Dr. Andre Furlani, PhD

Chair, English
Associate Professor, English

Biography    Teaching activities    Selected publications    Participation activities   

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

Anglo-American, Irish and European Modernism
American Postmodernism
Modern and Contemporary Comparative Literature
Contemporary Canadian literature
Philosophy and literature
Poetics, rhetoric, and critical theory

Grants

SSHRC 2003-06, individual research grant:
Beckett and Modern German Philosophy

Research groups

Mordecai Richler Library research group

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

Book (peer reviewed)

Beckett after Wittgenstein. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press (November 2015)

Guy Davenport: Postmodern and After. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press (2007)

Articles (peer-reviewed)

"The Contradictions of Samuel Beckett. Modernism/ modernity 22:3 (Sept 2015): 449-70

"Earlier Wittgenstein, Later Beckett. Philosophy and Literature 39:1 (April 2015): 64-86

”The Literature of Exhausted Justification,” PMLA 127.1 (January 2012): 38-57

“Robert Allen’s Cantons de l’est Encantadas.” Canadian Poetry 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 (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.” Contemporary Literature 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 Vladimir Nabokov’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)

"Postwar American Classics and the Classics.” The Oxford History of the Classical Reception in English Literature, vol. 5, Kenneth Haynes, ed. Oxford: Oxford UP (forthcoming)

“Montreal’s Third Spaces on Foot.” Translation and Memory across the Urban Divide, Sherry Simon, ed. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP (forthcoming) 

“’Wince and Sing:’ Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘In the Village.’” Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Place and Memory, Sandra Barry, Gwen Davies and Peter Sanger, eds. Halifax: Gaspereau Press, 2001: 175-86

“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

Entries

"Guy Davenport." The Encyclopedia of 20th Century Fiction. Patrick O'Donnell, ed. New York: Gale (2011)

“Ezra Pound and Anglo-Saxon Literature.” The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia, Stephen J. Adams and Demetres Tryphonopoulos, eds. Westport, Conn: Greenwood P, 2006: 12-14

“Denise Levertov.” A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Burt Kimmelman, ed.  New York:Facts on File, 2005: 326-9

“John Murrell,” “William Valgardson,” “Anne Chislett,”“Steven Scobie,” “John Reibetanz,” “Steven Heighton,”“Michael Hollingsworth,” and “Antonino Mazza.” The Reader's Encyclopedia of  Canadian Writing, W.H. New, ed. Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 2003

Reviews

review essays

Samuel Beckett, The Collected Letters of Samuel Beckett, vol. III: 1957-1965. Modernism/ modernity 22:1 (March 2015): 183-91

“Echoes of Samuel Beckett”:Samuel Beckett, Echo’s Bones,Katherine Weiss, The Plays of Samuel Beckett, Peter Fifield and DavidAddynton, eds. Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, and Peter Fifield, Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emanuel Levinas, Irish Studies Review 22.4 (December 2014): 590-97

reviews

Charles Altieri, Reckoning with the Imagination. Modernism/modernity forthcoming)

Dirk Van Hulle, ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett. Irish Studies Review 24:3 (forthcoming)

“Oh les beaux jours à Montréal.” The Beckett Circle (forthcoming)

Matthew Feldman, ErikTonning and Henry Mead, eds. Broadcastingin the Modernist Era. Modernism/modernity 22:4 (November 2015)

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

Jan Zwicky, Forge and Steven Price, Year of the Ox. Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 184-86

Stephen John Dilks, Samuel Beckett in the Literary Marketplace and David Tucker, Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx. Irish Studies Review 21.4 (Oct. 2014): 490-94

John Champagne, Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy. Modernism/Modernity 21:3 (Sept. 2014): 860-62

Dirk van Hulle and Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett’s Library. Irish Studies Review 22:1 (Feb. 2014): 256-69

Matthew Feldman and Karim Mamdani, eds. Beckett/Philosophy.Modernism/modernity 20:3 (Sept. 2013): 599-601

Mark Nixon, Beckett’s German Diaries. Irish Studies Review 21:1 (Feb.2013):134-36

Robyn Sarah, Pause for Breath and Rob Budde, Declining America. Canadian Literature (Summer 2011): 86-87           

Suzanne Buffam, The Irrationalist. Matrix 86 (Summer 2010): 57-58

“Here, There, and Nowhere”: Roy Miki, There, Michael Moore, Museum Absconditum, and Carl Leggo, Come-By-Chance. Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 175-77

Alain-Michel Rocheleau, Bertolt Brecht et la nouvelle communication. Canadian Review of        Comparative Literature 18 (Spring 2004): 108-13

“Two Weddings and a Funeral.” Canadian Literature 61 (Spring 2004): 163-64

Jim Neilson, Warring Fictions: American Literature and the Vietnam War. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (2003): 212-15

Howard Brick, Age of Contradiction: American Ideology and Culture in the 1960s. Canadian Review of  Comparative Literature 17 (Winter 2003): 102-6

Steven Heighton, The Admen Fall on Lhasa. Journal of Canadian Poetry 14 (1999): 162-65

Conference papers (peer reviewed)

Invited Lectures

“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 Classicsand Classicism.” U of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 8 July 2012

“Breaking the ‘Law of Contradiction.’” U of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25 April       2012

“Davenport and Pound: MorePisan Cantos.” 20^th Century Lit. Conference, U of   Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 28 February 2011

“Beckett’s Language Games.”Montreal inter-university colloquium, “(Un)doing National Literatures,” Concordia University, May 12 2007

“Guy Davenport’s Postmodern Pastorals.” Modern Language Ass. of America, Washington D.C., 28 December 2005

“How Is a Poem Like A Riddle?” Concordia U, Montréal, March 15, 2002

“Socrates in America,” Department of EnglishColloquium, Concordia U, Montréal, Québec, November 27, 1997

“Seamus Heaney’s Bog People,” Department of English Colloquium, Brock U, Saint           Catherine’s,Ontario, June 6, 1997

“ElizabethBishop’s Memory Primer.” Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Place and Memory, Acadia U, Wolfville, N.S., Sept. 25, 1998

“Virginia Woolf and the Community of Age,” 8^thAnnual Virginia Woolf Conference, Saint Louis U, Saint Louis, Missouri, June 7, 1998

“Language and Midwifery in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy,”Ass. of Cdn. College and  U Teachers of English Ass. Conference, U of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, May 27, 1998

 “The Socratic Elenchus in Modern Fiction,” International Society for the Study of Rhetoric,     U of Saskatoon, Saskatoon,Sask, July 21,1997

“Guy Davenport and the American Neomodernist Pastoral,” Dept. of English Colloquium,      University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. March 1, 1997

“’I Wanted Her Perplexity’: Aporia in James’s The Sacred Fount,” Narrative Conference, Ohio State U, Columbus, Ohio, April 25, 1996

“Heller’s Debt to Beckett,” International Beckett Festival, U of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. May 3, 1996

“Evasive Self-Interrogation in Melville and Heller,”Americanist Conference,  U of Toronto, Toronto, ON,  March 9, 1996

“Apophatic Rhetoric in The Cloud of Unknowing,”Ass. of Cdn. College and U Teachers of English Ass. Conference, U du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, May 30, 1995