Spring 2025 ENG 4133 Forgery, Phantoms, Painting, and Film
Spring 2025 LIT 4390 Wicked Women
Coming Attractions:
FALL 2025 ENG 4133 Found Footage: The Cinematic Paratext
FALL 2025 LIT 4930 Letters in FIlm, Philosophy, and Literature
Past Courses Actually Taught (Selected):
Fall 2024 ENG 4133 Shakespeare and Film
Fall 2024 LIT 4930 Sounds, Music, and the Horror Film
Spring 2024 ENG 4133 Shakespeare, Cavell, and Screwball Comedy
Spring 2024 LIT 4390 Austen, the Brontës, and the Gothic
Spring 2023 ENG 4133: The Found Art Film
Spring 2023 LIT 4930: From Close Reading to Closed Reading
Fall 2022 LIT 3003 Forms of Narrative (aka Narratology and the Incomplete Complete Novel)
Fall 2022 ENG 3121: History of Film 1
Spring 2022 LIT 4930: Ghosts and Other Missing Persons
Spring 2022 ENG 4135: Introduction to Japanese Cinema
Fall 2021 On Leave
Spring 2021 LIT 4930: See Also: Ir- Responsible Reading
Spring 2021 ENG 4133: Contemplative Auteurs
Fall 2020 ENG 4133: Closely Watched Films
Fall 2020 Lit 4930: Poescrypts
Fall 2019 ENG 4133 (Per)Versions: Re-Visiting Literature and Film Adaptations and Editions Preposterously
Fall 2019 LIT 4930 Audible Reading: A Phenomenology of Sounds and Voices
Spring 2019 ENG 4133 Film Trailers, Film Titles
Spring 2019 LIT 4930 Skepticism: Montaigne, Emerson, Nietzsche
Fall 2018 LIT 4930 Loser Lit
Fall 2018 ENG 4133 The Digital Film Critical Edition
Spring 2018 LIT 4930 Forgery, Fauxrensics, Philosophy
Spring 2018 ENG 4133 Sound, Silent Cinema, Musicology
Fall 2017 LIT 4930 Faute de Lecture: Psy-tation and Spectres of Authorship in Sterne, Derrida, Shakespeare, De Man, Shelley, Shelley, and Rousseau
Fall 2017 ENG 4133 Paranoid 70s Cinema
ENG 4930 Posthumography: Editorial Excrecensces and Eco-graph-ologies of Death Spring 2017
ENG 4133 "I'm Not Crazy!" Mental Illness on Film Spring 2017
ENG 4133 I See Deaf People: Dis -ability and the Reinvention of Silent Film Fall 2016
LIT 4930 Death Sentences: Philosophy and Freedom of Speech from Socrates to Derrida Fall 2016
ENG 4133 Shakespeare and Film Summer A 2016
ENG 4133 Touchy Feelings: Aesthetics, the Uncanny, and Malicious Objects and Spirits Spring 2016
ENG 4133 Welles, Shakespeare, Media Spring 2016
LIT 4930 Kierkegaard, Kafka, and the King James Bible Fall 2015
ENG 4133 Guilty Until Proven "Guilty!" Fall 2015
ENG 4133 The Disappearing Man: No Escape Spring 2015
ENG 4122 Bibliomania!!! Swift, Sterne &c. ___***____ Spring 2015
ENL 4133 Space Shots Air Heads Fall 2014
ENG 4133 1C26 Film Philology: ciNOma Fall 2014
ENG 4936 Honors Seminar Un/Reading Disaster Spring 2014
ENG 4133 Section 11B9 Hamlet vs. LearSpring 2014
ENG 6056 Grad Seminar Deconstruction and New Media Theory Fall 2013
LIT 4933 Shipwreck Fall 2013
ENG 4133 Silent Film Philology Spring 2013
ENG 4133 Drive Spring 2013
On research leave 2012
ENL 6076Writing to Death: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida ( Fall 2011)
ENG 4936 Seminar on "Posthmography" (Fall 2011)
ENG 4144 Hamlet, Faust, and the Political (Fall 2011)
ENG 3011 Section 5051 A Splice of Life: Biopolitics and Biomedics (Spring 2011)
