Christophe Wall-Romana
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Department of French and Italian |
Statement of Interests
My research concentrates on modern poetry, which I approach through a variety of angles ranging from the phenomenology of experience to ethics and the history of power and technology. In particular, I am looking at poets from the 1890s to the present who found in cinema a source of new forms, meanings, and affordances. My work aims to theorize further the relation of writing to the culture of moving images and other media, in order to reposition literary objects and practices. I have a strong interest in silent and experimental cinema, especially directors and theoreticians of the First Avant-Garde (Gance, Delluc, Dulac, Epstein), and I am researching the development of ‘film writing’ genres. My work has been concerned with other subjects as well, such as the relations between French and American poetry, translation, Francophone poetry of the Caribbean and Maghreb, France’s colonial amnesia, and the phenomenological inspiration.
Publications
“Danielle Collobert’s Aux environs d’un film: Poetic Writing on the Brink of Cinema,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 9:3 (September 2005) 259-67.
“Mallarmé’s Cinepoetics: The Poem Uncoiled by the Cinématographe, 1893-98,” PMLA 120.1:1 (January 2005) 128-47.
“Urbain’s Ironic Use of the Word Orientalisme in 1837,” French Studies Bulletin 90 (Spring 2004) 5-8.
Review: Christian Bök, Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (2002), in Cross Cultural Poetics 12 (2003), 150-53.
Translation (with P. Farazzi): Norbert Wiener, God & Golem Inc. (Montp.: L’éclat, 2000)
“Beckett au parloir: poétique du transvoisement,” Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 8 (1999) 91-105.
“Metaschuld 1999—Das Jahr der Unverjärhbarkeit,” Lettre international 47:4 (Berlin, 1999) 35-43.