English Faculty // Professor Marc Redfield

Professor of English, holds the John D. and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Chair in the Humanities.

Born in New York and raised in Switzerland and Brazil, he received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University in 1980, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1990. From 1986 to 1990 he taught at the Université de Genève, Switzerland; in 1990 he joined the English department of Claremont Graduate University.

His fields of specialization include Romanticism, the nineteenth-century novel, aesthetics, literary theory, and comparative literature. At Claremont Graduate University, he teaches eighteenth-century, Romantic, and nineteenth-century British literature, and literary theory.

He is the author of Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996, co-winner of the First Book Prize of the Modern Language Association) and The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003). He has co-edited High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002), and edited Legacies of Paul de Man (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007); edited two special issues of the journal Diacritics: "Addictions" (1997), and "Theory, Globalization, Cultural Studies, and the Remains of the University" (2001); two special issues of Romantic Praxis: "Legacies of Paul de Man" (2005) and (with Laura Quinney and Orrin Wang), “Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom: Two Interviews”; and a special issue of The Wordsworth Circle, “Geoffrey Hartman: A Deviant Homage.” He is writing a book on the late-eighteenth-century origins of the notion of a "war on terror."

Contact Information

Professor Marc Redfield
English Department
School of Arts & Humanities | Claremont Graduate University
121 East Tenth Street | Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909.621.8612 | Fax: 909.607.1221
Email: Marc.Redfield@cgu.edu

Professor Redfield's Menu:

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Rhetoric of Exception: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror. New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming.

Edited Books

Edited Special Issues of Journals.

Articles & Reviews

“Pynchon’s Postmodern Sublime.” PMLA, 104 (1989), 152-62. Subsequent exchange of letters in PMLA, 104 (1989), 898-99.

“De Man, Schiller, and the Politics of Reception.” Diacritics, 20:3 (1990), 50-70. A slightly different version published in Colloquium Helveticum, 11/12 (1990), 139-67.

Review of Juliet Sychrava, Schiller to Derrida: Idealism in Aesthetics (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989), in New Comparison, 11 (Autumn 1990), 173-75.

“Gender, Aesthetics, and the Bildungsroman.” The Wordsworth Circle, 25:1 (1994), 17-21.

“Georges Bataille.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994, pp. 73-74.

“Maurice Blanchot.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994, pp. 92-94.

“Deconstruction.” Encyclopedia Americana. Danbury: Grolier, Inc., 1994, vol. 8, p. 597.

“Poststructualism.” Encyclopedia Americana. Danbury: Grolier, Inc., 1994. vol. 22, pp. 460-63.

“The Temptations of Narrative.” Review of Ortwin de Graef, Serenity in Crisis: A Preface to Paul de Man, 1939-1960 (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1993), in the minnesota review, n.s. 41/42 (1995), 175-81.

“Ghostly Bildung: Gender, Genre, Aesthetic Ideology, and Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.” Genre, 26: 4 (1993 [1995]), 377-407.

“Aesthetic Ideology and Literary Theory.” The Centennial Review, 39: 3 (1995), 537-58.

“The Dissection of the State: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre and the Politics of Aesthetics.” The German Quarterly, 69: 1 (1996), 15-31.

Comment (solicited) in response to James Elkins, “On the Impossibility of Close Reading: The Case of Alexander Marshack,” Current Anthropology, 37: 2 (1996), 214-15.

Review of Tilottoma Rajan and David Clark, eds., Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995), in European Romantic Review, 7:1 (1996), 110-14.

Review of Joseph Tabbi, The Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Norman Mailer to Cyberpunk (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995), in Modern Fiction Studies, 42: 4 (1996), 852-54.

Review of Ernst Behler, German Literary Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996) in European Romantic Review, 8:4 (1997), 450-54.

“Romanticism, Bildung, and the ‘Literary Absolute.’” In The Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. Ed. Robert F. Gleckner and Thomas Pfau. Durham: Duke UP, 1998, pp. 41-54.

Review of John Rignell, ed., George Eliot and Europe (Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1997), in Victorian Studies, 41:4 (1998), 641-43.

“Madame Bovary et le fétiche du langage.” Romanic Review, 89:3 (1998), 333-44.

Review of Thomas Keenan, Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997), in Modern Language Quarterly, 60:2 (1999), 288-90.

Review of David Lloyd and Paul Thomas, Culture and the State (New York: Routledge, 1998), in Victorian Studies, 42:2 (1999/2000), 327-30.

