Works-in-Progress lecture from FICS faculty
Audrey Wasser, Ph.D. joined Miami’s department of French, Italian, and Classics in 2014, following an appointment as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on twentieth-century French and comparative literature, French philosophy, and literary theory. Her first book, The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form (Fordham, 2016) develops an original critique of persistently romantic assumptions in contemporary criticism, and features studies of Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein. With Warren Montag, she recently co-edited Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production (Northwestern, 2022), which re-examines Macherey’s innovative literary thinking in light of contemporary critical debates and translates three new texts by Macherey into English. She is currently at work on a new project, On Literary Judgment, which works through studies of Spinoza, Kant, Proust, and Althusser to examine the way scholars make and evaluate knowledge claims about literary texts.
