P.O. Box 104 , Al Akhawayn University, Avenue Hassan II, Ifrane, Morocco 53 000

Telephone: +212 535862464                  Fax:+212-535862977

Email: r.starling    aui.ma

Mr. Roger Starling

Education

ABD, University of Toronto, Department of English

 

M.A., University of Toronto, Department of English, 1991

 

B.A., University of Toronto, English and Literary Studies, 1986

        

Shakespeare; literary theory (ancient, early modern, and contemporary); psychoanalysis; contemporary French philosophy; theory and practice of rhetoric.

 

Current Research:

A monograph on Shakespeare (provisionally entitled “De-composing Subjects: Shakespeare and the Question of Mimesis”); tragic paradigms in literature and philosophy; the experience of language after Heidegger

Research Interests

Lecturer

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

Representative publications

“‘Scenes from the life of one who is suited for nothing’: Shakespeare and the Question of Mimesis.” Re-figuring Mimesis: Representation in Early Modern Literature. Ed. Jonathan Holmes and Adrian Streete. (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2005), 15-36.

Editor, “Inventions of Death: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis.” Angelaki 7.2 (2002).

“Editorial Introduction.” Angelaki 7.2 (2002): 1-7.

“Addressing the Dead: Of Friendship, Community, and the Work of Mourning.” Angelaki 7.2 (2002): 107-24.

Co-translator, Ginette Michaud, “Literature in Secret: Crossing Derrida and Blanchot.” Angelaki 7.2 (2002): 69-90.

“Review of John Lee, Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and the Controversies of Self.” Early Modern Literary Studies 7.2 (2001) <http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-2/starlrev.htm>

 “Review of Richard Hillman, Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern Drama: Discourse, Subjectivity, and the Stage.” Early Modern Literary Studies 7.1 (2001)         <http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/revstarl.htm>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Review of Richard Halpern, Shakespeare Among the Moderns and John Joughin, ed. Philosophical

<http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/starlrev.htm>

 

“Shakespeare’s Haunt: The Translation(s) of Hamlet in Derrida’s Specters of Marx.” Actes de Langue Français et de Linguistique 10/11 (1997/98): 193-213.

 

“Rethinking the Power of Maps: Some Reflections on Paper Landscapes.” Ecumene 5.1 (1998): 105-8.

 

Presentations: 

 

“Shakespearean Tragedy and Contemporary French Thought: Mimesis, Community, and the Work of Mourning.” Presented at “Shakespeare and Philosophy in a Multicultural World,” Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, 17-20 March 2004.

 

“Dispossessions: Shakespearean Tragedy and Contemporary French Thought.” Presented at “Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster,” Westfälisch Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, 23-25 May 2003.  Subsequently presented at the inaugural meeting of the British Shakespeare Association, De Montfort University, Leicester, 29-31 August 2003.

 

“‘Bastard to the Time’: King John and the Question of Mimesis.” Presented at “Renaissance Histories: Shakespeare and the History Play,” University of Central Lancashire, 19-20 July 2002.

 

“Addressing the Dead: Between Hamlet and Derrida.” Presented at “The Performance of Place,” University of Birmingham, 26-27 May 2001. Subsequently presented at “Inventions of Death: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis,” University of Warwick, 8-9 June 2001.

 

“England’s Ruins: Appropriation and Inheritance in Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies.” Invited Speaker, Graduate Seminar Series, Department of English, University of Birmingham, 4 December 2000.

 

“Allegories of the Eye: Space, Cartography, and the Gaze in Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Vermeer’s The Art of Painting.” Presented at the Postgraduate Conference Day, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, 23 February 2000.

 

“The Seduction of the Political: Identification and Alterity in Shakespeare’s King John.” Presented as part of the Graduate Research Seminar Series, Department of English and