e9die<\/em> de Dante\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cThe Itinerary of the Body in Dante\u2019s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Lecture and seminar for the Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic Institute of Paris, September 23, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> \u201cLe commencement et la fin de la philosophie dans le mysticisme apophatique:<\/p>\n<p>de Platon au postmodernisme\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cThe Beginning and the End of Philosophy in Apophatic Mysticism: From Plato to Postmodernism\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Lecture at colloquium on \u201cPhilosophie et Mystique: Autour de Stanislas Breton,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CERISY-la-Salle\u00a0(France), August 27, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cDante e la teologia negativa\u201d [Dante and Negative Theology]<\/p>\n<p>ISSR (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose),<\/p>\n<p>University of Urbino Carlo Bo, August 18, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanonicity, Creativity, and the Total Revelation of Literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hospitable Text Conference: New Approaches to Religion and Literature,<\/p>\n<p>London, July 14-17, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Paramount Importance of What Cannot Be Said in Public Theological Discourse\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Conference on Contextuality and Intercontextuality in Public Theology<\/p>\n<p>GNPT (Global Network for Public Theology)<\/p>\n<p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer Research Center for Public Theology<\/p>\n<p>University of Bamberg, June 24, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cA Philosophy of the Humanities: Their Classical Roots and Contemporary Relevance\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture sponsored by Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,<\/p>\n<p>University of Macao, May 5, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>KEYNOTE ADDRESS<\/strong>: \u00a0\u201c<em>Letargo<\/em> and the Argo: Total Forgetting as the Moment of Truth at the Climax of Dante\u2019s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em> and the Christian Epic Tradition\u201d<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Internationale Nachwuchstagung des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs: Generationenbewu\u00dftsein und Generationenkonflikte in Antike und Mittelalter: \u201cErfahren, Erz\u00e4hlen, Errinern: Narrative Konstruktionen von Ged\u00e4chtnis und Generation in Antike und Mittelalter\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[4th International Postgraduate Colloquium, \u00a0DFG [German Research Foundation]: \u201cRecord, Relate, Remember: Narrative Constructions of Memory and Generation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, March 2- 4, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Response to Mary Watt lecture, \u201cDante, Columbus, and Stigliani&#8217;s Mondo Nuovo: Literary construction and spiritual imperialism.\u201d Religious History Colloquium.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt Divinity School, September 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Mention It: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Poetics of \u2018Still Appreciation\u2019\u201d (read by Gary Stonum)<\/p>\n<p>Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) International Conference<\/p>\n<p>Oxford University, August 8, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>PLENARY ADDRESS<\/strong>: \u201cThe Scientific Paradigm and the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities\u201d<\/p>\n<p>12<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThought in Science and Fiction\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, August 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPorphyry and the Philosophical Interpretation of Literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Session on Literary Philosophy and Philosophical Literature<\/p>\n<p>ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas)<\/p>\n<p>Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, August 3, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetic Revelation:\u00a0 Between Language and Apocalypse\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular: Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse and Doubt in Contemporary English-Language Verse<\/p>\n<p>Facult\u00e9 de Philosophie et Lettres, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles<\/p>\n<p>Brussels, Belgium, May 7, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong>: \u201c\u2018Il Trapassar del Segno\u2019: Language and Transcendence in Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference of the Nordic Dante Network: \u201cDante and Transgression\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University of Tampere, Finland, August 20, 2009<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Canon Question and the Value of Theory: Towards a New Concept of Universality\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conference on National Literatures in the Age of Globalization: The Issue of Canon<\/p>\n<p>University of Bucharest, November 1, 2008<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExistentialism:\u00a0 A Christian Philosophy or the Ultimate Atheism?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fourth World Congress of Phenomenology:<\/p>\n<p>The Phenomenology and Existentialism of the Twentieth Century<\/p>\n<p>Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, August 18, 2008<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cLe <em>Paradis<\/em> de Dante et les conceptions monastiques du ciel au moyen \u00e2ge\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbaye Saint-Wandrille, Normandy, France, July 22, 2008<\/p>\n<p>+ \u00a0\u201cLecture du Ciel de Jupiter dans le <em>Paradis<\/em> de Dante,\u201d July 23, 2008<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcknowledging Unknowing: Stanley Cavell and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conference on Stanley Cavell and Literary Criticism<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh University, May 11, 2008<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetics of Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference,<\/p>\n<p>Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington November 2, 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> \u201cPorphyry and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Invited Lecture in the Institute for Classical Philology<\/p>\n<p>University of Salzburg, May 14, 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> \u201cA Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue:<\/p>\n<p>The Coincidence of Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Vorlesung auf Englisch abgehalten mit anschliesender Diskussion auf Deutsch)<\/p>\n<p>University of Salzburg, May 9, 