“Imagi-Nation: The Imagined Community and the Aesthetics of Mourning.” Special issue of Diacritics, “Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson,” ed. Pheng Cheah and Jonathan Culler, 29:4 (1999), 58-83. Republished as Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson. Ed. Pheng Cheah and Jonathan Culler. London and New York: Routledge, 2003, pp. 75-105.

“Lucinde’s Obscenity.” In Rereading Romanticism. Ed. Martha Helfer. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 47 (2000). Amsterdam and Atlanta: Editions Rodolpi, 2000, pp. 103-30.

“Masks of Anarchy: Shelley’s Political Poetics.” Special issue of the Bucknell Review, “Untrodden Regions of the Mind: Romanticism and Psychoanalysis,” ed. Ghislaine McDayter, 45: 2 (2001), 100-26.

“Crisis and Culture: Theory, Cultural Studies, and the University.” Response (solicited) to Tilottama Rajan, “The University in Crisis: Cultural Studies, Civil Society and the Place of Theory.” Literary Research/Recherche littéraire, 18:35 (2001), 31-35.

“Introduction: Addiction and Culture.” With Janet Brodie. In High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction, ed. Janet Brodie and Marc Redfield. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 1-15.

“Passionate Textuality.” Review of Rei Terada, Feeling in Theory (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), in the minnesota review, n.s.55-57 (2002), 361-66.

“Introduction: Theory, Globalization, Cultural Studies, and the Remains of the University.” Diacritics, 31:3 (2001 [2003]), 3-14.

“Literature, Incorporated: Harold Bloom, Theory, and the Canon.” In Historicizing Theory, ed. Peter C. Herman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003, pp. 211-35.

“Postmodernism.” Encyclopedia Americana. Danbury: Grolier, http://go.grolier.com

“Biography of Paul de Man.” Encyclopedia Americana. Danbury: Grolier, http://go.grolier.com

“The Bildungsroman.” Encyclopedia Americana. Danbury: Grolier, http://go.grolier.com.

Revision of “Bataille” and “Blanchot” for revised Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, pp. 100-101, 124-26.

“Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism.” (Solicited response to essays by Ian Balfour, David Ferris, Karen Swann). Romantic Circles Praxis Series, ed. Forest Pyle (February 2005): http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/aesthetic/redfield/redfield.html

Contribution (solicited) to “Forum: The Legacy of Jacques Derrida,” PMLA, 120 (March, 2005), 487-88.

Review of Ian Balfour, The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), in Modern Philology, 102: 4 (May, 2005), 567-71.

“War on Terror.” In Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come, ed. Barbara Cohen and Dragan Kujundzic. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005, pp. 128-58.

“Island Mysteries.” Afterword for Art History versus Aesthetics, ed. James Elkins. London and New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 269-90.

“Wordsworth, Poetry, Romanticism: An Interview with Geoffrey Hartman.” Romantic Circles Praxis Series, “Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom: Two Interviews,” ed. Orrin Wang, Laura Quinney, and Marc Redfield (August 2006): http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/bloom_hartman/hartman/hartman.html

“Geoffrey Hartman: A Deviant Homage.” The Wordsworth Circle, 37:1 (2006), 3-8.

Review of Michael John Kooy, Coleridge, Schiller and Aesthetic Education (Chippenham: Palgrave, 2002), in Studies in Romanticism, 45: 2 (2006), 306-12.

“The Bildungsroman.” In Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of British Literary History, vol. I, ed. David Scott Kasten. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 191-194.

“Gothic Consciousness.” Review of Marshall Brown, The Gothic Text (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 39:3 (2006), 432-35.

“Introduction.” In Legacies of Paul de Man, ed. Marc Redfield. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007, pp. 1-14.

“Professing Theory: John Guillory’s Misreading of Paul de Man.” In Legacies of Paul de Man, ed. Marc Redfield. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007, pp. 93-126.

“Aesthetics, Theory, and the Profession of Literature: Derrida and Romanticism.” Studies in Romanticism, 46: 2 (2007), 227-46.

“Ambivalence: Media, Technics, Gender.” In Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber, ed. Simon Wortham and Gary Hall. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007, pp. 141-58.

“Faces, Traces: Adorno, Kafka, Richter.” In Peter de Bolla and Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig, eds., Aesthetics and the Work of Art. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.

“What’s in a Name-Date? Reflections on 9/11.” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 30:3 (2008), 220-31.