Dr. Andre Ondino Furlani, PhD
Full Professor, English
Fellow, School of Irish Studies
| Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 2354 |
| Email: | andre.furlani@concordia.ca |
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Education
PhD in English, University of Toronto 1993
MA in English, Queen’s University, 1988
BA Honours English, Queen’s University, 1984
Research and teaching interests
American, Irish, British and European Modernism
American Postmodernism
Modern and Contemporary Comparative Literature
Contemporary Canadian literature
Teaching activities
2020-21:
ENGL602/2 Pedestrian Poetics
ENGL389/2 History of Literary Criticism and Theory
IRST398 E/4 James Joyce
2019-2020:
onsabbatical
VisitingScholar, Bishop’s University: ENG 348 The Egotistic Sublime
2018-2019:
ENGL 627/1 The Anxiety of Confluence: AmericanFemale Literary Mentorship
ENGL 389/2 History of Literary Criticism
ENGL 450/4 Moore, Plath, Bishop
2017-2018:
ENGL602/1 Pedestrian Poetics
ENGL446/4 Beckett and Modern Drama
LBCL298-SCOL 388/2: Great Thinkers (one week section)
2016-2017:
ENGL355/2: James Joyce
ENGL636/1: Samuel Beckett, Playwright
LBCL298-SCOL 388/2: Great Thinkers (one week section)
2015-2016:
ENGL 349/3: Modern Poetry in English
ENGL 640/4: A Postmodern Apprenticeship:Nabokov and Pynchon
2014-2015:
ENGL 340/3: Modernism
ENGL 360/2: The American Postmodern
ENGL 640/4: Ulysses and Its Wake
2013-2014:
ENGL 340/3: Modernism
ENGL 260/2: Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 629/4: The Theatre of Samuel Beckett
2012-2013:
ENGL 365/2: American Literature since WorldWar II
ENGL 260/2: Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 355/4: American Poetry
ENGL 629/4: Lines Made by Walking
2010-2011:
ENGL 629/1: Further Peregrinations
ENGL 260/2: Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 349/4: Modern Poetry
ENGL 389/4: History of Literary Criticism
2009-2010:
ENGL 340/3: Modernism
ENGL 629/2: Postmodern Peregrinations
2008-2009:
ENGL 363/2: American Literature to the End of the 19thCentury
ENGL 632/4: American Modernist Poetry of the 1940s
2007-2008:
ENGL 261/2: British Literature to 1660
ENGL 349/4: Modern Poetry
ENGL 389/4: History of Literary Criticism
ENGL 627/2: Postwar British Drama
2006-2007:
ENGL 345/4: Modern Drama
ENGL 390/4: Rhetoric
ENGL 449/2: The American Postmodern
ENGL 632/2: The Modernist Long Poem
2005-2006:
ENGL 349/3: Modernism
ENGL 446/2: Henry James: The Late Phase
ENGL 626/4: The Contemporary Long Poem in English
2004-2005:
ENGL 261/4: Modern Poetry
ENGL 449/2: The American Postmodern
ENGL 640/4: Beckett and Philosophy
ENGL 261/4: British Literature to 1660
2002-2003:
ENGL 264/2: Introduction to Literary Studies: Genre
ENGL 298Q: British Literature 1660-1900
ENGL 449/4: The American Postmodern
ENGL 625/2: Modernist Poetry and Poetics
2001-2002:
ENGL 627/2: James Joyce
ENGL 645/4: British Poetry since World War II
ENGL 279/3: Modern British and American Literature
2000-2001:
ENGL 633/4: The New American Poetry, Now and Then
ENGL 272/3: Introduction to English Literature II
ENGL 345/2: Modern Drama
1999-2000:
ENGL 449/2: The American Postmodern
ENGL 272/3: Introduction to English Literature II
1998-99:
ENGL 631/1: The American Modernist Long Poem
ENGL 625/2: A Modernism of Their Own: The FemaleModernists
ENGL 627/4: Postmodernist Fiction
ENGL 306/3: Modern British and American Literature
1997-98:
ENGL 625/4: Beckett, Nabokov and the Emergence ofPostmodernism
ENGL 309/2: Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 306/3: Modern British and American Literature
Selected publications
Book (peer reviewed)
Guy Davenport: Postmodern and After. Evanston Ill: Northwestern University Press (2007)
Articles (peer-reviewed)
“Walking towards Genre: The Pedestrian Excursus.” Journal of Modern Literature 45.2 (forthcoming)
“Elizabeth Bishop’s Animal Manners.” Essays in Criticism 70:4 (October 2020):428-46.