ENG 4113 Section 4396 Ashes of Cinema: Philology, Film Restoration, and Deconstruction (Spring 2011)
ENG 6216 Chaucer's Wake
ENG 4133 Haunting Hamlet: Hamlets Within Hamlet (Fall 2010)
ENG 6075: Film and Media Theory (in Theory) (Fall 2010)
ENG 4133: Unintelgbl: Scratching the Surfaces of Death on Film, Photography, and Storage Media (Spring 2010)
ENG 4133 Shelf-Life: Media Histories and the Project of Self-Storage (Spring 2010)
ENG 6075 Grad Seminar: French Connections: The Material(i)s(m) and Media of Literary Theory (Fall 2009)
ENG 4936 Honors Seminar: Renaissance Tragedy, Political Theology, and Cinema(Fall 2009)
ENG 3115 Intro to Film Criticism and Film Theory(Spring 2009)
ENG 4133: The Western and Film Noir(Spring 2009)
ENG 6075: Grad Seminar: Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Surrealist Cinema (Fall 2008)
ENG 4133 Extended Cinema (Fall 2008)
ENG 4953 Dept Seminar: Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock (Fall 2008)
ENG 4133 Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media Theory (Spring 2008)
ENG 3115 Intro to Film Criticism and Film Theory (Spring 2008)
ENG 6075 Issues in Film and Media Theory(Fall 2007)
ENG 4133 Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (Fall 2007)
ENG 4133 Medievalism on Film
ENG 4133 Son of Psycho-cinem-analysis
ENG6075: Grad Seminar: Indexing History in Film and Media: From Print Paratexts to Cinematic and Media Paratexts
ENG 4133 Shakespeare and Race
ENG 6075 Grad Seminar: Academedia
ENG 4110 The Film Epic and U.S. Imperialism
ENG 4133 The Reduced Shakespeare Class
ENG 4133 The Schlock of Medievalism: The Middle Ages at the Movies
ENL 4220 The Erotic Politics of Renaissance Culture
ENG 4133 The Accident: Media, Memory, and Drive in Film and Narrative Theory (Fall 2004 )
ENL 6226 Shakespeare, Transnational Film, and Mass Media ( Graduate Seminar, Fall 2004 )
ENG 4133 Psycho-Cinem-Analysis (Senior seminar, Fall 2003)
ENG 4133 Renaissance Remakes: Post-National Film and the Infidelities of History ( Spring 2004)
Renaissance Remakes: Post-National Film and the Infidelities of History (Graduate Seminar, Fall 2003)
Ever Afterlives: Fashioning the Renaissance on Film and Video ( Undergraduate course , 2002)
Ever Afterlives: Romancing the Aristocracy (Graduate Seminar, 2000)
The Gothic in Literature and Film (Undergraduate course, Fall 2002)
Shakespeare (Lecture course 221, 2003)
Fall 2019 ENG 4133 Secular Jewish Comedy / Secular Jewish Horror
Spring 2020 ENG 4133 Hollywood Melodrama and Existentialism
Spring 2020 LIT 4930 Narrative Detours
More Coming Attractions ofCourses I May or May Not Teach:
LIT 4122 You ARE Alone!
ENG 4133 Just Watch!
ENG 4133 WATCH OUT!
LIT 4122 Die Trying
ENG 4133 War IS the Answer!
LIT 4930 Bare Ruined Choirs (we'd read poetry and novels about restoring or destroying or destroyed churches.
From Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 to Thomas Gray'sElegy Written on a Churchyard to Gothic novels to Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey."
