critical theory

Matthew Walker

Contact:

Sweet Hall, 2nd Floor, 222A
mwalker7@stanford.edu

Office Hours:

By Appointment (On Sabbatical Fall 2012 Quarter)

Matthew Walker received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages & Literatures (with a minor in Critical Theory) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010. Before coming to Stanford, Matthew taught for two years at the University of Pennsylvania as a visiting lecturer in Russian language, literature and culture, and he has also taught in the Russian School at Middlebury College. His main research interests are nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and the history of aesthetics and literary criticism in Russia and Europe.

Education:

Ph.D., Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
B.A., Russian & English Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996

Adam Morris

Contact:

ajmorris@stanford.edu

Office Hours:

by appointment

Research:

20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature; comparative literature of the Americas; critical theory; philosphy and literature; Marxist cultural studies; translation.

Published work has addressed the literature of Mario Bellatin, César Aira, Clarice Lispector, João Gilberto Noll, Diamela Eltit, and Fernando Pessoa.

Selected writing and translation:

Morris, Adam. "Fair Warning: Julian Assange's Cypherpunks." The Los Angeles Review of Books. 28 April 2013.

Morris, Adam. "Whoever, Whatever: On Anonymity as Resistance to Empire." parallax 18.4 (October 2012): 106-20.

Morris, Adam. "A Departure from Reason: César Aira's The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira." The Millions 16 October 2012.

Morris, Adam. "Drone Warfare: Tiqqun, The Young-Girl and the Imperialism of the Trivial." The Los Angeles Review of Books. 30 September 2012.

Morris, Adam, and Lúcia Rosa. "Recycling Literary Culture: A Conversation with Lúcia Rosa." Public Books 18 June 2012.

Morris, Adam. "The Brazilian Bird of Prey: Four New Translations of Clarice Lispector." ZYZZYVA 5 June 2012.

Morris, Adam. "Micrometanarratives and the Politics of the Possible." CR: The New Centennial Review 11.3 (Winter 2012) 91-117.

Forthcoming:

"With My Dog-Eyes" by Hilda Hilst. Introduced and translated by Adam Morris. Excerpt in BOMB. Summer 2013.

Morris, Adam. "This Product Made From Post-Consumer Content: Narrative Recycling and New Novelistic Economies." Forthcoming in Criticism. 2013.

Morris, Adam. "Fernando Pessoa's Heteronymic Machine." Forthcoming in The Luso-Brazilian Review. Expected 2013.

Education:

BA, English Literature; Swarthmore College.

Language(s):

Portuguese

Language(s):

Spanish

Document(s):

morris.micrometanarratives_and_the_politics_of_the_possible.cr_11.3pdf.pdf

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Contact:

111 Pigott Hall
650 723 4713
jpdupuy@stanford.edu

Professor Jean-Pierre Dupuy is a Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the École Polytechnique, Paris. He is the Director of research at the C.N.R.S. (Philosophy) and the Director of C.R.E.A. (Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée), the philosophical research group of the École Polytechnique, which he founded in 1982. At Stanford University, he is a researcher at the Study of Language and Information (C.S.L.I.) Professor Dupuy is by courtesy a Professor of Political Science.

In his book The Mechanization of the Mind, Jean-Pierre Dupuy explains how the founders of cybernetics laid the foundations not only for cognitive science, but also artificial intelligence, and foreshadowed the development of chaos theory, complexity theory, and other scientific and philosophical breakthroughs.

Education:

1964-1966: Ecole des Mines de Paris
1960-1962: Ecole Polytechnique
Admitted to le Corps des Mines
July 1960: Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm-sciences)

Language(s):

French

Russell Berman

Contact:

Building 260, Room 201
Phone: 650 723 1069
berman@stanford.edu

Office Hours:

M 10:00-11:00 and by appointment

Focal Group(s):

Humanities Education

Focal Group(s):

Philosophy and Literature

Curriculum Vitae:

Berman.cv.pdf

Professor Berman joined the Stanford faculty in 1979. In 1982-83 he was a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard, and in 1988-89 he held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Berlin. In 1997 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany. Professor Berman is the editor of the journal Telos.

Education:

1979: Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis 
1972: B.A., Harvard University

Language(s):

German

Website URL:

http://www.telospress.com