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.