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201dPostmodern Identity Politics and the Social Tyranny of the Definable\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee, Florida, February 3, 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ethical Posture of Post-Colonial Discourse in Edward Said and in Mahatma Gandhi\u201d<\/p>\n<p>9th International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory,<\/p>\n<p>Udaipur, Rajasthan (India), December 16, 2006<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> \u201cScripture as Theophany in Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2006 Annual Lecture in Religion and Literature,<\/p>\n<p>University of Notre Dame, October 30, 2006<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHabermas\u2019s Critical Reflexive Philosophy versus Premodern Poetic and Theological Reflexivity\u201d<\/p>\n<p>12<sup>th<\/sup> International Philosophy Colloquium: The Structure of Reflection\u2014Self-Conscioiusnes and Critique<\/p>\n<p>Evian, France, July 16-22, 2006<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019The Missing All\u2019: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Apophatic Poetics\u201d<\/p>\n<p>College English Association 37<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Conference,<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio, Texas, April 7, 2006<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdmond Jab\u00e8s, or the Name of God as the Vanity of Language in the Heart of Every Word\u201d<\/p>\n<p>XVIIth Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n<p>Stetson University, Deland, Florida, March 3, 2006<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cPrimordial Sacrifice, Typology, and the Theological Vocation of Literature in <em>Finnegans Wake<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture for Department of Comparative Literature Seminar Series, University of Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>December 5, 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetic Language, Apocalypse, and the Premises for Dialogue: How a Secular West Can Face Radical Islam.\u201d Worlds in Discourse: Representations of Realities, International Conference,<\/p>\n<p>Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia, November 21, 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201c\u2019Shadowy Prefaces\u2019:\u00a0 Literature, Theology, and the Philosophy of Unsaying\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture for Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong,<\/p>\n<p>November 8, 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Truth of Art in Time and in Eternity: Dante\u2019s <em>Divine Commedy<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conference on Art and Time, Australian National University, November 3, 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> \u201cThe Death of God and the Crisis of Values in Secular Modernity and Post-secular Postmodernity\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture Series on Culture, Value, and the Meaning of Life<\/p>\n<p>Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong, September 28, 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Heideggerian Reading of Prophetic Temporality in the <em>Aeneid<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Annual Convention<\/p>\n<p>Penn State University, March 11, 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Epistemology of the Humanities as Involved Knowing\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Assocation for Humanities Education 2005 Convention<\/p>\n<p>Richmond, February 25, 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Philosophical Criticism of Literature Can Do\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seventh Annual Comparative Literature Conference: \u201cThinking on the Boundaries: The Availability of Philosophy in Film and Literature,\u201d University of South Carolina, February 11, 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2004<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Place of the Proper Name in the Italian Topographies of the <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MLA (Modern Language Association) National Convention, Philadelphia, December 28, 2004<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApophasis and the Neoplatonic Interpretation of Religious Revelation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AAR (American Academy of Religion) National Convention. Platonism and Neoplatonism\u00a0Group.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio, November 21, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProper Names, Singularities, and the Unnameable in the Topographies of Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Names and the Unnameable: Literary Art and Spiritual Vision: 2004-05 Midwest Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Notre Dame University September 17, 2004<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTypological Re-Origination and the Theological Vocation of Poetry\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bloomsday 100: 19<sup>th<\/sup> International James Joyce Symposium<\/p>\n<p>Dublin, Ireland, June 14, 2004<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristian Epic Tradition and Theological Revelation in \u2018Finnegans Wake\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conference on Christianity and Literature<\/p>\n<p>Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, March 27, 2004<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNegative Theology in Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em> after Derrida and Levinas<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Medieval and Postmodern Intersections:\u00a0 NJCEA 27<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Conference<\/p>\n<p>Seton Hall University, March 20, 2004<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Interpretations of Joyce and Christian Epic\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miami Joyce Conference, January 30, 2004<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2003<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimary Metaphorization and the Origin of Language:\u00a0 Vico\u2019s Heritage\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Session on Italian Literature between Religion and Philosophy from Baroque Culture to Romanticism<\/p>\n<p>MLA national convention, San Diego, December 28, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante and the Secularization of Religion through Literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Division on Literature and Religion: Religion and the Rise of Literary Studies<\/p>\n<p>MLA national convention, San Diego, December 27, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Response to papers on \u201cThe Letter to the Romans Through the Ages\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Society for Biblical Literature at the AAR (American Academy of Religion) national convention<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta, Georgia, November 22, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s Ugolino, or Narrative as the Instrument of Sin\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Session on Ethics and Narrative<\/p>\n<p>PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Assoc.),<\/p>\n<p>Claremont College, November 8, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLe nom de Dieu comme vanit\u00e9 du langage au fond de tout mot selon Edmond Jab\u00e8s\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cThe Name of God as the Vanity of Language at the Bottom of Every Word according to Edmond Jab\u00e8s\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Colloque Jab\u00e8s at CERISY (Centre Internationale de Culture)<\/p>\n<p>Cerisy-la-Salle, France, August 19, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMystical Rhetorics of Silence: Medieval to Modern\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sixth International Literature and Humanities Conference: \u201cInscriptions in the Sand,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Cyprus, June 1, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul Celan\u2019s Immemorial Silence\u201d<br \/>\nACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) annual convention:\u00a0 \u201cCrossing Over\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Marcos, California, April 5, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNegative Theology in the Neoplatonic Parmenides-Commentary Tradition<\/p>\n<p>and as Revived in Contemporary Apophatic Forms of Thinking\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism (SCAP)<\/p>\n<p>American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 31, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirgil\u2019s Invention of History as Prophecy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comparative Literature Conference: \u201cImagining Rome\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California State University, Long Beach, March 15, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante: Prophet and Pioneer of Secular Humanism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conference on Humanism, SUNY Stony Brook, February 28, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Philosophy of the Unsayable:\u00a0 Apophatic Discourses from Plato to the Postmodern\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt Philosophy Colloquium, October 11, 2002<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoyce\u2019s Typology and the Theological Vocation of Poetry\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International James Joyce Symposium, session on Joyce and the Bible<\/p>\n<p>Trieste, Italy, June 21, 2002<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Writing of Silence in Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan and Edmond Jab\u00e8s\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phenomenology and Literature Conference:\u00a0 Aesthetics of Mystery in Poetry, Novel, Drama and Film<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 9, 2002<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirgil\u2019s Invention of History as Prophecy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Classical Association of the Atlantic States, session on Augustan Latin Poetry<\/p>\n<p>Cherry Hill, New Jersey, April 27, 2002<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2001<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Singularity, Alterity, and the Unspeakable: Apophasis in Post-Holocaust Poetry and<br \/>\nThought.\u201d\u00a0 International Phenomenological Symposium: \u201cSingularity-Subjectivity-The Other\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perugia, Italy, July 17, 2001<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn What Cannot Be Said: Significances of Silence in Society, Philosophy, Religion, Literature and<\/p>\n<p>the Arts,\u201d McGill Philosophy Discussion Hour<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt, April 2, 2001<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cDante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em> and the Poetics of Unsayability\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presentation at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, November 18, 2000<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTopografie italiane come metafore dell\u2019altro mondo nel <em>Paradiso<\/em> dantesco\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cItalian Topographies as Metaphors for the Other World in the <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>XVII Conference of\u00a0 A.I.S.L.L.I. (Associazione Internationale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana) on the topic \u201cLe Dimore della Poesia\u201d (\u201cThe Dwellings of Poetry\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Gardone Riviera (Brescia), Italy, June 3, 2000<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s Poetics of Exile\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Dante Seminar, invited as \u201cdiscussant\u201d by Societ\u00e0 Dantesca Italiana<\/p>\n<p>Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, June 9-11, 2000<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Exodus Epic:\u00a0 History and Ritual\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2000 Association for Core Texts and Curriculums (ACTC) Sixth Annual Conference<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco, April 15, 2000<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheological Apocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue in Literature:\u00a0 Some Political and Poetic Proposals for the New Millennium,\u201d Comparative Literature Colloquium,<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt, January 25, 2000<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1999<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lyric Poetics of the <em>Paradiso<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1999 South Atlantic MLA Convention, Atlanta, November 6, 1999<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Inferno <\/em>as a Humanities Text:\u00a0 The Interpretive Journey and the Allegory of Reading\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1999 Association for Core Texts and Curriculums (ACTC) Fifth Annual Conference<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans, April 11, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPoetry as Apocalypse and as Negative Theology:\u00a0 Dante to Paul Celan and Wallace Stevens\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture for the Department of French and Italian and Committe on Graduate Studies<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana State Universtiy, March 19, 1999<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLanguage as Exile:\u00a0 The Poetics of Ineffability\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(French Graduate Conference on \u201cExile,\u201d read for me in absentia by Prof. Patricia Ward)<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt University, February 26, 