Professor of French
Lyons Hall 204C
Telephone: 617-552-8497
Email: kevin.newmark@bc.edu
Nineteenth and twentieth-century prose and poetry; literary theory, and the relations between literature and philosophy.
Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History), Special Co-Editor and Contributor, Yale French Studies 125 & 126, 2014.
Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers, by Paul de Man, ed. with E.S. Burt and Andrzej Warminski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, (Paperback reprint, 1996).
Aparté: Conceptions and Deaths of Søren Kierkegaard, by Sylviane Agacinski, translation from the French with Critical Introduction and Notes. Tallahassee: Florida State Press, 1988.
Phantom Proxies: Symbolism and the Rhetoric of History, Special Editor and Contributor, Yale French Studies 74, 1988.
Paul de Man, in Dictionnaire Maurice Blanchot, eds. Michael Holland and Hannes Opelz, Paris: Classiques Garnier, forthcoming, 2025.
Taking Care: Of Kierkegaard Incomparable Lily Discourses, in Kierkegaard and the Poetry of the Gospel: Essays on the Lily Discourses, eds. Frances Maughan-Brown and Rick Anthony Furtak, Bloomsbury Press, 2025, 219-234.
Le Monde est parti: Notes sur la littérature et la vraie vie (Lévinas, Rimbaud, Celan, Derrida), Parade sauvage, Revue détudes rimbaldiennes, Numéro 35, Winter, 2024, 147-174..
Parting Ways: With Werner Hamacher, Cultural Critique, No. 118, Winter, 2023, 172-216.
Baudelaire Other Passer-by, in Baudelaire and Other People, eds. Maria Scott and Alexandra Wettlauffer, LEsprit Créateur, 58:1, 2018, 17-31.
Now You See It, Now You Dont: Baudelaire ѴǻԾé,"Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 44:1-2, November, 2015, 1-24.
Reading as a Desperate Practice, in Poets as Readers, eds. Joseph Acquisto, Adrianna Paliyenko, and Catherine Witt. London: Institute of Modern Languages Research, Fall, 2015, 227-45.
For When the Time Comes: Poetry, Prose, Mourning, Yale French Studies (co-editor of special double issue, Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 200-217.
Responding To/Answering For: The Secret, by Jacques Derrida. Translation from the French. In Yale French Studies (Special Double Issue: Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 7-29.
"To Keep Intact the Secret: Sylviane Agacinski: Reading Kierkegaard," in Kierkegaard Influence on Philosophy: Francophone Philosophy, ed. Jon Stewart. Abington, Oxon: Ashgate Press, 2012, 1-21.
"Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing," in The Political Archive of Paul de Man: Property, Sovereignty and the Theotropic, ed. Martin McQuillan. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2012, 91-102.
"A Poetics of Sharing: Political Economy in a Prose Poem by Baudelaire,"Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, special Issue devoted to the work of Jacques Rancière, Guest Editor, Joseph Tanke, 15:2, Fall, 2011, 57-81.
"Who Needs Poetry? Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the Modernity of 'Le Cygne,'" Comparative Literature, 63:3, Summer, 2011, 269-290.
"Dark Freedom: On J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace," in Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, ed. Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi. New York: Routledge Press, 2011, 296-306.
Accomplir juste: La Lettre-Dédicace À Arsène Houssaye, Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2025.
Prose Poetry and the Right to a Modern Death: Baudelaire Une mort héroïque, Department of French, Columbia University, October, 2024.
His Master Voice: Nietzsche, Derrida, Otobiographies, Guest Lecture, Philosophy Seminar, College of the Holy Cross, September, 2024.
Vertiginous Possibilities: Paul de Man Semiology and Rhetorique, Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2024.
Secrets of a Modern Death: Baudelaire Une mort héroïque, Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, University College London, April 2024.
Black Before My Eyes: Reading, Believing, Loving in Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling, Guest Lecture, Philosophy Seminar, College of the Holy Cross, March, 2024.
Sans tête ni queue: La poèsie en Prose chez Baudelaire, Dartmouth in Paris Program, Reid Hall, Paris, February, 2024.
The Fiction of a Title: Balzac Adieu, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, November, 2023.
Kierkegaard Poetic Exemplars, Bi-weekly International Workshop (Zoom) on Kierkegaard four Discourses on the Lilies and the Birds, September-December, 2022.
Prose-Poetry and the Right to a Modern Death: Baudelaire "Une Mort héroïque, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Georgetown University, November, 2021.
Madame Bovary: le rien, lironie et la bêtise," Guest Lecture, Seminar: Pour une contre-modernité critique du dix-neuvième siècle," Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2021.
Je dis: une fleur! ellipsis," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Florida State University, November, 2019.
I say a flowerMallarmé, Blanchot, and the deadly power of language," Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, College of the Holy Cross, October, 2019
Shineless: Starring Baudelaire," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, UC Riverside and Scripps College, October, 2018.
The Personalization of Power: An Im-Personal Perspective," Venice International University, October, 2017.
Baudelaire Other Passer-by," Department of French, Yale University, April, 2017.
Baudelaire and Other People, Round-Table Discussion, Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, April, 2017.
Baudelaire Providence: Les Sept vieillards," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Brown University, October, 2016.
Spectral Bodies: Baudelaire Les Sept vieillards," Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, University of Kent/Reid Hall, Paris, April 2016.
Paul de Man and The Concept of Irony. Guest Lecture, Seminar: Postmoderne und Dekonstruktion in Deutschland?, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, March 22, 2016.
"Allegory in Tatters: 'Les Sept Vieillards," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, November, 2015.
Now You See It, Now You Dont: Baudelaire ѴǻԾé, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, October, 2015.
Getting Out of Hand: Baudelaire Thyrse," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of San Juan, October, 2014.
Allegorical Capital, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New York University, March, 2014.
What do we mean when we say allegory?, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Richmond, October, 2013.
Irony on Occasion: Beginning with Kierkegaard, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, February 19, 2013.
Poetry, Prose, Penury: What You See is What You Dont Get in Baudelaire Yeux des Pauvres, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, North Carolina State University, October, 2012.
Unbelievable: Jacques Derrida and Religion, Conference Organizer, Boston College, April 26-27, 2012.
The Unspeakable Secret: Traumatic Blanks in the Testimony of Maurice Blanchot Boston College Conference, After the Unthinkable: Trauma, Nachträglichkeit, and Coming to Terms," Boston College, March, 2012.