“Flânoter: The Montreal Pedestrian Narrates.” Canadian Literature236 (Spring 2019): 69-88
“Beckett from the Talking Cure to the Walking Cure.” Bréac 2.3 (September 2017) 5,792 words
“The Contradictions of Samuel Beckett.” Modernism/modernity 22.3 (September 2015): 449-70
“Earlier Wittgenstein, Later Beckett.” Philosophy and Literature 39.1 (April 2015): 64-86
“Samuel Beckett: The Literature of Exhausted Justification,” PMLA 127.1 (January2012): 38-57“Robert Allen’s Cantons de l’est Encantadas.” CanadianPoetry 64 (Spring 2009): 48-66
“Guy Davenport and the Archival Imagination.” New England Quarterly 28.1 (Winter 2007): 59-72
“Jan Zwicky: Lyric Philosophy Lyric.” Canadian Literature 191.1 (Winter 2006): 48-69
“Davenport and Sebald’s Arts of Excursus.” The Literary Imagination 8.2 (Spring 2006): 72-93
“Paul Celan with Anne Carson: ‘What Kind of Withness Is That?’” Canadian Literature 172 (Spring 2003): 63-92
“Postmodern and After: Guy Davenport.” ContemporaryLiterature 43.4 (Winter 2002): 709- 35
“The Sacred Fount in Plato’s Cave.” University of Toronto Quarterly 71.3 (Summer 2002): 721-34
“Elizabeth Bishop’s Memoirs of Childhood: Writing the Disaster.” Critique 43.2 (Winter 2002):148-60
“’When Novelists Become Cubists’: The Prose Ideograms of Guy Davenport.” Style 36.1 (Spring 2002):111-30
“Canadian History on Stage: Three Rebellions.” Canadian Literature 168 (Spring 2001): 57-83
“Bartleby the Socratic.” Studies in Short Fiction 34 (1997): 335-56
“Samuel Beckett’s Molloy: ‘Spartan Maieutics.’” Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 5 (October 1996): 103-22
“’Elenctic Tones:’ Socratic Method in VladimirNabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.” English Studies in Canada 22 (September 1996):283-96
“’In Place:’ Kairos in Samson Agonistes.”The Seventeenth Century 10. 2 (March 1996): 19-35
“‘Brisk Socratic Dialogues’: Elenctic Rhetoric in Joseph Heller’s Something Happened.” Narrative 3.3 (October 1995): 252-70
Book chapters (peer reviewed)
La Flâneuse montréalaise translates.” Tong King-Lee,ed. The Routledge Guide to Translationand the City. New York: Routledge (forthcoming)
“Postwar North American Classics.” The Oxford History of the Classical Receptionin English Literature, vol. 5. KennethHaynes, ed. Oxford: Oxford UP (2019): 472-503
“Montreal’s Third Spaces on Foot.” Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes CityLife. Sherry Simon, ed. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2016: 249-72.
“’Wince and Sing:’ Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘In the Village,’” Short Story Criticism 151, Jelena Krstovic, ed. New York: Gale Publishing, 2011: 27-34. Rpt.
“Wittgensteinian Elegies.” Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky, Mark Dickinson and Clare Goulet, eds. Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2010: 50-59. Rpt.
“’Yours Be the Speech’: Ronald Johnson’s Milton.” Ronald Johnson: Life and Works, Joel Bettridge and Eric Selinger, eds. Orono: National Poetry Foundation (2008): 73-98
“Guy Davenport’s Pastorals of Childhood Sexuality.” Curiouser: Essays in Pre-Adolescent Sexuality, Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004: 325-44
“Obstetric Rhetoric and Tropes in Beckett.” The Beckett Papers, Anthony Jenkins and Juliana Saxton, eds. Victoria, B.C.: U of Victoria P, 1997: 76-85
“’My Real Smash’: Elenctic Negation in Henry James’ The Ambassadors,” in Negation, Critical Theory and Postmodern Textuality, Daniel Fischlin, ed. Amsterdam:Klewer, 1994: 137-59
Reviews
recent review essays
“Elementary Beckett.” Irish Studies Review (forthcoming)
“These Books Were Made forWalking.” The European Legacy (forthcoming)
“At Home with Beckett: Notes from the Lockdown.” Journal of Beckett Studies 29.2 (2020): 261-67.