1999<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1998<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoyce and Christian Epic Tradition:\u00a0 Linguistic Repetition and Theological Revelation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>XVI International James Joyce Symposium<\/p>\n<p>Rome, June 18, 1998<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProphecy Eclipsed:\u00a0 <em>Hamlet<\/em> as a Tragedy of Knowledge\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1998 Association for Core Texts and Curriculums (ACTC) Fourth Annual Conference<\/p>\n<p>University of North Carolina, April 19, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s Address to the Reader <em>en face <\/em>Derrida\u2019s Critique of Ontology\u201d<\/p>\n<p>XXII Annual Phenomenology and Literature Congress,<\/p>\n<p>The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University, April 16, 1998<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheory of the Symbol in French Symbolist Poetry:\u00a0 Baudelaire\u2019s Heirs\u201d<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019\u00e8re de Baudelaire:\u00a0 Symposium Honoring Claude Pichois<\/p>\n<p>W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire Studies, Vanderbilt University, April 4, 1998<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante and Derrida:\u00a0 Ontology and Hermeneutics\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philosophy Colloquia Series, Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt University, February 20, 1998<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1997<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s Vision of Scripture in the Heaven of Jove\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1997 MLA Conference:\u00a0 Medieval\/Renaissance Italian Division<\/p>\n<p>Toronto, December 30, 1997<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colloquium for History and Critical Theories of Religion Program,<\/p>\n<p>The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt University, 3 December, 1997<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetry Between Metaphysics and Negative Theology:\u00a0 From Dante to Celan\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Symposium on The Tradition of Metaphysical Poetry and Belief, November 1, 1997<\/p>\n<p>Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, Brigham Young University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s Comet:\u00a0 Apocalyptic Poetry and its After-Sparks\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Symposium on History, Apocalypse and the Secular Imagination<\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia, September 19, 1997<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Evening Around William Franke and his <em>Dante\u2019s Interpretive Journey<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Religious Studies Department, Vanderbilt University, September 8, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumanities Knowledge and the Bible\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1997 Association for Core Texts and Curriculums (ACTC) Third Annual Conference<\/p>\n<p>Temple University, April 11, 1997<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1996<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s Address to the Reader and Derrida on Address\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1996 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference on \u201cLiterature Between \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Philosophy and Cultural Studies,\u201d University of Notre Dame, April 12, 1996<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPetrarch, Bocaccio, and the Waning of Dante\u2019s Hermeneutic Horizon\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval -Renaissance Studies,<\/p>\n<p>Sarasota, March 14, 1996.\u00a0 Session Chair:\u00a0 Lee Patterson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1995<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cResurrection and the Like: Historical Tradition and Revelation According to Dante Alighieri.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture at the Graduate Center for Medieval Studies, Medieval History Series,<\/p>\n<p>University of Reading, England, May 26, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1994<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruth and Interpretation in the <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ninth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval -Renaissance Studies,<\/p>\n<p>Sarasota, Florida, March 11, 1994<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1993<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante and the Poetics of Religious Revelation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MLA Special Session on \u201cLiterature and the Concern for Truth\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto, December 28, 1993<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeidegger and the Greeks\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seminar at Collegium Phaenomenologicum<\/p>\n<p>Perugia, Italy, August 1993<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante, Gadamer and the Question of Suprahistorical Truth\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Hermeneutics Symposium<\/p>\n<p>Heidelberg, July 2-4, 1993<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1992<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeidegger on Heraclitus\u2019 Logos Fragment\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Workshop in program of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum,<\/p>\n<p>Perugia, Italy, August 1992<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>\u00a0 as Prophetic Poem\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pair of lectures in Great Works Series at Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt University, April 10, 1992<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDante\u2019s Address to the Reader and its Resonance with Contemporary Theories of Interpretation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Symposium in Comparative Literature on Dante and Modernism<\/p>\n<p>University of Tulsa, March 27, 1992<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1991<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sign of the Swan and the Polysemous Dove:\u00a0 Incarnational Poetics in Dante and Mallarm\u00e9\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University, June 10, 1991<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorical Sense and Reader\u2019s Historicity in the <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture for the Medieval Studies Forum<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University, May 29, 1991<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlind Prophecy:\u00a0 Milton\u2019s Figurative Mode in <em>Paradise Lost<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conference on Christianity and Literature<\/p>\n<p>Santa Clara University, May 3, 