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Imre Szeman
PhD Duke
Professor
Contact Information
Office: 4-79
Phone: 780-248-1427
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Supervisory and research interests
I am interested in supervising graduate students working on topics in contemporary culture (including postcolonial fiction and visual media), social and cultural theory, and the politics of culture. Recent projects I have supervised include: Ethics in Empire: The Ethical Rhetoric of 9/11 (PhD, 2008), An Ensemble of Need: Theorizing the Scale of Dispossession (PhD, 2008), Figuring Poverty through the Regent Park Revitalization Project: Social Housing and the Formation of Citizen-Subjects (MA, 2008), The Exploding Subject: Sex, Capital and the Logics of Subjectivity (MA, 2008), Dictatorship of the Object: Four Cultural Studies in Marxism (PhD, 2006) and Fantasy as Mass Deception? Harlequin Presents and the Formation of Sexual Identity (PhD, 2005).
Courses Taught
My most recent graduate courses are Engl 567: “Collectivity,” and (at McMaster University) “Issues in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory,” “Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory” and “Globalization and Culture.” Undergraduate classes I have taught include “Reading Politics: Class and Ideology,” “Cultural Studies and Visual Culture,” “Literature and Film,” “Modern Critical Theory,” and “Globalization and Visual Culture.”
Representative publications
Cultural Theory: An Anthology (co-edited with Timothy Kaposy). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Popular Culture: A User’s Guide (co-written with Susie O’Brien). Toronto: Nelson, 2004, 2nd ed. 2009.
“System Failure: Oil, Futurity and the Anticipation of Disaster." South Atlantic Quarterly 106.4 (2007): 805-23.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (co-edited with Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth). Second Edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
“Culture and Globalization, or, The Humanities in Ruins.” CR: The New Centennial Review 3.2 (2003): 91-115.
Remarks
I am starting work on a manuscript (provisionally entitled Something’s Missing: Politics and Culture in the New Century), which contrasts official and non-official narratives concerning American cultural and political hegemony, and what comes after the ideologies of globalization. My next project will be to consider the contemporary politics of culture through explorations of recent cultural theory, visual arts, and documentary cinema.