“Elegies for Theory.” The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 46.1 (July 2019): 164-70
“Samuel Beckett in Theory and Practice.” Irish Studies Review 24:2 (May 2016):224-29
Samuel Beckett, The Collected Letters of Samuel Beckett. Modernism/ modernity 22:1 (March 2015): 183-91“Echoes of Samuel Beckett.” Irish Studies Review 22.4 (December 2014): 590-97
recent reviews
Édouard Magessa O’Reilly, The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Molloyand Dirk Van Hulle, The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Fin de Partie. Irish Studies Review (forthcoming)
Alan Warren Friedman, Surreal Beckett. Irish Studies Review (forthcoming)
Ben Green, The Smart Enough City. The European Legacy (forthcoming)
Anthony Cordingley, Samuel Beckett’s How It Is: Philosophy inTranslation. Comparative Literature Studies 57.4 (fall 2020): 775-77
Jonathan Bate, How Classics Made Shakespeare. The European Legacy (winter 2020)
S.E. Gontarski, Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn. Irish Studies Review28.1 (February 2020): 146-49.
Rhys Tranter, Samuel Beckett’s Late Stage. The European Legacy 24.7 (spring 2020):246-51.
Christopher Langlois, Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature.The Comparatist 43 (October 2019): 382-85.
Dirk Van Hulle and Pim Verhulst,eds. The Making of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Enattendant Godot’ and The Making of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Malone meurt’.Irish Studies Review 27.1 (Feb 2019):153-56.
“En attendant Godot in a Montreal Hourglass.” Journal of Canadian Irish Studies (winter 2018)
Justin H. Smith, The Philosopher: A History in Six Types.The European Legacy 23.7-8 (fall 2018): 872-74.
Samuel Beckett, The Letters of Samuel Beckett, vol. IV:1966-89. Irish Studies Review26.2 (May 2018): 281-84.
David Thompson, The Travels, 1848 Version and The Collected Writings of Pierre-EspritRadisson vol. II. Canadian Literature 232(Spring 2017): 175-77.
Alain Badiou, Pierre Bourdieuet al. What Is A People? The European Legacy 23:1-2 (February 2018).
Bethany Hicok, Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil. Modernism/modernity 24:2 (April 2017):405-8.
Charles Altieri, Reckoning with the Imagination. Modernism/modernity 23:3 (September 2016):706-9.
“Oh les beaux jours à Montréal.” The Beckett Circle (September 2016)
Patrick O’Neill, Transforming Kafka. Canadian Literature 226(Autumn 2015): 236-40.
Matthew Feldman, ErikTonning and Henry Mead, eds. Broadcastingin the Modernist Era. Modernism/modernity 22:4 (November2015): 839-42.
Michael Harris, The End of Absence. Canadian Literature 224 (Spring 2015): 124-26.
Jan Wilm und Mark Nixon, Hgr. Beckett und die deutsche Literatur. Journal of Beckett Studies 24.1 (April 2015): 142-48
Gianni Vattimo, The Responsibility of the Philosopher. The European Legacy 20: 4 (April 2015): 217-21
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Endarkment: Selected Poems. Matrix (April 2015): 64-71
Sherry Simon, Cities in Translation. English Studies in Canada 40:2-3 (March2015): 216-20
Francesco Bono, a cura di. Mann/Visconti: Un Confronto. Modernism/modernity 21:4 (Nov. 2014): 936-41
Yves Lamonde, The Social History of Ideas in Québec 1760-1896. Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 168-71
Participation activities
Conference papers (peer reviewed)
Recent Invited Lectures
“A Chair in ProfessionalDevelopment.” Centre for Teaching & Learning Symposium, Concordia U, Montreal, QC, 31 Jan. 2020
“Precarious Labour inEnglish Departments.” Canadian Ass. of Chairs of English Conference, U of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., 31May 2019.