1991<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Polysemous Dove: Truth and Interpretation in the <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lecture for The Program in Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University, January 25, 1991<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LANGUAGES<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Modern<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Italian (perfectly fluent)<\/p>\n<p>French (perfectly fluent)<\/p>\n<p>German (perfectly fluent)<\/p>\n<p>Spanish (fluent)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Ancient<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Greek<\/p>\n<p>Latin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Medieval<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Middle English<\/p>\n<p>Old French<\/p>\n<p>Occitan (Langue d\u2019oc)<\/p>\n<p>Middle High German<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Asian<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Mandarin Chinese (basic speaking)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(University-level 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French Theory and Apophatics (Fall 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At University of Macao, China (2013-2015):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>English Grad Special Topics.\u00a0 Philosophy and Literature (Spring 2013)<\/p>\n<p>English Grad Special Topics.\u00a0 Criticism as Philosophy (Fall 2013)<\/p>\n<p>English Grad Special Topics.\u00a0 Religion and Literature (Spring 2014)<\/p>\n<p>Philosophy Ph.D Special Topics.\u00a0 Self-Reflexivity (Fall 2014)<\/p>\n<p>Philosophy Ph.D Special Topics.\u00a0 Universals and Universalism (Spring 2015)<\/p>\n<p>Philosophy Ph.D Special Topics.\u00a0 Comparative Literature and Philosophy (Fall 2015)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DIV 3910-01 \/ RLST 243\u00a0 Paul and Postmodern Political Theologies (Spring 2010)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DIV 3910-01\u00a0\/ REL 3910-01 \/\u00a0RLST 294\u00a0 Apophatic Theology and Culture (Fall 2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FR 256.\u00a0 Existentialisme en Philosophie, Litt\u00e9rature et Th\u00e9ologie<\/p>\n<p>(At Vanderbilt-in-France, Fall 2008)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VORLESUNG. Postmodernreligionsphilosophien <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Postmodern Philosophies of Religion] (At University of Salzburg, Spring 2007)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CONVERSATORIUM. Apophatische oder negative Theologie in der Kultur<\/p>\n<p>[Apophatic or Negative Theology in Culture] <strong>(At University of Salzburg, Spring 2007)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CONVERSATORIUM. Dantes <em>Paradiso<\/em> im theologischen Hinblick<\/p>\n<p>[Theology Perspectives on Dante\u2019s <em>Paradiso<\/em>] <strong>(At University of Salzburg, Spring 2007)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DIV 388\/FR\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Post-Modern Theory:\u00a0In the Wake of the Death of God\u00a0 (Fall 2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>LECTURE COURSE.\u00a0 Postmodernism<\/p>\n<p>(At University of Hong Kong, Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2005)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/bE74s0\/CLT%20360%20Philosophy%20and%20Literature.doc\">CLT 360\u00a0Philosophy and Literature: Philosophical Criticism of Literature\u00a0 (Spring 2005)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/cJMY8g\/CLT%20341%20Introduction%20to%20Literary%20Theory%20and%20Criticism.doc\">CLT 341 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism: Current Trends\u00a0 (Fall 2003, 2004)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/dPsROw\/CLT%20340%20Introduction%20to%20Literary%20Theory%20and%20Criticism.doc\">CLT 340 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism: Classic Texts and Traditions (Spring 2003, 2004)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/eA0O0U\/The%20Writing%20of%20Silence.doc\">CLT 355\u00a0The Writing of Silence \u00a0(Spring 2002)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/lmqz16\/CLT%20355%20Mystical%20Rhetorics%20of%20Silence%20from%20Plotinus%20to%20John%20of%20the%20Cross.doc\">CLT 355 Mystical Rhetorics of Silence from Plotinus to John of the Cross\u00a0(Fall 2001)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/g0OFb2\/CLT%20355%20On%20What%20Cannot%20Be%20Said.doc\">CLT 355-03 On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Theology, Philosophy, and Literature (Spring 2000)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/beVMf6\/CLT%20355%20Poetics%20and%20Politics%20of%20the%20Origin%20of%20Language.doc\">CLT 355 Poetics and Politics of the Origin of Language (Spring 1999)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/hGdzLq\/CLT%20355%20The%20Unnameable%20and%20the%20Sublime.doc\">CLT\/French 355\u00a0 The Unnameable and the Sublime<\/a>\u00a0 (Fall 1999)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/iLTtrG\/CLT%20355%20Metaphor.doc\">CLT\/English 355\u00a0 Metaphor<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(Spring 1998)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/eV8LuM\/CLT%20350%20Applications%20and%20Emergencies%20of%20Literary%20Theories.doc\">CLT 350\u00a0 Postcolonial Criticism and Theory:\u00a0 Applications and Emergences of Literary Theories (team-taught with Margaret Doody)\u00a0 (Fall 1998)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/eV8LuM\/CLT%20350%20Applications%20and%20Emergencies%20of%20Literary%20Theories.doc\">CLT 350 The Soul:\u00a0 Applications and Emergencies of Literary Theories (team-taught with Margaret Doody)\u00a0\u00a0 (Fall 1997)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/ggaidy\/Fall%201996%20CLT%20327%20The%20Structuralist%20Paradigm%20and%20its%20Transformations.do\">CLT 327\u00a0 The Structuralist Paradigm and its Transformations (Spring 1997)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/ehWV8c\/Hermeneutics.doc\">CLT \/ Philosophy 345\u00a0 Hermeneutics (repeated 1992-1997)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MAEA 38 Philosophy and Literature (MA seminar at University of Macao)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MAEA 39 Religion and Literature (MA seminar at University of Macao)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD. Dissertations Directed<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Peter Kline (Divinity): \u201cPassion for Nothing: Kierkegaard\u2019s Apophatic Theology\u201d (2016)<\/p>\n<p>David Dark (Religious Studies): \u201cInsert Soul Here:\u00a0The Witness\u00a0Sacramental Poetics\u00a0as Apocalyptic for the People\u201d (2011)<\/p>\n<p>Yong Chen (Religious Studies): &#8220;On the Rhetoric of Defining Confucianism as a \u2018Religion\u2019: A Hermeneutic Reading of the Controversy on Confucian Religiosity and its Significance to the Understanding of Chinese Tradition and Modernity&#8221; (2005)<\/p>\n<p>Donald Holman (Comparative