Irving Goh
I am the author of the book, _The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion After the Subject_, published by Fordham University Press under its Commonalities series. In December 2015, the book was awarded the MLA 23rd Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies. My second monograph (in French), _L'Existence Prépositionnelle_, was published by Galilée in February 2019. With Jean-Luc Nancy, I have also published _The Deconstruction of Sex_, which appeared with Duke University Press in 2021. The original French version is forthcoming with Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre (Collection Collège International de Philosophie). Also forthcoming is _Living on after Failure_ with Duke University Press, a work that was supported by a National Humanities Center Fellowship in 2022/23. Meanwhile, I am currently completing my manuscript _Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limits_ for Cornell University Press.
I have also published several articles on contemporary continental thought and its intersections with literature, political thought, and cultural politics in journals such as diacritics, MLN, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Theory, Philosophy East & West, Cultural Critique, Theory & Event, and Cultural Politics.
I received my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, having written my doctoral dissertation under the direction of Dominick LaCapra, Timothy Murray, Jonathan Culler, and the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. I then served as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2012-13) at the Society for the Humanities also at Cornell, and continued as Visiting Scholar in 2013-14. Following that, I was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University for 2014-5. In 2015, I received the prestigious Newton Fellowship awarded by the Royal Society and the British Academy for the Humanities and the Social Sciences for my current work on "prepositional existence" in French and German thought. During the term of the fellowship, I was hosted by the Department of French at the University of Cambridge. In May 2017, I accepted the appointment of President's Assistant Professor of Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, a position made under the university's targeted hire program. I received my promotion to Associate Professor (with tenure) in Oct 2021. In Aug 2024, I will begin my appointment as Full Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University.
In the course of my studies, I have also studied under a host of other amazing teachers: Verena Andermatt Conley (while I was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (French) at Harvard), Samuel Weber (under the Paris Program in Critical Theory), Ian James (at the University of Cambridge), John WP Phillips and Ryan Bishop (at the National University of Singapore).
My main research interest is in theory, which covers not only continental thought and literary theory, areas in which I was trained at Cornell, but also recent affect theory, autotheory, race theories, and queer theory. I also work on French and Francophone literature, Luso-Brazilian literature (especially Lispector), contemporary Anglo-American literature, and World Literature.
For a little more information about _The Reject_, a more complete list of my publications, current and future projects, and my engagement with music, please see my website: www.irving-goh.com
I have also published several articles on contemporary continental thought and its intersections with literature, political thought, and cultural politics in journals such as diacritics, MLN, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Theory, Philosophy East & West, Cultural Critique, Theory & Event, and Cultural Politics.
I received my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, having written my doctoral dissertation under the direction of Dominick LaCapra, Timothy Murray, Jonathan Culler, and the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. I then served as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2012-13) at the Society for the Humanities also at Cornell, and continued as Visiting Scholar in 2013-14. Following that, I was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University for 2014-5. In 2015, I received the prestigious Newton Fellowship awarded by the Royal Society and the British Academy for the Humanities and the Social Sciences for my current work on "prepositional existence" in French and German thought. During the term of the fellowship, I was hosted by the Department of French at the University of Cambridge. In May 2017, I accepted the appointment of President's Assistant Professor of Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, a position made under the university's targeted hire program. I received my promotion to Associate Professor (with tenure) in Oct 2021. In Aug 2024, I will begin my appointment as Full Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University.
In the course of my studies, I have also studied under a host of other amazing teachers: Verena Andermatt Conley (while I was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (French) at Harvard), Samuel Weber (under the Paris Program in Critical Theory), Ian James (at the University of Cambridge), John WP Phillips and Ryan Bishop (at the National University of Singapore).
My main research interest is in theory, which covers not only continental thought and literary theory, areas in which I was trained at Cornell, but also recent affect theory, autotheory, race theories, and queer theory. I also work on French and Francophone literature, Luso-Brazilian literature (especially Lispector), contemporary Anglo-American literature, and World Literature.
For a little more information about _The Reject_, a more complete list of my publications, current and future projects, and my engagement with music, please see my website: www.irving-goh.com
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La préposition « à » empêcherait-elle la captation de l’existence dans une ipséité ou dans une clôture face à son propre dehors. Contre une telle existence fixe dans une position quelconque, celle qui ne signale que la fin d’une existence véritablement libre, pensons une « existence prépositionnelle », et entendons ainsi le terme « prépositionnelle » en deux sens à la fois : 1) prépositionnelle au sens linguistique, c’est-à-dire la préposition « à » ; et 2) pré-positionnelle, c’est-à-dire le mouvement ou l’élan presque fluide et libre avant qu’on prenne (une) position ou qu’on s’y fixe.
Friday 10 June 2016, 2 to 5 pm, 112
Dr Irving Goh is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion After the Subject (2014). He has also published widely in journals such as diacritics, MLN, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Theory, Philosophy East & West, Cultural Critique, Theory & Event, and Cultural Politics. He wrote his PhD at Cornell University under the direction of Dominick LaCapra, Timothy Murray, Jonathan Culler, and the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. He is currently a Newton fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Irving Goh will join us to discuss Deleuze’s understanding of the concept of community.
Refreshments will be served. To book a place, please contact Nathalie Wourm at n.wourm@bbk.ac.uk.