Profile for Kimberly DeFazio
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Associate Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Specialty area(s)
Romanticism, 19th Century British Literature, Posthumanism, Materialism, Critical and Cultural Theory, and the City
Current courses at UWL
ENG 110: College Writing
ENG 204: British Literature after 1800: Literary Ecologies
ENG 481: Seminar in Literature and Culture: Humanities, Ecology and Capitalism
Education
Ph.D., English, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
M.A., English, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
B.A., English and Textual Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Career
Teaching history
ENG 110: College Writing I: World Writing
ENG 200: Literature and Human Experience: The Urban Seen
ENG 204: English Literature II: Literary Ecologies
ENG 301: Foundations for Literary and Cultural Studies
ENG 367: 19th Century English Literature: The Green Humanities: Wordsworth, Dickens and Contemporary Ecocritique
ENG 462: Seminar in British Literature: The Empire of the Body: Body Textual, Body Medical, Body Erotic
ENG 484: Literary Capstone: Literary Vision in a "Post" Literary Age
ENG 494: Special Topic: The Posthumanist Imaginary: Between Human and Nonhuman Worlds
Research and publishing
Books:
Everyone is a Materialist Now (forthcoming)
Spinoza, New Materialism and the Contemporary (forthcoming)
Human, All Too (Post)Human: The Humanities After Humanism. Co-editor. Lexington Books, June 2016.
The City of the Senses: Urban Culture and Urban Space. New York: Palgrave, 2011.
Recent Translations of My Work into Other Languages:
A translation into Chinese of my first book, The City of the Senses, was published by Normal University Press (Beijing) in 2022.
A German translation of my essay "Naturalism is Not Materialism: Spinoza and New Materialism" was published in M&R: Magazin Für Gegenkulture (Berlin) in December 2021.
Special Issues:
Co-editor of special issue on Materialism and Speech in Nineteenth-Century Prose (2018)
Recent Essays:
"Untimely Materialist Meditations on Affect." Co-author. Forthcoming in Speculative Affect Theory (Palgrave)
"Introduction" to special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose. Co-author
"The Critic as Accountant." Nineteenth-Century Prose 42.2 (Fall 2015)
"Melancholia and Posthumanist Metaphysics" in Stories in Post-Human Cultures.Edited by Adam L. Brackin and Natacha Guyot. Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013.
"The Aesthetics of Empire: Affect and the Universality of Consumption." Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics Under the Sign of Globalisation. Eds. Mads Anders Baggesgaard & Jakob Ladegaard. Aarhus University Press, 2011.
Recent Conference Papers and Invited Talks:
Co-chair of Panel on Speech in the Nineteenth Century at the Institute on Culture and Society Conference at the University of Albany (SUNY), June 2018.
Talk on "The City of the Senses" and new research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. June 2015.
Talk on "The City of the Senses" at South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China. June 2015.
“Reading With Negri.” Special Session Chair. Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. January 9, 2014.
“Melancholia and Posthumanist Metaphysics.” Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction. Mansfield College, Oxford, UK. 19 July 2013.
“New Materialism and Cultural Critique.” Special Session Chair. Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA. January 5, 2013.
“Material Events: de Man, Badiou, and Romantic Disaster.” International Conference on Romanticism. Tempe, AZ. November 9, 2012.
Research Fellowship:
Awarded a Research Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison for the 2019-2020 academic year to develop research for a new book on materialism and the (post)humanities.
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