Literature): &#8220;The Death of Dionysos: Formative Experience and Human Autonomy in <em>Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre<\/em>&#8221; (2004)<\/p>\n<p>Heather Garrett (French): &#8220;Nothing to Say. Disclosures of Silence in 20th Century French Narrative&#8221; (2004)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Scott Hubbard (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Original Sins: Philosophical Appropriations of Agency and Meaning in the Greek Tragedians&#8221; (2002)<\/p>\n<p><strong>University of Macao, supervision of PhD students:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Francesco Carpanini<\/p>\n<p>Paul Man<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Le Jeune<\/p>\n<p>Liui Yue<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>University of Macao, supervision of post-doc fellows and senior research fellows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karl-Heinz Pohl<\/p>\n<p>Nahum Brown<\/p>\n<p>Dvir Melnik<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ph.D. Dissertation Committees: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Megs Webster (English and Creative Writing, Murdock University, Western Australia): \u201c\u2018Words\u00a0fail\u00a0but\u00a0meanings\u00a0still\u00a0exist\u2019:\u00a0Exploring\u00a0the\u00a0relationship\u00a0of\u00a0apophasis\u00a0to\u00a0poetic\u00a0practice\u201d (2020)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Abell (French): (2020)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jason Smith (Divinity): \u201cEucharist as the Gift of Political Language\u201d (2018)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Belkis E. Barrios (Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt): \u201cLiteratura y cine hisp\u00e1nicos del siglo XXI: La<\/p>\n<p>di\u00e1spora y el desenga\u00f1o en el <em>Bildungsroman<\/em> del nuevo milenio\u201d [&#8220;Hispanic Literature and Film of the Twenty-First Century: Diaspora and Disillusion in the latest versions of the Bildungsroman&#8221;] (2018)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chance Woods (English): \u201cThe Elusive Corpus: Reading the Catholic Mystical Body in Seventeenth-Century England\u201d (2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edward Eh (University of Macao, Philosophy): \u201cAquinas, Confucius, and Intellectual Virtue: A Comparative Account of <em>Prudentia<\/em> and <em>Cheng<\/em>\u201d (2015)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Guan Beibei (Hong Kong University, European Studies), \u201cThe Dandy and the Historical Ragpicker: A Study of Contrary Responses to Modernity of Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin\u201d (2014)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Menghun Goh (Religious Studies): \u201cThe Middle Voice of Love in 1 Corinthians:\u00a0 Reading Singularity and Plurality from Different Cultures\u201d (2014)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Campana (German):\u00a0 \u201cViolent Black Oceans: Literary Border Crossings in a Global Age, 1990-2005\u201d (2014)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>David Dault (Divinity):\u00a0 &#8220;The Covert Magisterium:\u00a0 Theology, Textuality and the Question of Scripture&#8221; (2008)<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Schlee (German): \u00a0&#8220;Poetry as Compass: Chaos, Complexity and the Creative Voice&#8221; (2007)<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Bauer (Spanish): \u00a0&#8220;Madness and Laughter: Cervantes&#8217;s Comic Vision in Don Quixote&#8221; (2007)<\/p>\n<p>James Burt Fulmer (Religious Studies): &#8220;Identities Bought and Sold, Identity Received as Grace: A Theological Criticism of and Alternative to Consumerist Understanding of the Self&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Brian McGinnis (German): &#8220;Reading the Moral Code: Theories of Mind and Body in Eighteenth-Century Germany&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Braley (Religious Studies): &#8220;Bringing God to Mind: Christian Theology in Light of the Critical Study of Religion&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Justine Van Meter (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Writing the Dying and the Dead: Irishness, Jewishness and Gender&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9 Sousan (Divinity): &#8220;<em>The Woman in the Garden of Eden: A Rhetorical-Critical Study of Genesis <\/em>2:4b-3:24 (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Azucena Garcia-Marcos (Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid): &#8220;Una Approximacion psychoanalytica a la obra de Francisco de Goya&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Shirin Edwin (French): &#8220;N\u00e9gocier pour survivre: La repr\u00e9sentation de l\u2019islam dans les productions romanesques francophones de l\u2019Afrique de l&#8221;Ouest (1950-2002)&#8221; (2005)<\/p>\n<p>Apel Ygrek (Philosophy): &#8220;Virile Expenditure: A Study of Bataille\u2019s Transgressive Erotics&#8221; (2004)<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Costales (Spanish): &#8220;<em>No Hay Cosa Como Callar<\/em>: Una Edic\u00edon Critica&#8221; (2004)<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Barnard (French): &#8220;Marginality and Mixed Marriages in the Works of Albert Memmi&#8221; (2003)<\/p>\n<p>R. Philip O\u2019Hara (Divinity): &#8220;Economics of the <em>Basileia Tou Theou<\/em> in Mark&#8221; (2002)<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9cile Guillard (French): &#8220;Baudelaire malgr\u00e9 tout: La pr\u00e9sence de Baudelaire dans l\u2019oeuvre de Ives Bonnefoy&#8221; (2002)<\/p>\n<p>Terresa Stricklen (Divinity): &#8220;Preaching and Theology in Light of Theological Education: The Early History of a Troubled Marriage or What Went Wrong How&#8221; (2001)<\/p>\n<p>Brett Davis (Philosophy): &#8220;On the Way to Gelassenheit: The Problem of the Will and the Possibility of Non-Willing in Heidegger\u2019s Thought&#8221; (2001)<\/p>\n<p>Ken Himmelman (Comparative Literature): &#8220;&#8216;Beyond the Compass of Time&#8217;: The Fragmented Universe and the Rise of Modern Science Fiction, 1600-1740&#8221; (1998)<\/p>\n<p>Darren Hutchinson (Philosophy): &#8220;A Song of Solipsism: Wittgenstein and the End of the World&#8221; (1996)<\/p>\n<p>Greg Carey (Religious Studies): &#8220;Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation of John&#8221; (1996)<\/p>\n<p>Gian Balsamo (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Legitimate Filiation and Gender Segragation: Law and Fiction in Texts by Derrida, Hegel, Joyce, Pirandello and Vico&#8221; (1994)<\/p>\n<p><strong>MA Theses directed (or co-directed):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hunter Bragg (Divinity): \u201cKierkegaard, Indirect Communication and Performativity\u201d (2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jason Moore (Divinity): \u201cJean-Luc Nancy\u2019s Material Ontology: Disenclosure, Apophasis, and the World of Bodies\u201d (2013)<\/p>\n<p>Wong Kar Kei Jenny, \u201cThe Challenge of