Dr. Andre Ondino Furlani, PhD

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
Poetics, rhetoric, and critical theory

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 of Postmodernism

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 (2015)

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

Articles (peer-reviewed)

“Saint Urbain’s Quiet Revolutionary.” Canadian Literature 248 (summer 2022):158-69

“Elizabeth Bishop’s Animal Manners.” Essays in Criticism 70:4 (October 2020):428-46.

“Flânoter: The Montreal Pedestrian Narrates.” Canadian Literature 236 (Spring 2019): 69-88

“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 191.1 (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.” 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)

“A se stesso: Leopardi in Beckett’s Post-RomanticAgony.” Davide Crosara, ed. SamuelBeckett’s Italian Romanticisms.New York: Routledge (forthcoming)

*“Samuel Beckett’s Time Pieces.” Teresa Valentini,Angela Weiser and John Zilcosky, eds. Resistance through Time in Narrative Forms.Toronto: U of Toronto P (forthcoming)

La Flâneuse montréalaise translates.” Tong King-Lee,ed. The Routledge Guide to Translation  and the City. New York: Routledge (2021): 351-72

“Postwar North American Classics.” The Oxford History of the Classical Reception in English   Literature, vol. 5. Kenneth Haynes, ed. Oxford: Oxford UP (2019): 472-503

“Montreal’s Third Spaces on Foot.” Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life. Sherry Simon, ed. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2016: 249-72.

“’That Mad (?) Mathematician’: Beckett Reckoning with Wittgenstein.” Literatures in English: New Ethical, Cultural, and Transnational Perspectives, Wolfgang Zach, ed. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2014: 107-22 “’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

Reviews

recent review essays

“Robert Walser, UncannyMiniaturist on the Move.” The EuropeanLegacy 28:5 (winter 2023): 533-38

 “These Books Were Made for Walking.” The European Legacy 28:3-4 (Spring2023): 410-16

“Elementary Beckett.” Irish Studies Review 30.2 (Spring 2022):222-27

“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

Annabel Abbs, Windswept: Walking the Paths of TrailblazingWomen. The European Legacy 28:6(spring 2023): 675-68

Galina Kiyushina, ed. Samuel Beckett and Technology. Litteraria Pragensia 32:63 (June 2022):103-11

Ben Green, The Smart Enough City. The European Legacy 27:6 (Winter 2021):645-47

Geoff Hamilton, A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia inNative American Literature from Occom to Erdrich.The European Legacy 27:5 (Fall 2021):512-14

Alan Warren Friedman, Surreal Beckett. Irish Studies Review 29:3 (Winter 2021): 396-99

Édouard Magessa O’Reilly, The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Molloyand Dirk Van Hulle, The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Fin de Partie. European Legacy 27:5 (Winter 2020):490-93

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

Conference papers (peer reviewed)

Recent Invited Lectures

“Walking towards Genre onthe Concordia Campus.” Concordia U, Montreal QC, 22 Oct. 2022

“James Joyce from Home Ruleto the European Community.” Embassy of Ireland, Ottawa, ON, 15 May   2022

“Joycean Anniversaries.”McGill U, Montreal, QC, 13 June 2022

“A Chair in Professional Development.” Centre for Teaching & Learning Symposium, Concordia U, Montreal, QC, 31 Jan. 2020

“Precarious Labour in English Departments.” Canadian Ass. of Chairs of English Conference, U of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., 31May 2019.

“Diversity in Academic Leadership.” Canadian Ass. of Chairs of English Conference, U of British  Columbia, Vancouver B.C., 30 May 2019.

“Codes of Conduct, Modes of Misconduct.” Canadian Ass. of Chairs of English Conference, U of Regina, Regina, Sask, May 26 2018

“What You Learn about Chairing by Playing Santa.” Canadian Ass. of Chairs of English Conference, U of Regina, Regina, Sask, May 25 2018

 “Le sens de la marche montréalaise.” Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises, McGill U, Montreal, QC,26 April 2018

“Around the Mountain with Hugh Hood.” The Writers’ Chapel, Montreal, QC 3 Oct. 2017

“A Few Don’ts for Diversity Hiring.” Canadian Association of Chairs of English, Ryerson University, Toronto ON, 26 May 2017

“In the Wake of Ulysses.” School of 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 Collagist Composition, 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