Faculty
Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu
Doctoral Membership
Department of Modern Languages, Comparative Literature (former Director CSTC)
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Education: BA, Bucharest; MA, PhD, Toronto
Research Interests
Philosophy (17th-century philosophy and theology, French thought (17th-20th centuries), German thought (18th-20th centuries), postmodernism. Publications in English, French, Romanian, and Spanish on Pascal, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa, Plato, Aristotle, Baltasar Gracián, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Cervantes, Kant, Kafka, Benjamin, Borges, Heidegger, Adorno, Huxley, T. Mann, Deleuze, García Márquez, Nancy; Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque literature and philosophy, utopian discourses, semiotics of folklore and myth, taste and kitsch, exile, prosthetic thought, drugs and experience, surrealism, economic aspects of narrative, the posthuman, Central and Eastern European cultural and political issues, creative writing.
Books: (ed.) Fiction Updated: Theories of Fictionality in Contemporary Criticism (Toronto, 1996); (ed.) Ars Rhetorica (Ottawa, 1996); (ed.) This Craft of Verse, by J.L. Borges (Harvard, 2000); 16~17. Renastere, manierism, baroc (16~17. Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque; Bucharest, 2002; 2nd ed. 2005); Tara europsita (A Europressed country; Bucharest, 2002); (in collab.) Calendarul după Caragiale (The calendar according to Caragiale; Bucharest, 2002; (in collab.) Don Global suit pe cal (The coming of Don Global; Bucharest, 2003); Antropomorfina (Anthropomorphine; Bucharest, 2005); (ed.) Cum era? Cam aşa... Amintiri din anii comunismului [românesc] (What was it like? Something like that… Memories from the years of (Romanian) communism; Bucharest, 2006); Happy New Fear! (Bucharest, 2011); Poezoo – poems for (old) children (Bucharest, 2011); Editor-in-Chief, Literary Research/Recherche littéraire (1997-2005).
Theses Supervised:
- Kristen Shaw: Ruining Representation in the Novels of China Miéville: A Deleuzian Analysis of Assemblages in Railsea, The Scar, and Embassytown, MA thesis, 2012
- Galen Crout: Expanding the Bounds of Critique: Kant and Benjamin, MA thesis 2011
- Jason Dockstader: Spinoza's Divine Wisdom, PhD thesis 2009
- Alastair McMillan: Mechanism, Dynamism and Subjectivity, MA thesis, 2009
- Kane Faucher: Oncontology: Plateau 1001, PhD thesis 2009
- Ariel Fuenzalida: Pharmakontologies, PhD thesis 2009
- Kevin Spencer: Swearing: Force and Language, MA thesis, 2008
- Darren MacDonald: (En)counter Dialogues, MA thesis, 2006
- Dustin Atlas: Kierkegaard's Grotesque, MA thesis, 2005
- Jason Dockstader: Gigantomachia: Spinoza vs. Heidegger, MA thesis, 2005
- Cristian Melchiorre: Affect and Transference in Theoretical Discourse, MA thesis, 2003
- Andrew Pendakis: Confessions of a Well-Lit Corridor, MA thesis, 2003
- Jakub Zdebik: A Diagram of Allegory: Benjamin, Deleuze and the Space of Language, MA thesis, 2002
- David Patrick: Chemistry at Work: Drugs, Mysticism, Theory, MA thesis, 2001
- Kim Olynyk: Suffering, MA thesis, 1999
- Colin MacPherson: The Spirit, Grace, and the Soul of Science, MA thesis, 1998
- Laura Penny: Spent, MA thesis, 1998
- Scott Bakker: Supernaut: An Assay into the Temporalities of Performance and Representation, MA thesis, 1997
- Nandita Biswas: The Anxiety of Conscience: On the Non-Concept of Community, MA thesis, 1996
- Gordon Hughes: Scare Marks: Towards an Ontology of Anti-Semitism, MA thesis, 1996
- Robert Diab: The ‘Crisis of Philosophy’ in the Work of Edmund Husserl, MA thesis, 1995