Modernity and Italo Calvino\u2019s Literary Responses: An Examination of the Relationship between Humanity and the World and Literature as a Reconciling Force,\u201d External Examiner, University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities (2012)<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Smelser (Master Theological Studies): \u201cChristian Hermeneutics in the \u2018Now\u2019 and the \u2018Not Yet\u2019 of God\u2019s Logos: Embodying Christ through Kenosis in Comparative Theological Readership\u201d (2010)<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Thornton (Religious Studies):\u00a0 \u201cJob and Philosophy\u201d (2010)<\/p>\n<p>Zachery Gershom (Divinity):\u00a0 \u201cOrthodox Akatathan Liturgy and Apophasis\u201d (2010)<\/p>\n<p>Eric Froom (Philosophy):\u00a0 \u201cKierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and Philosophical Doubt\u201d (2007)<\/p>\n<p>Burt Fulmer (Interdisciplinary Studies): &#8220;Rene Girard and the Exorcism of the Possessed Consumer&#8221;\u00a0 (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Natalia Mikailovitch (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Transforming the Language: Translation as Exile and Hermeneutic Dialogue&#8221; (2005)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Nasatir (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Burning Shadow: The Poetic Image of Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca in English-Language Poetry&#8221; (2000)<\/p>\n<p>Laura Matter Fukeshima (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Reproducing Catullus: Translation and the Polymetrics&#8221; (2001)<\/p>\n<p>Matt Burleson (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Traces of Heidegger in Crista Wolf\u2019s Cassandra&#8221; (2000)<\/p>\n<p>Michel Le Grand (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Modernist Poetics of Paul Valery, Pedro Salinas&#8221; (1995)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SERVICE<\/strong> (current and representative activities)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principal Administrative Positions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Program Head of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macao, 2013-15<\/p>\n<p>Faculty Executive Committee, University of Macao, 2013-15<\/p>\n<p>Dante Society of America, Executive Council, 2007-2010<\/p>\n<p>Interim Chair of Comparative Literature Program, Vanderbilt, 2004-2005<\/p>\n<p>Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) in French, Vanderbilt, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Department<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hiring committee for lecturer in Italian, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Designing generic Great Works courses for French and for Italian, F 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Observing and evaluating courses in Italian, F 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organized Fireside Chat of poet B\u00e9atrice Machet at McTyeire, October 13, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Invited Zygmunt Baranski, Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge, for two lectures:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPasolini\u2019s <em>Uccellini e Uccellacci<\/em>: Histories of Italy\/Histories of Cinema\u201d 9-30-2010<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s so New about the Vita Nova?\u201d 10-1-2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McTyeire faculty advisor for French, 2015-2017 + recruiting for French 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>French and Italian department futures committee 2015-2016, 2016-2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>French Graduate Examinations Committee, 2016, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Italian Curriculum Committee, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To College<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McTyeire International House language-learning residential education program direction as the live-in French Hall coordinator. Entailed daily activities with students in target language and organizing dorm-wide events including international deserts night and parties for foreign-culture holidays. Fall 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Advisory Board of the Max Kade Center for German and European Studies<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Committee for Promotion to tenure of Prof. Richard McGregor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To University<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Together with a new colleague in Italian (Anna Marra) I conceived and organized a new lecture series (Annual Dante Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University) and gave the inaugural lecture, November .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faculty-in-residence at McTyeire International Hall (for Italian, German, French, and<\/p>\n<p>Spanish) 1992-2012.\u00a0 Faculty Advisor for French Hall 2016-17<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Principal Organizer for international conferences at University of Macao:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is Apophatic Philosophy and Why is it Relevant Today\u201d (2015).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmanence and Transcendence in Intercultural Philosophy\u201d (2015)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritical Philosophy and the Way:\u00a0 A Symposium on Kantian Paradigms and Prospects in East Asia\u201d (2014)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faculty reviewer for the 2017 GEO (Global Education Office) Scholarship Review Committee<\/p>\n<p>Faculty reviewer for the 2018 GEO (Global Education Office) Scholarship Review Committee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Profession<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reviews for Brill, <em>Poetics Today<\/em>, <em>Literature and Theology<\/em> (2022)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>co-leader\/convener for<\/p>\n<p>Internationale Vereinigung f\u00fcr Germanistik (IVG)<\/p>\n<p>XIV. Kongress<\/p>\n<p>Wege der Germanistik in transkulturellen Perspektiven<\/p>\n<p>Palermo 26.07.