Allan Stoekl - Professor of French and Comparative Literature
327 S.Burrowes Bldg.
Phone# 863-7499
ais3@psu.edu

Main Courses Taught

• FR 138 French Culture through Film (an introduction to gerneral problems of French Culture, refracted through French films of the last fifty years)
• FR 352 Introduction to French Literature, 1800-present.
• FR 460 Advanced undergraduate course, topics in contemporary French Literature (modern French novel, poetry)
• FR 570 Seminar in French Poetry (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Apollinaire, Artaud, Ponge)
• FR 571 Seminar in Literary Theory
• FR 572 Seminar, Contemporary French literature
• FR 597B French Film Culture: Readings in French film criticism and Theory, coordinated with the study and analysis of films contemporary with that criticism

Major Publications Recent articles

• "What the Nazis Saw: Les Mouches in Occupied Paris, "Sub-Stance, forthcoming
• "Caillois, avant et apres la guerre, " in Roger Caillois: Fragments, fractures, refractions d'une luvre, ed.
  Anmnamaria Laserra (Padua, Italy: Unipress, 2002):249-57
• "Hugo's Le Dernier jour d'un condamne: The End as Contamination" in "Post-Mortem: Death in the Nineteenth Century," ed. Jonathan Strauss, Diacritics 30, 3 (2000): 40-52.
• "Execution and Fiction, "in the anthology The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, ed. Mark Robson, Marquard Smith, and Joanne Morra (Manchester, IK: Manchester University Press, 2000): 167-97
• "On Procrastination, " Parallax 10 (1999): 36-38

Recent Translation Projects:

• Besoin de Velo (Need for the Bike), a book on the pleasures of cycling, by Paul Fournel, with a brief introduction by Allan Stoekl (Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming)
• Le Tres-Haut (The Most HIgh), a novel by Maurice Blanchot. Translated, with a critical introduction, by Allan Stoekl (Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1996)
  

Books and Book Projects:

• Bataille's Utopias. A rewriting of Georges Bataille's Accursed Share, set in the early twenty-first centrury. A reading through Bataille, of contemporary questions of energy use. ecology, religion, and eroticism.
• Film and reality. A series of readings of French film criticism--and the films contemporaneous with it--that focuses on the tradition in French film of the representation of reality.

Earlier Books

• Agonies of the Intellectual: Subjectivity, "Commitment," and teh Performative in the Twentieth Century French Tradition. (Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1992.)
• Politics, Writing, Mutilation: The Cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris and Ponge (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1985).
• French intellectual history and social theory of the twentieth century: their implications for thinking the twenty-first century.
• French film and its relations with French film theory.
• The question of sacrifice in French political, social, intellectual, and literary history.
• Translation theory and practic