 Associate Professor of English Office: Hellems 119 Telephone: 303-492-8930 E-mail: Eric.White@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Literary theory; literature and science; literature of the fantastic; history of rhetoric; modern British, Irish, and Continental literature
Education
Ph.D. (Rhetoric), University of California at Berkeley, 1983
M.A., Cambridge University, 1976
B.A., Columbia University, 1974
Publications
Book
Kaironomia: On the Will-to-Invent. Cornell Univ. Press, 1987
Essays
"Insects and Automata in Hoffmann, Balzac, Carter and del Toro." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 19:3 (2008): 363-378
"Case Study: Nakata Hideo's Ringu and Ringu 2" Japanese Horror Cinema. Ed. Jay McRoy. Univ. of Edinburgh Press, 2005, 38-47
"'Once They Were Men, Now They're Land Crabs': Monstrous Becomings in Evolutionist Cinema." Posthuman Bodies. Ed. Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston. Univ. of Indiana Press, 1995, 244-66
"Chance and Narrative in Musil and Buñuel." Chance, Culture, and the Literary Text. Ed. Thomas M. Kavanagh. 1994, 173-202. Rpt. in Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities" (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 2005, 51-74
"Kairos." The International Encyclopedia of Time. Ed. Samuel Macey. Garland, 1994, 332-33
"Lyotard's Neo-Sophistic Philosophy of Phrases."Poetics Today 15 (1994): 479-493. Rpt. in: J.F. Lyotard (SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought series), ed. Derek Robbins. SAGE Publications, 2004. Also rpt. in Jean-Francois Lyotard: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, ed. Gregg Lambert & Victor E. Taylor. Routledge, 2006, 490-503
"The Erotics of Becoming: Xenogenesis and The Thing." Science-Fiction Studies 20 (1993): 394-408
"Negentropy, Noise, and Emancipatory Thought." Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science, ed. N. Katherine Hayles . Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991, 263-77
"Serres's Revaluation of 'Chaos'." The New Orleans Review 18 (1991): 94-99
"Contemporary Cosmology and Narrative Theory." Literature and Science: Theory and Practice. Ed. Stuart Peterfreund. Northeastern Univ. Press, 1990, 91-112
"The End of Metanarratives in Evolutionary Biology." Modern Language Quarterly 51 (1990): 63-81
Journal issues edited
Special issue on "The Legacy of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)." The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 12.4 (2007)Selected honors and awards
Faculty Fellow, CU Boulder Center for Humanities and the Arts, 2005-2006. CHA topic: "Powers of Wonder"
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Harvard University Summer Institute for the Study of Avant-gardes, 1989. Institute topic: "The Future of the Avant-garde in Postmodern Culture"
Junior Faculty Fellowship, Cornell University Society for the Humanities, 1986-1987. Topic: "Science and the Humanities: A Reassessment"
Administrative positions
Chair, Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, 2001-2004Associate Chair, Department of English, 1998-1999
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 1995-1999
Current projects
A book exploring aesthetic implications of the concept of metamorphosis in modern literature, science, and the arts.