-02.08.2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Review of fellowship application for the American Academy in Berlin (2016-17)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>External Assessor for Promotion to full professor of philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University (2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tenure Review Committee &amp; Promotion to Associate Professor of Italian, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Consultant for Thomas Riggs &amp; Company and The Gale Group<\/p>\n<p>For Dante\u2019s <em>Vita Nuova<\/em> in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC) series<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Consultant for Thomas Riggs &amp; Company and The Gale Group<\/p>\n<p>For Augustine\u2019s <em>Confessions<\/em>, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC) series<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>External Reviewer for internal transfers of staff to Philosophy within Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macao, for Dr. Wan, Dr. Jia, and Dr. Chen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Executive Board Member of Dante Society Council of the Dante Society of America<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tenure Review Committee for Promotion to Associate Professor of Italian, Notre Dame University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Referee for Promotion to Full Professor of Italian, University of Chicago<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Referee for Promotion to Full Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tenure Review Committee &amp; Promotion to Associate Professor of Italian, Wayne State University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tenure Review Committee for Promotion to Associate Professor of Italian, Princeton University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Referee for the Dante Prize (undergraduate essay contest) and Grandgent Prize (graduate essay<\/p>\n<p>contest)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Referee of Grant Proposals for American Philosophical Association and Louisiana State<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Member of advisory board of <em>Enthymema: Rivista di teoria, critica e filosofia della letteratura<\/em>;<\/p>\n<p>and of <em>Hermeneutica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reader of manuscripts for Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Routledge, University of Toronto Press, SUNY Press, Fordham University Press, <em>Modern Theology, Philosophy of Rhetoric, Christianity and Literature, PMLA<\/em>, <em>Journal of Religion, Acta Academica,<\/em> Swiss National Science Foundation, Sage Publications, Gale\u2019s <em>Literature of Society<\/em> series, <em>Journal of European Studies,<\/em> <em>International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Analysis <\/em>(OUP)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Consultant for Thomas Riggs &amp; Company and The Gale Group<\/p>\n<p>for <em>Manifesto in Literature, Literature of Propaganda, Literature of Autobiography<\/em><\/p>\n<p>for <em>Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism<\/em>, vol. 179: Dante, <em>Vita Nuova<\/em><\/p>\n<p>for<em> Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism<\/em>, vol. 186: Augustine, <em>Confessions<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and for <em>Edmond Jab\u00e8s<\/em> in the Twentieth Century Literary Criticism series<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cover endorsements for:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Johannes Aakj\u00e6r Steenbuch, <em>Negative Theology: A Short Introduction<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2022)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Van Dyke, <em>Poetic Creation: Language and the Unsayable in the Late Poetry of Robert Penn <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Warren <\/em>(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Silversmith,<em> Redshift Blueshift <\/em>(Gival Press, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paolo A. Bola\u00f1os, <em>Nietzsche and Adorno on Philosophical Praxis, Language, and Reconciliation: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Towards an Ethics of Thinking <\/em>(Lexington Books, 2020),<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Studies in Idealism series<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Denis Turner, <em>God, Mystery and Mystification<\/em> (Notre Dame University Press, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Giambattista Vico, <em>The New Science, <\/em>trans. Jason Taylor and Robert Miner, introduced by<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Mazzotta (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beibei Guan and Wayne Cristaudo, <em>Baudelaire Contra Benjamin: A Critique of Politicized <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism<\/em> (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elliot R. Wolfson, <em>The Duplicity of Philosophy\u2019s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and the Jewish Other <\/em>(New York: Columbia University Press, 2018)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>William D. Melaney, <em>Alterity and Criticism: Tracing Time in Modern Literature<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peter Kline, <em>Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard\u2019s Apophatic Theology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas J. J. Altizer, <em>Satan and Apocalypse: And Other Essays in Political Theology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(New York: SUNY Press, 2017)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>William Desmond, <em>The Intimate Universal: The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Philosophy, and Politics <\/em>(New York: Columbia University Press, 2016)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah L. Alberg, <em>Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses: Reading Scandalous Texts <\/em>(East<\/p>\n<p>Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Cristaudo, <em>A Philosophical History of Love<\/em> (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gian Balsamo, <em>Il libro del respiro<\/em> (Italy: Robin Edizioni, 2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimabooks.it\/the-book-of-breathing\">http:\/\/www.ultimabooks.it\/the-book-of-breathing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Virginia Burrus, Mark D. Jordan, Karmen MacKendrick, Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires,\r\n\r\n\u00a0Confessions (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010)\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Christine O\u2019Connel Bauer, <em>Dante&#8217;s Hermeneutics of Salvation: Passages to Freedom in the Divine Comedy<\/em>\u00a0(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Francis J. Ambrosio, <em>Dante and Derrida: Face to Face<\/em> (New York: SUNY Press, 2007)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Co-Organizer:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Co-Organizer for Internationale Vereinigung f\u00fcr Germanistik (IVG), XIV. Kongress<\/p>\n<p>Wege der Germanistik in transkulturellen Perspektiven, Palermo 26.07.-02.08.2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Co-Organization of invited lecture at Vanderbilt University by Federico Canaccini (Princeton<\/p>\n<p>University):\u00a0 \u201cGuelf and Ghibelline in the Age of Dante,\u201d November 15, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Co-Organizer of Group session of ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association) triennial Congress at University of Vienna, 21-27 July, 2016. Stream: Sprache der Migration. Migration der Sprache. 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