Fernanda Negrete
PhD
Scholarly Interests
Sexuality, Desire, Language, Body and Creation; Literature and Contemporary Music; Desire in a Post-1960s Global Female Avant-Garde; Subjectivity After Representation and Radical Aesthetics
Education
- PhD, French Literature, Dept. of Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2012
- MA, French Literature, Dept. of Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2008
- BA/Licenciatura en Filosofía, Universidad Iberoamericana, México, 2005
Research Areas
- Modern and Contemporary French Literature and Art
- French Women Writers
- Aesthetics, Literature, and the Arts
- Psychoanalysis and Continental Philosophy
- Global Avant-gardes (with a special interest in Brazil and the Caribbean)
Current Research
- Symptom and Sensation: Post-Freudian Experiments in Literature and Art
- Voice and the Unnamable in Samuel Beckett and Luciano Berio
Selected Publications
- “Duras’ Césarée and the Subject of Love.” CR: The New Centennial Review 15.3 (2015): 167-199.
- “‘A Vital Unliveable Force’: Rhythm in Nathalie Sarraute’s Writing.” Mosaic2 (2015): 83-98.
- “Chaos-monde and the Aesthetics of Depth in the art of Artur Barrio, Jacques Coursil, and Damián Ortega.” ARTMargins 3.1 (2014): 55-80.
Courses Taught
- FR 213: Languages, Texts, and Contexts III
- FR 482: L’expérience littéraire
- FR 525/COL 525: Art-writing and the Functions of the Aesthetic
- FR 525/COL 646: Creation and the Limits of Language in French Experimental Literature
Recent Grants and Awards
- UB Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2017
- UB Faculty Internationalization Fund in support of collaborative research and student exchange planning with MARGE research group and Université de Lyon, April 3, 2016