Dr. Milo Sweedler

Associate Professor of French and Cultural Analysis & Social Theory, Chair of Languages & Literatures

Contact Information

Email: msweedler@wlu.ca
Phone: (519) 884-0710 ext. 3002

Office Location: BA407
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 10:30 am - 11:30 am or by appointment

Languages Spoken

English
French

Academic Background

BA Binghamton University, DEA Université Paris VIII, PhD Emory University

Biography

Research Interests:

Continental political theory, theories of representation, modern and contemporary literature, modern and contemporary art, film history and criticism, the French avant-garde

Book:

The Dismembered Community: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the Remains of Laure. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009.

Selected Book Chapters, Articles and Extended Reviews:

“Au nom du peuple: Rancière et la subjectivation politique.” Imaginaires 12 (2012): 59-70.

“The Poison and the Cure – Experiments in Political Theology: Critchley’s The Faith of the Faithless.” Theory & Event 15:3 (2012). <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v015/15.3.sweedler.html>.

“De la terreur considérée comme un des Beaux-Arts.” Penser la Terreur. Ed. Bruno Chaouat. Dijon: Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2009: 297-307.

“Tabula Rasa: Blanchot and the Terror.” French Literature Series 35 (2008): 95-103.

“Bare Life from Auschwitz to Guantánamo Bay.” The Camp: Narratives of Internment and Exclusion. Ed. Colman Hogan and Marta Marín-Dòmine. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007: 135-51.

“La lecture honteuse: lire Thomas l’obscur.” Lire, écrire la honte. Ed. Bruno Chaouat. Passages. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2007: 397-407.

“The Politics of Sacrifice: Mel Gibson and Georges Bataille.” Intertexts 11:2 (2007): 57-71. 

“From the Sacred Conspiracy to the Unavowable Community: Bataille, Blanchot and Laure’s Le Sacré.” French Studies 59 (July 2005): 338-50.

“Autohagiography: The Écrits de Laure.” Dalhousie French Studies 71 (Summer 2005): 65-73.

“Bataille et le premier homme.” Écrivains de la préhistoire. Ed. André Benhaïm and Michel Lantelme. Cribles. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2004: 105-14.

“Le Sacré de Lord Auch.” Revue des Sciences Humaines 266/267 (April-Sept. 2002): 271-81.

“Pierres Angéliques and Incandescences un Peu Chattes: Bataille, Leiris, and the Name of Laure.” Cincinnati Romance Review 21 (2002): 34-49.

“Lieux sacrés, ou la mise en abyme du Collège de Sociologie.” Revue des Sciences Humaines 261 (Jan.-March 2001): 51-64.