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  Research Interests:

Nineteenth-century French literature and culture; critical theory; literature and science; literature and technology.

Recent Papers, Books and Preprints
  1. Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola (2004), Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
  2. Circumstances: Chance in the Literary Text (1993), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
  3. Here, There, Anywhere, Spec. issue "After 9/11: European Perspectives," Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 29 no. 2 (2005), pp. 89-109.
  4. Writing, Movement/Space, Democracy: On Jacques Rancière’s Literary History, Spec. issue "Jacques Rancière," SubStance, vol. 33 no. 1 (2004), pp. 126-40.
  5. Infinite Archives, Spec. issue "Overload," SubStance, vol. 33 no. 3 (Fall, 2004), pp. 148-61.
  6. Vitesse et présent dans Lucien Leuwen, L'Année stendhalienne, vol. 4 (2005), pp. 149-61.
  7. Gustave Le Rouge et La Conspiration des milliardaires: M.A.D. avant la lettre, Spec. issue "Science et littérature," Alliage, vol. 57-58 (2006), pp. 169-76.
  8. Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime, Spec. issue "Investigating Crime," Yale French Studies no. 108 (2005), pp. 8-19.