Penelope Fitzgerald, Gate of Angels
J. Carr, A Month in the Country
The cathedral scene in F for Fake-Welles on Chartres
A Canterbury Tale film by Powell and Pressburger. Will also address Taliban and ISIS iconoclasm, Protestant iconoclasm, the Catholic Reformation, the Jewish taboo on images, 3D restoration of destroyed sculptures, art restoration, the Gothic Revival, and so on.
LIT 4930 Memes, Maxims, Memoranda, Aphorisms, Epigrams, Tweets, Epitaphs, Adagia, Essays, Proverbs, &c, &c.
or Cutting It Short: Literature and Film as Suicide Notes
ENG 4133 Insect Literature, Film, and Media
LIT 4930 Close Listening Spring 201?
LIT 4930 German Shakespeare from Schlegel to Schmitt 201?
Shakespeare, Screwball Comedy, and Cavell
LIT 4122 Dickens, Kafka, and the Law
Stuupid Cinema
ENG 4930 Love Songs: Dramatizing the Lyric from the Sonnet to the Sonata
How to Plagiarize and Get Away with It
LIT 4930 The Blind Reading the Blind Spring 2018
ENG 4133 Serial War Horror Film Spring 2018
LIT 4122 English Lit as Translation
LIT 4930 Loser Literature: Irony, Idiocy, Incomprehensibility
You Will Recall: Memory and Cinema
ENG 4133 Guilty as Cinema: Hearing N Justice
ENG 4133 Differantly -Abled: Derrida's Dis / abilities
ENG 4133 Art Film (painting in the "art" film)
ENG 4133 Foucault, Biopolitics, Archive
ENG 4133 Notes, Records
ENL 4133The Uninvited Reading
ENG 4133 Strike!
ENL 4133 Please Hold
ENL 4133 Press Mute
ENL 4936 Novel Networks
ENG 4122 Preparing to Fail
ENG 4133 How to Destoy a Film
ENG 4133 Endless Frustration
ENG 4133 Heidegger, Derrida, Poetry
ENG 4133 You Can't Get There From Here
ENG 6075 Posthumography
ENG 4133 Letters
ENG 4133 Imperialism, Africa, Film
ENG 4133 Politics Friendship Primitive Animal
ENL Biblio-GRAPHICS
ENL Not Working
LIT 4332: Reading "Everything": Derrida and Heidegger on Film, Photography, Facsimile, and Paper
(and even on shoelaces and thread)
ENG 4133 TrAuMissioNs: Psyching Out Psychoanalysis
ENG 4133 Sounding Out Silence in Cinema
ENG 4113 Film Theory on Film Histories of Cinema and Media
ENL 4220 Secularization, Sacrilege, and the Renaissance Image
ENG 3011 Theorists (in Theory): From Arche-Writing to the Archive
ENG 4133 Danger, Children (in development)
Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Law EnFORCEment
Spring 2019 LIT 4930 Derrida, Joyce, Lacan
or Spring 2019 4930 Poe Scrypts
or Spring 2019 LIT 4390 Surviving Extinction: Writing the Prehuman
Graphic Design and Sound Design in Film and Media
The Metaphysics of the Book
Settler Colonialism and the Dialectic of American Romance and American Realism
Literature, Law, and Freedom of Expression
LIT 4390 Don Quixote in European Literature
(Don Quixote, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Joseph Andrews (Selections), Madame Bovary, and "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote")
In my last as yet unspecified semester as an English Professor at UF, I may design and teach two courses on reading, one entitled "Closed Reading," on I.A. Richards, William Empson, and Stephen Booth; the other a companion course entitled "Closing in on Reading," on Paul de Man, Stephen Booth, and Jacques Derrida. Salut.
Spring 2025 LIT 4390 Early Auteurs of Slow Cinema: Kiarostammi, Dreyer, Bergman, Tarkovsky, von Trier
Spring 2025 LIT 4390 Memory and Modern Autobiography: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Proust, and Sebald
Spring 2025 LIT 4390 Romanticism and the Gothic