“Diversity in AcademicLeadership.” Canadian Ass. of Chairs of English Conference, U of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., 30 May 2019.
“Codes of Conduct, Modes ofMisconduct.” Canadian Ass. of Chairs of English Conference, U of Regina, Regina, Sask, May 26 2018
“What You Learn aboutChairing by Playing Santa.” Canadian Ass. of Chairs of English Conference, U of Regina, Regina, Sask, May 25 2018
“Le sens de la marchemontréalaise.” Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en étudesmontréalaises, McGill U, Montreal, QC,26 April 2018
“Around the Mountain withHugh Hood.” The Writers’ Chapel, Montreal, QC 3 Oct. 2017
“A Few Don’ts for DiversityHiring.” Canadian Association of Chairs of English, Ryerson University, Toronto ON, 26 May 2017
“In the Wake of Ulysses.” Schoolof Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, 16 June 2016
“Converge or Merge?Interdisciplinarity and Departmental Mergers.” CACE Annual Conference, University of Calgary, 27 May 2016
“Lines Made from Walking.”Ogden Glass Memorial Lecture, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, 10 March 2016
“Oral Formulaic as CollagistComposition, from Homer to Eliot,” Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, 9 March 2016
“Closing Remarks: Monstrous Impositions,” Graduate English Colloquium, Concordia University, 5 March 2016
“Eros and Archive: Irving Layton,” panel organizer and speaker, Concordia University, 1 Dec. 2015
“Mordecai Then and Now: Richler on Set.” Concordia U, 25 September 2015
“Beckett’s Joyce.” School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia U, 15 June 2015
“Wilde, Joyce, Stoppard.” Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, Montreal, 12 April 2015
“Beckett: Pilgrim’s Gress.” Dept. of English Faculty Colloquium, Concordia U, 30 January 2015
“Beckett’s Walking Cure.”Ireland and Psychoanalysis conference, St. Mary’s U, Halifax N.S., 23 August 2014
“Cognitive Ulysses.” McCord Museum, Montreal, 14 June 2014
“Postwar American Classics and Classicism.” U of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 8 July 2012
“Breaking the ‘Law of Contradiction.’” U of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25 April 2012
Recent Conference Papers
“Elizabeth Bishop’s Oils.”Comparative Literature Annual Conference, U of Toronto, 5 Nov 2020.
“‘Hors d’ici, c’est la mort’: the Epidemics of Samuel Beckett.” At Home with Beckett, Online Conference, 9 May 2020.
“Beckett Reads Italian Romanticism.” Beckett and Italy, Reading U, Reading UK, 6 Nov. 2019
“The Anxiety of Confluence:Moore, Bishop, Plath.” ACCUTE Conference, U British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., 2 June 2019
“In Defense of the Academic Code of Conduct” ACCUTE Conference, U of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., 1 June 2019
“Walking Time.” Comparative Literature Annual Conference, U of Toronto, Toronto Ont., 29 March 2019
“The Montreal Pedestrian Narrates.” ACCUTE Conference, U of Regina, Regina Sask., May 27 2018
“La Flâneuse Montréalaise.” International Conference on Narrative, McGill U, Montreal QC,April 20, 2018
“Beckett: Within the Normal.” Beckett Studies Annual Conference, St. Mary’s U, Halifax NS, July 29 2017
“Elizabeth Bishop’s Animals.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Ryerson U, Toronto ON, 29 May 2017
“Montreal Fiction Afoot.”Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, U of Calgary, Calgary, May 28 2016
“Beckett’s ‘Minor Key’Romanticism.” Ass. of Cdn. College and U Teachers of English, Brock U, St. Catherine’s, May 25 2014
“Maritime Elizabeth Bishop.”Thomas Raddell Memorial Conference, Acadia U, Wolfville NS, 6 July 2013
“Beckett’s Footfalls.”Samuel Beckett: Forms and History conference, St. Mary’s U, Halifax, 28 June 2013
“Sebald and Heaney on Pilgrimage.” MLA convention, Boston,6 Jan. 2013
“Let your digits do the walking: Pedestrian Art, Digital Technology.” New Directions in the Humanities Conference, Montreal,14 June 2012