Fernanda Negrete
PhD
Scholarly Interests
Literature and the Other Arts; Psychoanalysis, Modern Literatures (in French, Portuguese, Spanish, English) and Philosophy; Sexuality Studies and Critical Theory; Women Writers and Film Directors; Art, Art Theory, and Aesthetics; the Ethics of Psychoanalysis and Schizoanalysis; Environmental Art.
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 Literature and Other Experimental Multimedia Arts
- Women Writers of French Expression
- Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Philosophy
- Aesthetics and Art Theory
- Sound Studies
- Environmental Art
- Global Avant-gardes (with a special interest in Brazil and the Antilles)
Current Research
- Dreams of the New: Moving Propositions from Nouvelle Vague and Contemporary Cinema to Environmental Artworks (book in progress)
- Intermedial Music: Uncanny Encounters at the Threshold of Sound (book in progress)
- Clarice Lispector’s Ethics of Risk
- Passerby Solidarities: The End of Analysis, Baudelaire, and Andy Goldsworthy
- Haiti, Psychoanalysis, and Caribbean Art
- Goya, Freud, and Deleuze
Selected Publications
- Recent Book: The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art (SUNY Press Series Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, October 2020)
- Recent Co-Edited Special Issue: Beckett Beyond Words – Co-edited with James Martell. Special issue of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, 30.2, 2018
- Podcast: Penumbr(a)cast: The Other Scene. Interviews on Contemporary Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
- “Acts of Love and Unconscious Savoir in Marguerite Duras’ Writing.” S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique (12), 2019
- “Approaching Impersonal Life with Clarice Lispector.” Humanities 7.2 55 (2018): https://doi.org/10.3390/h7020055. In “New Encounters Between Philosophy and Literature II”
Courses Taught
- FR 212: Languages, Texts, and Contexts II
- FR 341: Topics in French Film
- FR 343: Advanced Communication in French
Graduate Seminars
- FR526/COL542 Decolonial Acts in Haitian Vodou, Psychoanalysis, and Art
- FR525 Eros and its Discontents
- FR525/FR481 Dreams of the New in Postwar France
- FR525/FR481 Art, Autofiction, and Ecologies
- FR525/ COL542 Symptom, Sensation, Sense, & Sex (Proust, Beckett, & Duras)
- FR525/ COL525 Art-writing and The Functions of the Aesthetic
Recent Grants and Awards
- Julian Park First Book University Fund, Fall 2019.
- UB Honors College Faculty Fellow, 2018-2020.
- 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