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Event sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature and Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.
Catherine Liu received her Ph.D. in French Literature from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. At present, she is Visiting Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Bard College. From 1997-1999, she was awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship at the University of Minnesota. She has published articles on psychoanalytic theory, issues in feminist criticism and French literature of the ancien régime, and Walter Benjamin, and Conspiracy Theory. She has curated exhibitions of contemporary art in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as having worked as a regular reviewer for Artforum, and Flash Art. In 1992, she edited a special issue of Lusitania, on issues of contemporary theory and cultural production called The Abject, America. In addition to having written and published on contemporary art and theory, she has also published a novel, Oriental Girls Desire Romance (Kaya Press, 1997). She is presently at work on a second novel, Suicide of an Assistant Professor, due to be published in the Spring of 2004 by The Other Press. Her book, Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton, a collection of theoretical essays around the genealogy of the machine and technologies of difference was published the University of Minnesota Press. She also translated Gérard Pommier’s Erotic Anger: A User’s Manual.
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, has authored or edited twenty books on Modernism, Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Lacan, Derrida, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Among these, Lacan in America (2000), Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the subject of literature (2001), James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and The Future of Theory (2002). He is the editor of the Cambridge Guide to Jacques Lacan (2002).
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