Professor of French
Lyons Hall 204C
Telephone: 617-552-8497
Email: kevin.newmark@bc.edu
Nineteenth and twentieth-century prose and poetry; literary theory, and the relations between literature and philosophy.
Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History), Special Co-Editor and Contributor,聽Yale French Studies聽125 & 126, 2014.
Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers, by Paul de Man, ed. with E.S. Burt and Andrzej Warminski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, (Paperback reprint, 1996).
Apart茅: Conceptions and Deaths of S酶ren Kierkegaard, by Sylviane Agacinski, translation from the French with Critical Introduction and Notes. Tallahassee: Florida State Press, 1988.
Phantom Proxies: Symbolism and the Rhetoric of History, Special Editor and Contributor,聽Yale French Studies聽74, 1988.
淧aul de Man,� in聽Dictionnaire Maurice Blanchot, eds. Michael Holland and Hannes Opelz, Paris: Classiques Garnier, forthcoming, 2025.
淭aking Care: Of Kierkegaard Incomparable Lily Discourses,� in聽Kierkegaard and the Poetry of the Gospel: Essays on the Lily Discourses, eds. Frances Maughan-Brown and Rick Anthony Furtak, Bloomsbury Press, 2025, 219-234.
淟e Monde est parti: Notes sur la litt茅rature et 榣a vraie vie� (L茅vinas, Rimbaud, Celan, Derrida),�聽Parade sauvage, Revue d櫭﹖udes rimbaldiennes, Num茅ro 35, Winter, 2024, 147-174..
淧arting Ways: With Werner Hamacher,澛�Cultural Critique, No. 118, Winter, 2023, 172-216.
淏audelaire Other Passer-by,� in聽Baudelaire and Other People, eds. Maria Scott and Alexandra Wettlauffer, L橢sprit Cr茅ateur, 58:1, 2018, 17-31.
淣ow You See It, Now You Don檛: Baudelaire聽惭辞诲别谤苍颈迟茅,"听Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 44:1-2, November, 2015, 1-24.
淩eading as a Desperate Practice,� in聽Poets as Readers, eds. Joseph Acquisto, Adrianna Paliyenko, and Catherine Witt.聽London:聽Institute of Modern Languages Research, Fall, 2015, 227-45.
淔or When the Time Comes: Poetry, Prose, Mourning,澛�Yale French Studies聽(co-editor of special double issue,聽Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 200-217.
淩esponding To/Answering For: The Secret,� by Jacques Derrida. Translation from the French. In Yale French Studies (Special Double Issue:聽Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 7-29.
"To Keep Intact the Secret: Sylviane Agacinski: Reading Kierkegaard," in聽Kierkegaard Influence on Philosophy: Francophone Philosophy, ed. Jon Stewart. Abington, Oxon: Ashgate Press, 2012, 1-21.
"Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing," in聽The Political Archive of Paul de Man: Property, Sovereignty and the Theotropic, ed. Martin McQuillan. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2012, 91-102.
"A Poetics of Sharing: Political Economy in a Prose Poem by Baudelaire,"听Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, special Issue devoted to the work of Jacques Ranci猫re, Guest Editor, Joseph Tanke, 15:2, Fall, 2011, 57-81.
"Who Needs Poetry? Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the Modernity of 'Le Cygne,'"聽Comparative Literature, 63:3, Summer, 2011, 269-290.
"Dark Freedom: On J.M. Coetzee's聽Disgrace," in聽Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, ed. Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi. New York: Routledge Press, 2011, 296-306.
�Accomplir juste: La Lettre-D茅dicace 樏� Ars猫ne Houssaye�,澛燚epartment of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2025.
淧rose Poetry and the Right to a Modern Death: Baudelaire 楿ne mort h茅ro茂que�,澛燚epartment of French, Columbia University, October, 2024.
淗is Master Voice: Nietzsche, Derrida, Otobiographies,澛燝uest Lecture, Philosophy Seminar, College of the Holy Cross, September, 2024.
淰ertiginous Possibilities: Paul de Man 楽emiology and Rhetorique�,澛燚epartment of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2024.
淪ecrets of a Modern Death: Baudelaire 楿ne mort h茅ro茂que,澛燬ociety of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes, University College London, April 2024.
淏lack Before My Eyes: Reading, Believing, Loving in Kierkegaard聽Fear and Trembling,澛燝uest Lecture, Philosophy Seminar, College of the Holy Cross, March, 2024.
淪ans t锚te ni queue: La po猫sie en Prose chez Baudelaire,澛燚artmouth in Paris Program, Reid Hall, Paris, February, 2024.
淭he Fiction of a Title: Balzac聽Adieu,澛燦ineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, November, 2023.
淜ierkegaard Poetic Exemplars,� Bi-weekly International Workshop (Zoom) on Kierkegaard four 淒iscourses on the Lilies and the Birds,� September-December, 2022.
淧rose-Poetry and the Right to a Modern Death: Baudelaire "Une Mort h茅ro茂que, 漀ineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Georgetown University, November, 2021.
�Madame Bovary: le rien, l檌ronie et la b锚tise," Guest Lecture, Seminar: 淧our une contre-modernit茅 critique du dix-neuvi猫me si猫cle," Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2021.
�Je dis: une fleur!聽ellipsis�," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Florida State University, November, 2019.
�I say a flower擬allarm茅, Blanchot, and the deadly power of language," Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, College of the Holy Cross, October, 2019
淪hineless: Starring Baudelaire," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, UC Riverside and Scripps College, October, 2018.
淭he Personalization of Power: An Im-Personal Perspective," Venice International University, October, 2017.
淏audelaire Other Passer-by," Department of French, Yale University, April, 2017.
淏audelaire and Other People,� Round-Table Discussion, Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, April, 2017.
淏audelaire Providence: 楲es Sept vieillards�," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Brown University, October, 2016.
淪pectral Bodies: Baudelaire 楲es Sept vieillards�," Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes, University of Kent/Reid Hall, Paris, April 2016.
淧aul de Man and 楾he Concept of Irony.櫇 Guest Lecture, Seminar: 淧ostmoderne und Dekonstruktion in Deutschland?,澛� Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, March 22, 2016.
"Allegory in Tatters: 'Les Sept Vieillards," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, November, 2015.
淣ow You See It, Now You Don檛: Baudelaire聽惭辞诲别谤苍颈迟茅, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, October, 2015.
淕etting Out of Hand: Baudelaire聽Thyrse," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of San Juan, October, 2014.
淎llegorical Capital,� American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New York University, March, 2014.
淲hat do we mean when we say 榓llegory?�,� Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Richmond, October, 2013.
淚rony on Occasion: Beginning with Kierkegaard,� Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, February 19, 2013.
聽淧oetry, Prose, Penury: What You See is What You Don檛 Get in Baudelaire 榊eux des Pauvres,� � Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, North Carolina State University, October, 2012.
淯nbelievable: Jacques Derrida and 楻eligion,� � Conference Organizer, Boston College, April 26-27, 2012.
淭he Unspeakable Secret: Traumatic Blanks in the Testimony of Maurice Blanchot� Boston College Conference, 淎fter the Unthinkable: Trauma, Nachtr盲glichkeit, and Coming to Terms," Boston College, March, 2012.